Psalms 29:8

_THE VOICE OF THE LORD SHAKETH THE WILDERNESS; THE LORD SHAKETH THE WILDERNESS OF KADESH._ Shaketh the wilderness. The wilderness expresses the idea of vastness and terror, such as Israel experienced it (Deuteronomy 1:19), "that great and terrible wilderness," 8:15; 32:10, "the waste, howling wilderness." Like the hills, the wilderness symbolizes the power of the world distressing the Church. 'The voice of Yahweh' shaking it, or making it to quiver, implies how every power which now afflicts God's people shall, at His will, be overthrown when He cometh to shake the earth and heaven (Hebrews 12:26; Haggai 2:6; Joel 3:16;...

Verse Psalms 29:8. _THE WILDERNESS OF KADESH._] This was on the frontiers of Idumea and Paran. There may be a reference to some terrible thunder-storm and earthquake which had occurred in that place....

SHAKETH THE WILDERNESS - Causes it to shake or to tremble. The word used here means properly to dance; to be whirled or twisted upon anything; to twist - as with pain - or, to writhe; and then, to tremble, to quake. The forests are made to tremble or quake in the fierceness of the storm - referring still to what the thunder seems to do. THE WILDERNESS OF KADESH - As in referring Psalms 29:5 to the effect of the storm on lofty trees, the psalmist had given poetic beauty to the description by “specifying” Lebanon and Sirion, so he here refers, for the same purpose, to a particular forest as illustrating the power of the tempest - to wit, the forest or wilderness of “Kadesh.” This wilderness or forest was on the southeastern border of the promised land, toward Edom; and it is memorable as having been the place where the Is

EXPOSITION THIS is a psalm of praise to God, and at the same time one intended to comfort and cheer his people. It consists of three parts: (1) An introduction (Psalms 29:1, Psalms 29:2), in which "the sons of the mighty" are called upon to praise and worship God; (2) a main body, in which the might of God is set forth by the description of a thunderstorm (Psalms 29:3); and (3) an application (Psalms 29:10, Psalms 29:11), in which the people are called upon to

THE VOICE OF THE LORD SHAKETH THE WILDERNESS,.... The ground of it, the trees in it, and the beasts that harbour there; and causes them to be in pain, and to bring forth their young, as the g word signifies, and as it is rendered in Psalms 29:9; all which effects thunder produces, and may mystically signify the preaching of the Gospel among the Gentiles, and the consequence of it. The Gentile world may be compared to a wilderness, and is called the wilderness of the people, Ezekiel 20:35; the inhabitants of it being ignorant, barren, and unfruitful; and the conversion of them is expressed by turning a wilderness into a fruitful land, Isaiah 35:1; and the Gospel being sent thither has been the means of shaking the

Psalms 29 The judgment Storm _ 1. Give unto the Lord the glory of His Name (Psalms 29:1)_ 2. The day of the Lord described as a thunderstorm (Psalms 29:3) 3. The calm after the storm--the Lord is King (Psalms 29:10) Psalms 29:1. The voice of His trusting people is hushed; His voice is now heard. From Psalms 25:1; Psalms 26:1;...

XXIX. Yahweh's glory in the storm (Psalms 29:1): He is enthroned for the protection of His people (Psalms 29:10 f.). PSALMS 29:1. THE SONS OF GOD (_mg._) are superhuman beings (_cf._ Genesis 6:1 *, Job 1:6 *) who minister in the heavenly Temple. Psalms 29:2_ b_. Follow _mg._ The LXX read, in his holy court. Psalms 29:6. Sirion is another name for Hermon

KADESH: i.e. Kadesh-Naphtali, near Lebanon (Psalms 29:6); not Kadeshbarnea....

The exhibition of Jehovah's power which is the ground of the opening call to praise. His voice is heard in the pealing of the thunder above the storm-clouds (Psalms 29:3); the storm bursts, it shatters the cedars and shakes the mountains in the far north (Psalms 29:5); the lightnings flash (Psalms 29:7); the deserts to the far south with their affrighted denizens tremble (Psalms 29:8); and over all resounds the chorus, Glory (Psalms 29:9 _b_). The seven times repeated _voice of the Lord_is like successive peals of thunder....

THE VOICE OF THE LORD DIVIDETH THE FLAMES, &C.— i.e. Casteth out several slashes of lightning: the original word חצב _chotseb_ signifies to _cut out, divide,_ or _distribute;_ so the _thunder,_ or, _the voice of the Lord,_ is said to send forth the lightning; which is, indeed, the precursor of the thunder; the cause and not the effect of it. The _thunder,_ however, or _voice of the Lord,_ is here with great beauty and propriety considered as that which commands and distributes the lightning. _Shaketh the wilderness,_ is rendered by Bishop Hare, _maketh the desart tremble._ Respecting _Kadesh,_ See Numbers 33:36....