Psalms 29:1
Give to Yahweh, ye sons of the mighty,—Give to Yahweh, [both] glory and strength:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto the LORD glory and strength.
In Context
2Give to Yahweh, the glory of his Name, Bow down to Yahweh, in the adornment of holiness.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 16:28Give to Yahweh, ye families of the peoples, Give to Yahweh, glory and strength:
Psalms 68:31Ambassadors come out of Egypt, The Ethiopian, eagerly stretcheth out his hands, unto God.
Psalms 89:7A GOD inspiring awe in the circle of the holy ones, exceedingly, And to be reverenced above all who are round about him.
Isaiah 60:12For, the nation and the kingdom that will not serve thee, shall perish,—Yea the nations, shall be utterly wasted.
Revelation 5:11And I saw, and heard a voice of many messengers, round about the throne and the living creatures and the elders,—and the number of them 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 →