Psalms 29:1
{A Psalm of David.} Give unto Jehovah, ye sons of the mighty ones, give unto Jehovah glory and strength;
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto the LORD glory and strength.
In Context
2Give unto Jehovah the glory of his name; worship Jehovah in holy splendour.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 16:28Give unto Jehovah, ye families of peoples, Give unto Jehovah glory and strength!
Psalms 68:31Great ones shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall quickly stretch out her hands unto God.
Psalms 89:7God is greatly to be feared in the council of the saints, and terrible for all that are round about him.
Isaiah 60:12For the nation and the kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; and those nations shall be utterly wasted.
Revelation 5:11And I saw, and I heard [the] voice of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and the elders; and their number was ten thousands of ten thousands and 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 →