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King James Version

Psalms 29:5

The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars; yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.

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

English Standard Version
The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars; the Lord breaks the cedars of Lebanon.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The voyce of the Lorde breaketh the cedars: yea, the Lorde breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.
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.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord 's voice shatters great cedar trees. The Lord breaks the great cedars of Lebanon.
Amplified Bible
The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; Yes, the LORD breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.
American Standard Version
The voice of Jehovah breaketh the cedars; Yea, Jehovah breaketh in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.
Contemporary English Version
The voice of the Lord destroys the cedar trees; the Lord shatters cedars on Mount Lebanon.
Complete Jewish Bible
The voice of Adonai cracks the cedars; Adonai splinters the cedars of the L'vanon
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.
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.
Berean Standard Bible
The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; the LORD shatters 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
New American Standard Bible
The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; Yes, the LORD breaks the cedars of Lebanon in pieces.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The voyce of God breaketh the Cedar trees: yea God breaketh the Cedars of Libanus.
New Revised Standard
The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars; the Lord breaks the cedars of Lebanon.
Darby Translation
The voice of Jehovah breaketh cedars; yea, Jehovah breaketh the cedars of Lebanon:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The vois of the Lord brekynge cedris; and the Lord schal breke the cedris of the Liban.
Young's Literal Translation
The voice of Jehovah [is] shivering cedars, Yea, Jehovah shivers the cedars of Lebanon.
World English Bible
The voice of Yahweh breaks the cedars. Yes, Yahweh breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.
Revised Standard Version
The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars, the LORD breaks the cedars of Lebanon.
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.
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.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The voyce of the LORDE is mightie in operacion, the voyce of the LORDE is a glorious voyce.
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.
Legacy Standard Bible
The voice of Yahweh breaks the cedars;Indeed, Yahweh breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.

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

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
And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.
Genesis 24:29
And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well.
Genesis 31:53
The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac.

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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