Psalms 29:4

King James Version

The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.

Parallel Translations

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Contextual Overview

¹ Give unto the Lord , O ye mighty, give unto the Lord glory and strength. ² Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. ³ The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the Lord is upon many waters. ⁴ The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty. ⁵ The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars; yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon. ⁶ He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn. ⁷ The voice of the Lord divideth the flames of fire. ⁸ The voice of the Lord shaketh the wilderness; the Lord shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh. ⁹ The voice of the Lord maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory. ¹⁰ The Lord sitteth upon the flood; yea, the Lord sitteth King for ever.

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
And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.

Genesis 24:10
And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.

Genesis 27:43
Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;

Genesis 28:10
And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.

Acts 7:2
And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,

Acts 7:4
Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.

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.