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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown · 1871
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown · 1871
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871). CCEL expanded electronic edition states it is in the public domain.
Psalms Chapter 29 1 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Psalms Chapter 29 2 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
2. name--as
(Ps 5:11; 8:1).
beauty of holiness--the loveliness of a spiritual worship, of which the perceptible beauty of the sanctuary worship was but a type.
Psalms Chapter 29 3 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
3. The voice of the Lord--audible exhibition of His power in the tempest, of which thunder is a specimen, but not the uniform or sole example.
the waters--the clouds or vapors
(Ps 18:11; Jer 10:13).
Psalms Chapter 29 4 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
4. powerful . . . majesty--literally, "in power, in majesty."
Psalms Chapter 29 5 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
5, 6. The tall and large cedars, especially of Lebanon, are shivered, utterly broken. The waving of the mountain forests before the wind is expressed by the figure of skipping or leaping.
Psalms Chapter 29 7 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
7. divideth--literally, "hews off." The lightning, like flakes and splinters hewed from stone or wood, flies through the air.
Psalms Chapter 29 8 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
8. the wilderness--especially Kadesh, south of Judea, is selected as another scene of this display of divine power, as a vast and desolate region impresses the mind, like mountains, with images of grandeur.
Psalms Chapter 29 9 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
9. Terror-stricken animals and denuded forests close the illustration. In view of this scene of awful sublimity, God's worshippers respond to the call of
Ps 29:2,
and speak or cry, "Glory!" By "temple," or "palace" (God's residence,
Ps 5:7),
may here be meant heaven, or the whole frame of nature, as the angels are called on for praise.
Ps 29:1-11.
Trust in God is encouraged by the celebration of His mighty power as illustrated in His dominion over the natural world, in some of its most terrible and wonderful exhibitions.
1. Give--or, "ascribe"
(De 32:3).
mighty--or, "sons of the mighty"
(Ps 89:6).
Heavenly beings, as angels.