Psalms 29:1
For the end, a Psalm and Song at the dedication of the house of David. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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 16:28Give to the Lord, ye families of the nations, 1 Give to the Lord glory and strength. 1
Psalms 68:31I will praise the name of my God with a song, 1 I will magnify him with praise; 1
Psalms 89:7For we have perished in thine anger, 1 And in thy wrath we have been troubled. 1
Isaiah 60:12For the nations and the kings which will not serve thee shall perish; and those nations shall be made utterly desolate.
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 →