Psalms 29:1
Ascribe to the Lord, you heavenly beings, ascribe to the Lord glory and power
Open English Bible (US)
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 he manifests: bow to the Lord in holy array.
Cross References
Psalms 68:31May they come from Egypt with gifts of oil, Ethiopia haste with full hands to God.
Psalms 89:7A God held in awe in the holy assembly, awful and great above all who are round him.
Revelation 5:11Then, in my vision, I heard the voices of many angels around the throne, and of the creatures, and of the elders. In number they were ten thousand times ten thousand 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 →