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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Psalms 29:4

The voice of Yahweh, is with power, The voice of Yahweh, is with majesty;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God;   Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena;   Thompson Chain Reference - God's;   Majesty, God's;   Silence-Speech;   Voice;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Glory;   Power;   Providence;   Revelation;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Glory;   Religion;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Thunder;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   Thunder;   Trinity;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Thunder;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Lebanon;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Adoration;   Cedar;   Number;   Omnipotence;   Psalms, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Demonology;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
the voice of the Lord in power,the voice of the Lord in splendor.
Hebrew Names Version
The voice of the LORD is powerful. The voice of the LORD is full of majesty.
King James Version
The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.
English Standard Version
The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.
New Century Version
The Lord 's voice is powerful; the Lord 's voice is majestic.
New English Translation
The Lord 's shout is powerful, the Lord 's shout is majestic.
Amplified Bible
The voice of the LORD is powerful; The voice of the LORD is full of majesty.
New American Standard Bible
The voice of the LORD is powerful, The voice of the LORD is majestic.
World English Bible
The voice of Yahweh is powerful. The voice of Yahweh is full of majesty.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The voyce of the Lorde is mightie: the voyce of the Lord is glorious.
Legacy Standard Bible
The voice of Yahweh is powerful,The voice of Yahweh is full of splendor.
Berean Standard Bible
The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is majestic.
Contemporary English Version
and his voice is mighty and marvelous.
Complete Jewish Bible
the voice of Adonai in power, the voice of Adonai in splendor.
Darby Translation
The voice of Jehovah is powerful; the voice of Jehovah is full of majesty.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord 's voice is powerful. It shows the Lord 's glory.
George Lamsa Translation
The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.
Good News Translation
The voice of the Lord is heard in all its might and majesty.
Lexham English Bible
The voice of Yahweh is powerful. The voice of Yahweh is majestic.
Literal Translation
The voice of Jehovah is in power; the voice of Jehovah in majesty.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
it is the LORDE yt ruleth the see.
American Standard Version
The voice of Jehovah is powerful; The voice of Jehovah is full of majesty.
Bible in Basic English
The voice of the Lord is full of power; the voice of the Lord has a noble sound.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.
King James Version (1611)
The voice of the Lord is powerfull; the voyce of the Lord is full of Maiestie.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The voyce of God is with power: the voyce of God is with honour.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The voice of the Lord is mighty; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.
English Revised Version
The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The vois of the Lord in vertu; the vois of the Lord in greet doyng.
Update Bible Version
The voice of Yahweh is powerful; The voice of Yahweh is full of majesty.
Webster's Bible Translation
The voice of the LORD [is] powerful; the voice of the LORD [is] full of majesty.
New King James Version
The voice of the LORD is powerful; The voice of the LORD is full of majesty.
New Living Translation
The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is majestic.
New Life Bible
The voice of the Lord is powerful. The voice of the Lord is great.
New Revised Standard
The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(28-4) The voice of the Lord is in power; the voice of the Lord in magnificence.
Revised Standard Version
The voice of the LORD is powerful, the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.
Young's Literal Translation
The voice of Jehovah [is] with power, The voice of Jehovah [is] with majesty,
THE MESSAGE
God 's thunder tympanic, God 's thunder symphonic.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The voice of the Lord is powerful, The voice of the Lord is majestic.

Contextual Overview

1 Give to Yahweh, ye sons of the mighty, - Give to Yahweh, both glory and strength: 2 Give to Yahweh, the glory of his Name, Bow down to Yahweh, in the adornment of holiness. 3 The voice of Yahweh, is upon the waters, - The GOD of glory, hath thundered, Yahweh, is upon mighty waters; 4 The voice of Yahweh, is with power, The voice of Yahweh, is with majesty; 5 The voice of Yahweh, is breaking cedars, Now hath Yahweh, broken down, the cedars of Lebanon! 6 And hath made them leap like a calf, Lebanon and Sirion, like the bull-calf of wild-oxen; 7 The voice of Yahweh, is cleaving out flames of fire; 8 The voice of Yahweh, bringeth birth-pains upon the wilderness; Yahweh bringeth birth-pains upon the wilderness of Kadesh! 9 The voice of Yahweh, causeth the gazelles to bring forth, and hath stript forests; and, in his own temple, every one there, is saying, Glory! 10 Yahweh, at the Flood, was seated, And Yahweh hath taken his seat, as king, unto times age-abiding.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

powerful: Heb. in power, Psalms 33:9, Job 26:11-14, Jeremiah 51:15, Jeremiah 51:16, Luke 4:36, Luke 8:25

full of: Heb. in, Job 40:9-12, Isaiah 66:6, Ezekiel 10:5

Reciprocal: Exodus 9:28 - mighty thunderings 1 Chronicles 29:11 - majesty Job 37:22 - with Psalms 18:13 - Highest Proverbs 17:8 - gift

Cross-References

Genesis 11:31
And Terah took Abram his son and Lot son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, wife of Abram his son, - and came forth with them out of Ur of the Chaldees, that they might go their way towards the land of Canaan, and they came in as far as Haran and dwelt there.
Genesis 24:10
Then took the servant ten camels, from among the camels of his lord, and went his way, - all the goods of his master being in his hand, - so be mounted, and went his way unto Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.
Genesis 27:43
Now, therefore, my son, hearken to my voice, - and rise flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;
Genesis 28:10
So Jacob went forth from Beer-sheba, and journeyed towards Haran.
Acts 7:2
And, he, said - Brethren and fathers, hearken! The God of Glory, appeared unto our father Abraham, while he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran, -
Acts 7:4
Then, coming forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, he dwelt in Haran; and, from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, in which, ye, now dwell;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The voice of the Lord [is] powerful,.... Or "with power" a; as thunder, in the effect of it, shows; and so is the Gospel, when it comes, not in word only, but is attended with the power of God to the conversion and salvation of souls; it is then quick and powerful, Hebrews 4:12; and the word of Christ personal, when here on earth, was with power, Luke 4:32;

the voice of the Lord [is] full of majesty; Christ, in his state of humiliation, spake and taught as one having authority; and now, in the ministration of his Gospel by his servants, he goes forth with glory and majesty, Psalms 45:3.

a בכח "in potentia", Pagninus, Montanus; "cum potentia", Cocceius, Michaelis; "with able power", Ainsworth.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The voice of the Lord is powerful - Margin, as in Hebrew: “in power.” That is, is mighty; or, has strength. Allusion may be made to what seems to be the effect of thunder in prostrating trees, or tearing off their limbs, or it may be merely to the loud sound of the thunder.

Is full of majesty - Margin, as in Hebrew, “in majesty.” That is, it is grand, sublime, overpowering.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 29:4. Is powerful — There is no agent in universal nature so powerful as the electric fluid. It destroys life, tears castles and towers to pieces, rends the strongest oaks, and cleaves the most solid rocks: universal animate nature is awed and terrified by it. To several of these effects the psalmist here refers; and for the illustration of the whole I must refer to the above notes on Job.

Full of majesty. — No sound in nature is so tremendous and majestic as that of thunder; it is the most fit to represent the voice of God.


 
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