Psalms 29:1
A Canticle Psalm. In dedication to the house of David.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto the LORD glory and strength.
In Context
Cross References
1 Chronicles 16:28Bring to the Lord, O families of the peoples, bring to the Lord glory and dominion.
Psalms 68:31I will praise the name of God with a canticle, and I will magnify him with praise.
Psalms 89:7For, at your wrath, we have withered away, and we have been disturbed by your fury.
Isaiah 60:12For the nation and the kingdom that will not serve you will perish. And the Gentiles will be devastated by solitude.
Revelation 5:11And I saw, and I heard the voice of many Angels surrounding the throne and the living creatures and the elders, (and their number was thousands of thousands)
Matthew Henry on Psalms 29:1
It is the probable conjecture of some very good interpreters that David penned this psalm upon occasion, and just at the time, of a great storm of thunder, lightning, and rain, as the eighth psalm was his meditation in a moon-light night and the nineteenth in a sunny morning. It is good to take occasion from the sensible operations of God's power in the kingdom of nature to give glory to him. So composed was David, and so cheerful, even in a dreadful tempest, when others trembled, that then he penned this psalm;… Read the whole commentary →