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1 Ascribe to the Lord, O mighty ones,,
ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.
2 Ascribe to the Lord the glory due to his
name; worship the Lord in the splendour of
his[a] holiness.
3 The voice of the Lord is over the waters;
the God of glory thunders,
the Lord thunders over the mighty waters.
4 The voice of the Lord is powerful;
the voice of the Lord is majestic.
5 The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars;
the Lord breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.
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6 He makes Lebanon skip like a calf,
Sirion[b] like a young wild ox.
7 The voice of the Lord strikes
with flashes of lightning.
8 The voice of the Lord shakes the desert;
the Lord shakes the Desert of Kadesh.
9 The voice of the Lord twists the oaks[c]
and strips the forests bare.
And in his temple all cry, ‘Glory!’
10 The Lord sits enthroned over the flood;
the Lord is enthroned as King for ever.
11 The Lord gives strength to his people;
the Lord blesses his people with peace.
(NIV)
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Psalm 29 A thunderstorm is viewed in this psalm, not as a phenomenon of impersonal nature, but as an act of divine intervention. David opens the psalm by a call for praise to the Lord. Commentaries vary in their interpretation of the psalm from suggestions that David has heard God’s voice and David writes this psalm in praise of God who has spoken to him. God’s voice thunders, against the waters, it breaks the cedars, mountains quake, like flames of fire it strips, the forests are stripped bare. The psalm holds parallels to Ugaritic poems. Poems that are connected to the very early history of Israel. The psalm commentaries feel the psalm might be an adaptation of songs to Baal or Hadad. It is thought that this is a congregational hymn, that might be sung at an autumn festival, or at the closing festival of tabernacles praising God for their harvest.
We tend to forget how great God is, when we concentrate on Jesus and His life with us. Let us not forget the power of God, who made this earth and all that is in it. Who made winds and rains to fall and created seasons in their time. We should give thanks to God for our seasons as they come and go. As they give plants and trees the weather they need in due seasons.
It does give us something to wonder, what would we do when we hear God’s voice? will we shout with joy like David, or will we quake like the mountains, or shall we be stripped bare like the forests? It makes you think doesn’t it.
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