Psalms 29:4

Complete Jewish Bible

the voice of Adonai in power, the voice of Adonai in splendor.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
the voice of the Lord in power,the voice of the Lord in splendor.

Hebrew Names Version
The voice of the LORD is powerful. The voice of the LORD is full of majesty.

King James Version
The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.

English Standard Version
The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.

New Century Version
The Lord 's voice is powerful; the Lord 's voice is majestic.

New English Translation
The Lord 's shout is powerful, the Lord 's shout is majestic.

Amplified Bible
The voice of the LORD is powerful; The voice of the LORD is full of majesty.

New American Standard Bible
The voice of the LORD is powerful, The voice of the LORD is majestic.

World English Bible
The voice of Yahweh is powerful. The voice of Yahweh is full of majesty.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The voyce of the Lorde is mightie: the voyce of the Lord is glorious.

Legacy Standard Bible
The voice of Yahweh is powerful,The voice of Yahweh is full of splendor.

Berean Standard Bible
The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is majestic.

Contemporary English Version
and his voice is mighty and marvelous.

Darby Translation
The voice of Jehovah is powerful; the voice of Jehovah is full of majesty.

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord 's voice is powerful. It shows the Lord 's glory.

George Lamsa Translation
The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.

Good News Translation
The voice of the Lord is heard in all its might and majesty.

Lexham English Bible
The voice of Yahweh is powerful. The voice of Yahweh is majestic.

Literal Translation
The voice of Jehovah is in power; the voice of Jehovah in majesty.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
it is the LORDE yt ruleth the see.

American Standard Version
The voice of Jehovah is powerful; The voice of Jehovah is full of majesty.

Bible in Basic English
The voice of the Lord is full of power; the voice of the Lord has a noble sound.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.

King James Version (1611)
The voice of the Lord is powerfull; the voyce of the Lord is full of Maiestie.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The voyce of God is with power: the voyce of God is with honour.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The voice of the Lord is mighty; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.

English Revised Version
The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The vois of the Lord in vertu; the vois of the Lord in greet doyng.

Update Bible Version
The voice of Yahweh is powerful; The voice of Yahweh is full of majesty.

Webster's Bible Translation
The voice of the LORD [is] powerful; the voice of the LORD [is] full of majesty.

New King James Version
The voice of the LORD is powerful; The voice of the LORD is full of majesty.

New Living Translation
The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is majestic.

New Life Bible
The voice of the Lord is powerful. The voice of the Lord is great.

New Revised Standard
The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The voice of Yahweh, is with power, The voice of Yahweh, is with majesty;

Douay-Rheims Bible
(28-4) The voice of the Lord is in power; the voice of the Lord in magnificence.

Revised Standard Version
The voice of the LORD is powerful, the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.

Young's Literal Translation
The voice of Jehovah [is] with power, The voice of Jehovah [is] with majesty,

THE MESSAGE
God 's thunder tympanic, God 's thunder symphonic.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The voice of the Lord is powerful, The voice of the Lord is majestic.

Contextual Overview

¹ A psalm of David: Give Adonai his due, you who are godly; give Adonai his due of glory and strength; ² give Adonai the glory due his name; worship Adonai in holy splendor. ³ The voice of Adonai is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, Adonai over rushing waters, ⁴ the voice of Adonai in power, the voice of Adonai in splendor. ⁵ The voice of Adonai cracks the cedars; Adonai splinters the cedars of the L'vanon ⁶ and makes the L'vanon skip like a calf, Siryon like a young wild ox. ⁷ The voice of Adonai flashes fiery flames; ⁸ the voice of Adonai rocks the desert, Adonai convulses the Kadesh Desert. ⁹ The voice of Adonai causes deer to give birth and strips the forests bare — while in his temple, all cry, "Glory!" ¹⁰ Adonai sits enthroned above the flood! Adonai sits enthroned as king forever!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

powerful: Heb. in power, Psalms 33:9, Job 26:11-14, Jeremiah 51:15, Jeremiah 51:16, Luke 4:36, Luke 8:25

full of: Heb. in, Job 40:9-12, Isaiah 66:6, Ezekiel 10:5

Reciprocal: Exodus 9:28 - mighty thunderings 1 Chronicles 29:11 - majesty Job 37:22 - with Psalms 18:13 - Highest Proverbs 17:8 - gift

Cross-References

Genesis 11:31
Terach took his son Avram, his son Haran's son Lot, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Avram's wife; and they left Ur of the Kasdim to go to the land of Kena‘an. But when they came to Haran, they stayed there.

Genesis 24:10
(iii) Then the servant took ten of his master's camels and all kinds of gifts from his master, got up and went to Aram-Naharayim, to Nachor's city.

Genesis 27:43
Therefore, my son, listen to me: get up and escape to Lavan my brother in Haran.

Genesis 28:10
So ‘Esav went to Yishma‘el and took, in addition to the wives he already had, Machalat the daughter of Yishma‘el Avraham's son, the sister of N'vayot, to be his wife. Haftarah Tol'dot: Mal'akhi (Malachi) 1:1–2:7 B'rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah Tol'dot: Romans 9:6–16; Messianic Jews (Hebrews) 11:20; 12:14–17 Ya‘akov went out from Be'er-Sheva and traveled toward Haran.

Acts 7:2
and Stephen said: "Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to Avraham avinu in Mesopotamia before he lived in Haran

Acts 7:4
So he left the land of the Kasdim and lived in Haran. After his father died, God made him move to this land where you are living now.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The voice of the Lord [is] powerful,.... Or "with power" a; as thunder, in the effect of it, shows; and so is the Gospel, when it comes, not in word only, but is attended with the power of God to the conversion and salvation of souls; it is then quick and powerful, Hebrews 4:12; and the word of Christ personal, when here on earth, was with power, Luke 4:32;

the voice of the Lord [is] full of majesty; Christ, in his state of humiliation, spake and taught as one having authority; and now, in the ministration of his Gospel by his servants, he goes forth with glory and majesty, Psalms 45:3.

a בכח "in potentia", Pagninus, Montanus; "cum potentia", Cocceius, Michaelis; "with able power", Ainsworth.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The voice of the Lord is powerful - Margin, as in Hebrew: “in power.” That is, is mighty; or, has strength. Allusion may be made to what seems to be the effect of thunder in prostrating trees, or tearing off their limbs, or it may be merely to the loud sound of the thunder.

Is full of majesty - Margin, as in Hebrew, “in majesty.” That is, it is grand, sublime, overpowering.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 29:4. Is powerful — There is no agent in universal nature so powerful as the electric fluid. It destroys life, tears castles and towers to pieces, rends the strongest oaks, and cleaves the most solid rocks: universal animate nature is awed and terrified by it. To several of these effects the psalmist here refers; and for the illustration of the whole I must refer to the above notes on Job.

Full of majesty. — No sound in nature is so tremendous and majestic as that of thunder; it is the most fit to represent the voice of God.