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Wednesday, November 27th, 2024
the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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New Living Translation

Psalms 29:4

The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is majestic.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God;   Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena;   Thompson Chain Reference - God's;   Majesty, God's;   Silence-Speech;   Voice;  

Dictionaries:

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

Encyclopedias:

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

Parallel Translations

English Revised 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.
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.
Webster's Bible Translation
The voice of the LORD [is] powerful; the voice of the LORD [is] full of majesty.
World English Bible
The voice of Yahweh is powerful. The voice of Yahweh is full of majesty.
Amplified Bible
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.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The vois of the Lord in vertu; the vois of the Lord in greet doyng.
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.
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.
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.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord 's voice is powerful. It shows the Lord 's glory.
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.
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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The voyce of the Lorde is mightie: the voyce of the Lord is glorious.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Young's Literal Translation
The voice of Jehovah [is] with power, The voice of Jehovah [is] with majesty,
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
The voice of the LORD is powerful, The voice of the LORD is majestic.
New King James Version
The voice of the LORD is powerful; The voice of the LORD is full of majesty.
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

A psalm of David.

Honor the Lord , you heavenly beings; honor the Lord for his glory and strength. 2 Honor the Lord for the glory of his name. Worship the Lord in the splendor of his holiness. 3 The voice of the Lord echoes above the sea. The God of glory thunders. The Lord thunders over the mighty sea. 4 The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is majestic. 5 The voice of the Lord splits the mighty cedars; the Lord shatters the cedars of Lebanon. 6 He makes Lebanon's mountains skip like a calf; he makes Mount Hermon leap like a young wild ox. 7 The voice of the Lord strikes with bolts of lightning. 8 The voice of the Lord makes the barren wilderness quake; the Lord shakes the wilderness of Kadesh. 9 The voice of the Lord twists mighty oaks and strips the forests bare. In his Temple everyone shouts, "Glory!" 10 The Lord rules over the floodwaters. The Lord reigns 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
One day Terah took his son Abram, his daughter-in-law Sarai (his son Abram's wife), and his grandson Lot (his son Haran's child) and moved away from Ur of the Chaldeans. He was headed for the land of Canaan, but they stopped at Haran and settled there.
Genesis 24:10
Then he loaded ten of Abraham's camels with all kinds of expensive gifts from his master, and he traveled to distant Aram-naharaim. There he went to the town where Abraham's brother Nahor had settled.
Genesis 27:43
So listen carefully, my son. Get ready and flee to my brother, Laban, in Haran.
Genesis 28:10
Meanwhile, Jacob left Beersheba and traveled toward Haran.
Acts 7:2
This was Stephen's reply: "Brothers and fathers, listen to me. Our glorious God appeared to our ancestor Abraham in Mesopotamia before he settled in Haran.
Acts 7:4
So Abraham left the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran until his father died. Then God brought him here to the land where you now live.

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.


 
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