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Scott's Reference Library
Psalm 29:1 through Psalm 29:11 (NIV)
1 Ascribe to the LORD, O mighty ones,
ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.
2 Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name;
worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness.
3 The voice of the LORD is over the waters;
the God of glory thunders,
the LORD thunders over the mighty waters.
4 The voice of the LORD is powerful;
the voice of the LORD is majestic.
5 The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars;
the LORD breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.
6 He makes Lebanon skip like a calf,
Sirion like a young wild ox.
7 The voice of the LORD strikes
with flashes of lightning.
8 The voice of the LORD shakes the desert;
the LORD shakes the Desert of Kadesh.
9 The voice of the LORD twists the oaks
and strips the forests bare.
And in his temple all cry, “Glory!”
10 The LORD sits enthroned over the flood;
the LORD is enthroned as King forever.
11 The LORD gives strength to his people;
the LORD blesses his people with peace.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSE 1
The mighty and honourable of the earth are especially bound to honour and
worship him; but, alas, few attempt to worship him in the beauty of holiness.
When we come before him as the Redeemer of sinners, in repentance faith, and
love, he will accept our defective services, pardon the sin that cleaves to
them, and approve of that measure of holiness which the Holy Spirit enables us
to exercise. We have here the nature of religious worship; it is giving to the
Lord the glory due to his name. We must be holy in all our religious services,
devoted to God, and to his will and glory. There is a beauty in holiness, and
that puts beauty upon all acts of worship. The psalmist here sets forth God’s
dominion in the kingdom of nature. In the thunder, and lightning, and storm, we
may see and hear his glory. Let our hearts be thereby filled with great, and
high, and honourable thoughts of God, in the holy adoring of whom, the power of
godliness so much consists. O Lord our God, thou art very great! The power of
the lightning equals the terror of the thunder. The fear caused by these effects
of the Divine power, should remind us of the mighty power of God, of man’s
weakness, and of the defenceless and desperate condition of the wicked in the
day of judgment. But the effects of the Divine word upon the souls of men, under
the power of the Holy Spirit, are far greater than those of thunder storms in
the nature world. Thereby the stoutest are made to tremble, the proudest are
cast down, the secrets of the heart are brought to light, sinners are converted,
the savage, sensual, and unclean, become harmless, gentle, and pure. If we have
heard God’s voice, and have fled for refuge to the hope set before us, let us
remember that children need not fear their Father’s voice, when he speaks in
anger to his enemies. While those tremble who are without shelter, let those who
abide in his appointed refuge bless him for their security, looking forward to
the day of judgment without dismay, safe as Noah in the ark.