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Complete Jewish Bible

Psalms 29:5

The voice of Adonai cracks the cedars; Adonai splinters the cedars of the L'vanon

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Lebanon;   Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena;   Power;   Thompson Chain Reference - Cedars;   God's;   Silence-Speech;   Trees;   Voice;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Cedar, the;   Lebanon;   Power of God, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Power;   Providence;   Revelation;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Religion;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Cedar;   Lebanon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Thunder;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Cedar;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   Thunder;   Trinity;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Lebanon ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Leb'anon,;   Thunder;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Cedar;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Lebanon;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Adoration;   Cedar;   Glory;   Number;   Omnipotence;   Psalms, Book of;   Wild-Ox;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Demonology;   Lebanon;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars;the Lord shatters the cedars of Lebanon.
Hebrew Names Version
The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars. Yes, the LORD breaks in pieces the cedars of Levanon.
King James Version
The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars; yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.
English Standard Version
The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars; the Lord breaks the cedars of Lebanon.
New Century Version
The Lord 's voice breaks the trees; the Lord breaks the cedars of Lebanon.
New English Translation
The Lord 's shout breaks the cedars, the Lord shatters the cedars of Lebanon.
Amplified Bible
The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; Yes, the LORD breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.
New American Standard Bible
The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; Yes, the LORD breaks the cedars of Lebanon in pieces.
World English Bible
The voice of Yahweh breaks the cedars. Yes, Yahweh breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The voyce of the Lorde breaketh the cedars: yea, the Lorde breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.
Legacy Standard Bible
The voice of Yahweh breaks the cedars;Indeed, Yahweh breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.
Berean Standard Bible
The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; the LORD shatters the cedars of Lebanon.
Contemporary English Version
The voice of the Lord destroys the cedar trees; the Lord shatters cedars on Mount Lebanon.
Darby Translation
The voice of Jehovah breaketh cedars; yea, Jehovah breaketh the cedars of Lebanon:
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord 's voice shatters great cedar trees. The Lord breaks the great cedars of Lebanon.
George Lamsa Translation
The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; yea, the LORD breaks the cedars of Lebanon.
Good News Translation
The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars, even the cedars of Lebanon.
Lexham English Bible
The voice of Yahweh breaks the cedars. Yahweh shatters even the cedars of Lebanon.
Literal Translation
The voice of Jehovah breaks the cedars; yea, Jehovah breaks Lebanon's cedars.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The voyce of the LORDE is mightie in operacion, the voyce of the LORDE is a glorious voyce.
American Standard Version
The voice of Jehovah breaketh the cedars; Yea, Jehovah breaketh in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.
Bible in Basic English
By the voice of the Lord are the cedar-trees broken, even the cedars of Lebanon are broken by the Lord.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.
King James Version (1611)
The voyce of the Lord breaketh the Cedars: yea, the Lord breaketh the Cedars of Lebanon.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The voyce of God breaketh the Cedar trees: yea God breaketh the Cedars of Libanus.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
There is the voice of the Lord who breaks the cedars; the Lord will break the cedars of Libanus.
English Revised Version
The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The vois of the Lord brekynge cedris; and the Lord schal breke the cedris of the Liban.
Update Bible Version
The voice of Yahweh breaks the cedars; Yes, Yahweh breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.
Webster's Bible Translation
The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yes, the LORD breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.
New King James Version
The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars, Yes, the LORD splinters the cedars of Lebanon.
New Living Translation
The voice of the Lord splits the mighty cedars; the Lord shatters the cedars of Lebanon.
New Life Bible
The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars. Yes, the Lord breaks in pieces the tall cedars of Lebanon.
New Revised Standard
The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars; the Lord breaks the cedars of Lebanon.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The voice of Yahweh, is breaking cedars, Now hath Yahweh, broken down, the cedars of Lebanon!
Douay-Rheims Bible
(28-5) The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars: yea, the Lord shall break the cedars of Libanus.
Revised Standard Version
The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars, the LORD breaks the cedars of Lebanon.
Young's Literal Translation
The voice of Jehovah [is] shivering cedars, Yea, Jehovah shivers the cedars of Lebanon.
THE MESSAGE
God 's thunder smashes cedars, God topples the northern cedars.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars; Yes, the Lord breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.

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

Isaiah 2:13

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 5:6 - cedar trees Job 9:17 - For he Psalms 89:16 - name Psalms 104:16 - General Ezekiel 27:5 - cedars Nahum 1:5 - mountains

Cross-References

Genesis 24:24
She answered, "I am the daughter of B'tu'el the son Milkah bore to Nachor,"
Genesis 24:29
Rivkah had a brother named Lavan. When he saw the nose-ring, and the bracelets on his sister's wrists besides, and when he heard his sister Rivkah's report of what the man had said to her, he ran out to the spring and found the man standing there by the camels.
Genesis 31:53
May the God of Avraham and also the god of Nachor, the god of their father, judge between us." But Ya‘akov swore by the One his father Yitz'chak feared.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars,.... Such an effect thunder has upon the tallest, strongest, and largest trees, as to break them into shivers;

yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon; a mountain in the north part of the land of Judea, so called from its whiteness, both by reason of the snow with which some part of it is covered in summer, as Tacitus observes b; and partly from the colour of the earth that has no snow on it, which looks as white as if it was covered with white tiles, as Maundrell c says; and where the goodliest cedars grow; and to which may be compared proud, haughty, lofty, and stouthearted sinners, who are broken, brought down, and laid low, by the voice of Christ in his Gospel, his power attending it. The Targum renders it, "the Word of the Lord".

b Hist. l. 5. c. 6. c Travels, p. 176.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Breaketh the cedars - The thunder prostrates the lofty trees of the forest. The psalmist speaks as things appeared, attributing, as was natural, and as was commonly done, that to the thunder which was really produced by the lightning. It, is now fully known that the effect here referred to is not produced by thunder, but by the rapid passage of the electric fluid as it passes from the cloud to the earth. that power is so great as to rive the oak or the cedar; to twist off their limbs; to prostrate their lofty trunks to the ground. The psalmist speaks of thunder as accomplishing this, in the same way that the sacred writers and all men, even scientific men, commonly speak, as when we say, the sun rises and sets - the stars rise and set, etc. People who would undertake in all cases to speak with scientific accuracy, or in the strict language of science, would be unintelligible to the mass of mankind; perhaps on most subjects they would soon cease to speak at all - since they themselves would be in utter doubt as to what is scientific accuracy. People who require that a revelation from God should always use language of strict scientific precision, really require that a revelation should anticipate by hundreds or thousands of years the discoveries of science, and use language which, when the revelation was given, would be unintelligible to the mass of mankind; nay, which would be always unintelligible to a large portion of the race - since people ordinarily, however much the exact truths of science may be diffused, do not learn to use such exactness of speech. As long as men have occasion to speak on the subject at all they will probably continue to say that the sun rises and sets; that the grass grows; and that water runs.

Breaketh the cedars of Lebanon - “Cedars are mentioned as the loftiest forest trees, and those of Lebanon as the loftiest of their species.” - “Prof. Alexander.” The cedars of Lebanon are often referred to in the Scriptures as remarkable for their size and grandeur: 1 Kings 4:33; 1 Kings 5:6; Psalms 92:12; Ezra 3:7.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 29:5. Breaketh the cedars — Very tall trees attract the lightning from the clouds, by which they are often torn to pieces. Woods and forests give dreadful proof of this after a thunderstorm.


 
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