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size="1">ORD</font> glory and strength. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/29-2.htm" target="_top"><b>2</b></a></span>Ascribe to the L<font size="1">ORD</font> the glory due to His name;<br>         Worship the L<font size="1">ORD</font> in holy array. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/29-3.htm" target="_top"><b>3</b></a></span>The voice of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> is upon the waters;<br>         The God of glory thunders,<br>         The L<font size="1">ORD</font> is over many waters. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/29-4.htm" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span>The voice of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> is powerful,<br>         The voice of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> is majestic. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/29-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>The voice of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> breaks the cedars;<br>         Yes, the L<font size="1">ORD</font> breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/29-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>He makes Lebanon skip like a calf,<br>         And Sirion like a young wild ox. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/29-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>The voice of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> hews out flames of fire. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/29-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>The voice of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> shakes the wilderness;<br>         The L<font size="1">ORD</font> shakes the wilderness of Kadesh. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/29-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>The voice of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> makes the deer to calve<br>         And strips the forests bare;<br>         And in His temple everything says, Glory! <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/29-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>The L<font size="1">ORD</font> sat <i>as King</i> at the flood;<br>         Yes, the L<font size="1">ORD</font> sits as King forever. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/29-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>The L<font size="1">ORD</font> will give strength to His people;<br>         The L<font size="1">ORD</font> will bless His people with peace.<p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/psalms/29.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Ascribe unto Jehovah, O ye sons of the mighty, Ascribe unto Jehovah glory and strength.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/psalms/29.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />A psalm for David, at the finishing of the tabernacle. Bring to the Lord, O ye children of God: bring to the Lord the offspring of rams. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/psalms/29.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />{A Psalm of David.} Give unto Jehovah, ye sons of the mighty ones, give unto Jehovah glory and strength;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/psalms/29.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />A Psalm of David. Give unto the LORD, O ye sons of the mighty, give unto the LORD glory and strength.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/psalms/29.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />A Psalm of David. Give to the LORD, O ye mighty, give to the LORD glory and strength.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/psalms/29.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Ascribe to Yahweh, you sons of the mighty, ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/psalms/29.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> A Psalm of David. Ascribe to Jehovah, ye sons of the mighty, Ascribe to Jehovah honour and strength.<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/march_25_the_beauty_of.htm">March 25. "The Beauty of Holiness" (Ps. xxix. 2). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"The beauty of holiness" (Ps. xxix. 2). Some one remarked once that he did not know more disagreeable people than sanctified Christians. He probably meant people that only profess sanctification. There is an angular, hard, unlovely type of Christian character that is not true holiness; at least, not the highest type of it. It is the skeleton without the flesh covering; it is the naked rock without the vines and foliage that cushion its rugged sides. Jesus was not only virtuous and pure, but He was <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/march_25_the_beauty_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson—</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/murray/holy_in_christ/note_c_the_holiness_of.htm">Note C. The Holiness of God. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">There is not a word so exclusively scriptural, so distinctly Divine, as the word holy in its revelation and its meaning. As a consequence of this its Divine origin, it is a word of inexhaustible significance. There is not one of the attributes of God which theologians have found it so difficult to define, or concerning which they differ so much. A short survey of the various views that have been taken may teach us how little the idea of the Divine Holiness can be comprehended or exhausted by human <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/murray/holy_in_christ/note_c_the_holiness_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Andrew Murray—</span><span class="citation2">Holy in Christ</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_2_1856/the_majestic_voice.htm">The Majestic Voice</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"The God that rules on high, And thunders when he please, That rides upon the stormy sky And manages the seas; This awful God is ours, Our Father and our love, He shall send down his heavenly powers To carry us above." He is our God, and I like to sing that, and think of it: but there is something so terrible in the tone of that voice when God is speaking, something so terrific to other men, and humbling to the Christian, that he is obliged to sink very low in his own estimation; then he looks up <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_2_1856/the_majestic_voice.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 2: 1856</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bevan/hymns_of_ter_steegen_and_others_second_series/a_song_of_the_temple.htm">A Song of the Temple</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"In His Temple doth every one speak of His glory."--Ps. xxix. 9. R. Rolle, 1349. tr., Emma Frances Bevan, 1899 In Thy tabernacle, Lord, I offer Sacrifice of psalmody and song-- Thine uncounted mercies there recalling, Praising Thee with music sweet and strong. With a marvellous, a mighty gladness, For the love of Christ is shed abroad In the soul that is His holy temple, And she singeth therefore unto God. She ascends aloft to join the singing, Heard afar from God's Jerusalem-- [2] Blessed music <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bevan/hymns_of_ter_steegen_and_others_second_series/a_song_of_the_temple.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Frances Bevan—</span><span class="citation2">Hymns of Ter Steegen and Others (Second Series)</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kempis/imitation_of_christ/chapter_xiv_of_meditation_upon.htm">Of Meditation Upon the Hidden Judgments of God, that we May not be Lifted up Because of Our Well-Doing</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Thou sendest forth Thy judgments against me, O Lord, and shakest all my bones with fear and trembling, and my soul trembleth exceedingly. I stand astonished, and remember that the heavens are not clean in thy sight.(1) If Thou chargest Thine angels with folly, and didst spare them not, how shall it be unto me? Stars have fallen from heaven, and what shall I dare who am but dust? They whose works seemed to be praiseworthy, fell into the lowest depths, and they who did eat Angels' food, them have <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kempis/imitation_of_christ/chapter_xiv_of_meditation_upon.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Thomas A Kempis—</span><span class="citation2">Imitation of Christ</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/the_life_and_times_of_jesus_the_messiah/appendix_xvi_on_the_jewish.htm">Appendix xvi. On the Jewish views About Demons' and the Demonised,' Together with Some Notes on the Intercourse Between Jews and Jewish Christians in the First Centuries. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">IT is not, of course, our purpose here to attempt an exhaustive account of the Jewish views on demons' and the demonised.' A few preliminary strictures were, however, necessary on a work upon which writers on this subject have too implictly relied. I refer to Gfrörer's Jahrhundert des Heils (especially vol. i. pp. 378-424). Gfrörer sets out by quoting a passage in the Book of Enoch on which he lays great stress, but which critical inquiries of Dillmann and other scholars have shown to be <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/the_life_and_times_of_jesus_the_messiah/appendix_xvi_on_the_jewish.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alfred Edersheim—</span><span class="citation2">The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/leo/writings_of_leo_the_great/part_iv_how_the_preacher.htm">How the Preacher, when He Has Accomplished all Aright, Should Return to Himself, Lest Either his Life or his Preaching Lift Him Up. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">But since often, when preaching is abundantly poured forth in fitting ways, the mind of the speaker is elevated in itself by a hidden delight in self-display, great care is needed that he may gnaw himself with the laceration of fear, lest he who recalls the diseases of others to health by remedies should himself swell through neglect of his own health; lest in helping others he desert himself, lest in lifting up others he fall. For to some the greatness of their virtue has often been the occasion <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/leo/writings_of_leo_the_great/part_iv_how_the_preacher.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Leo the Great—</span><span class="citation2">Writings of Leo the Great</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/ayer/a_source_book_for_ancient_church_history/period_ii_the_church_from.htm">Period ii. The Church from the Permanent Division of the Empire Until the Collapse of the Western Empire and the First Schism Between the East and the West, or Until About A. D. 500</a><br></span><span class="snippet">In the second period of the history of the Church under the Christian Empire, the Church, although existing in two divisions of the Empire and experiencing very different political fortunes, may still be regarded as forming a whole. The theological controversies distracting the Church, although different in the two halves of the Graeco-Roman world, were felt to some extent in both divisions of the Empire and not merely in the one in which they were principally fought out; and in the condemnation <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/ayer/a_source_book_for_ancient_church_history/period_ii_the_church_from.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Joseph Cullen Ayer Jr., Ph.D.—</span><span class="citation2">A Source Book for Ancient Church History</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/duff/the_bible_in_its_making/chapter_iv_the_history_books.htm">The History Books</a><br></span><span class="snippet">[Illustration: (drop cap T) Assyrian idol-god] Thus little by little the Book of God grew, and the people He had chosen to be its guardians took their place among the nations. A small place it was from one point of view! A narrow strip of land, but unique in its position as one of the highways of the world, on which a few tribes were banded together. All around great empires watched them with eager eyes; the powerful kings of Assyria, Egypt, and Babylonia, the learned Greeks, and, in later times, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/duff/the_bible_in_its_making/chapter_iv_the_history_books.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Mildred Duff—</span><span class="citation2">The Bible in its Making</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/basil/basil_letters_and_select_works/ii_exegetic.htm">Exegetic. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">(i) As of the De Spiritu Sancto, so of the Hexæmeron, no further account need be given here. It may, however, be noted that the Ninth Homily ends abruptly, and the latter, and apparently more important, portion of the subject is treated of at less length than the former. Jerome [472] and Cassiodorus [473] speak of nine homilies only on the creation. Socrates [474] says the Hexæmeron was completed by Gregory of Nyssa. Three orations are published among Basil's works, two on the creation <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/basil/basil_letters_and_select_works/ii_exegetic.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Basil—</span><span class="citation2">Basil: Letters and Select Works</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/watson/a_body_of_divinity/1_mans_chief_end.htm">Man's Chief End</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Q-I: WHAT IS THE CHIEF END OF MAN? A: Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him for ever. Here are two ends of life specified. 1: The glorifying of God. 2: The enjoying of God. I. The glorifying of God, I Pet 4:4: That God in all things may be glorified.' The glory of God is a silver thread which must run through all our actions. I Cor 10:01. Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.' Everything works to some end in things natural and artificial; <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/watson/a_body_of_divinity/1_mans_chief_end.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Thomas Watson—</span><span class="citation2">A Body of Divinity</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/psalms/29-1.htm">Psalm 29:1 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/psalms/29-1.htm">Psalm 29:1 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/psalms/29-1.htm">Psalm 29:1 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/psalms/29-1.htm">Psalm 29:1 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/psalms/29-1.htm">Psalm 29:1 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/psalms/29-1.htm">Psalm 29:1 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/psalms/29-1.htm">Psalm 29:1 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../psalms/28-9.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Psalm 28:9"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Psalm 28:9" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../psalms/29-2.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Psalm 29:2"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Psalm 29:2" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/psalms/29-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>