Psalms 29:1
A Psalm of David. Ascribe to the LORD, O heavenly beings, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto the LORD glory and strength.
In Context
2Ascribe to the LORD the glory due His name; worship the LORD in the splendor of His holiness.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 16:28Ascribe to the LORD, O families of the nations, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.
Psalms 68:31Envoys will arrive from Egypt; Cush will stretch out her hands to God.
Psalms 89:7In the council of the holy ones, God is greatly feared, and awesome above all who surround Him.
Isaiah 60:12For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will perish; it will be utterly destroyed.
Revelation 5:11Then I looked, and I heard the voices of many angels encircling the throne and the living creatures and the elders, and their number was myriads of myriads 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 →