Psalms 29:4

Easy-to-Read Version

The Lord 's voice is powerful. It shows the Lord 's glory.

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.

Complete Jewish Bible
the voice of Adonai in power, the voice of Adonai in splendor.

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

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

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A song of David.

Praise the Lord , you heavenly angels! Praise the Lord 's glory and power. ² Praise the Lord and honor his name! Worship the Lord in all his holy beauty. ³ The Lord 's voice can be heard over the sea. The voice of our glorious Lord God is like thunder over the great ocean. ⁴ The Lord 's voice is powerful. It shows the Lord 's glory. ⁵ The Lord 's voice shatters great cedar trees. The Lord breaks the great cedars of Lebanon. ⁶ He makes Lebanon shake like a young calf dancing. Sirion trembles like a young bull jumping up and down. ⁷ The Lord 's voice cuts the air with flashes of lightning. ⁸ The Lord 's voice shakes the desert. The desert of Kadesh trembles at the Lord 's voice. ⁹ The Lord 's voice frightens the deer. He destroys the forests. In his temple everyone shouts, "Glory to God!" ¹⁰ The Lord ruled as king at the time of the flood, and the Lord will rule 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
Terah took his family and left Ur of Babylonia. They planned to travel to Canaan. Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (Haran's son), and his daughter-in-law Sarai (Abram's wife). They traveled to the city of Haran and decided to stay there.

Genesis 24:10
The servant took ten of Abraham's camels and left that place. The servant carried with him many different kinds of beautiful gifts. He went to Mesopotamia, to Nahor's city.

Genesis 27:43
So, son, do what I say. My brother Laban is living in Haran. Go to him and hide.

Genesis 28:10
Jacob left Beersheba and went to Haran.

Acts 7:2
Stephen answered, "My Jewish fathers and brothers, listen to me. Our great and glorious God appeared to Abraham, our ancestor, when he was in Mesopotamia. This was before he lived in Haran.

Acts 7:4
"So Abraham left the country of Chaldea. He went to live in Haran. After his father died, God sent him to this place, where you live 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.