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NOTES for Psa 29

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1 Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto the LORD glory and strength.
2 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.
3 The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD is upon many waters.
4 The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.
5 The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.
6 He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.
7 The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire.
8 The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.
9 The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory.
10 The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever.
11 The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.
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The preceding psalm is a plea addressed to the Lord that He not remain silent. And now, giving glory to the Lord, the psalmist composes a hymn to His voice. This means that the composer of the psalms heard the voice of the Lord; He did not remain silent.

Yet the voice is so majestic that not everyone who hears it can withstand it. This voice, capable of shattering everything in creation, is compared to fearsome and untamable forces of nature. If such is the effect of God’s Voice alone, which merely hints at the Lord’s all-surpassing power, what can the effect of His power revealed in its fullness be?

It is beyond human comprehension to imagine the Lord’s might and majesty. Yet it was harder still to imagine that the Lord could reveal Himself not only in thunder and storm, but also in the whisper of a gentle breeze.

And days will come when His power will be manifested not only in visible might, but also in apparent weakness.

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For Psa 29:4
4 The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.
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The psalmist thanks God because He delivered him of a mortal danger, accompanied with spiritual decline and, probably, with depression. Is not it a completely real situation for us also nowadays? We also tend to call our experiences of troubles hell and to compare the exit from them with return to life...  Read more

The psalmist thanks God because He delivered him of a mortal danger, accompanied with spiritual decline and, probably, with depression. Is not it a completely real situation for us also nowadays? We also tend to call our experiences of troubles hell and to compare the exit from them with return to life.

But the psalm is not simply poetry, vivid expression of one’s feelings. It is prayer, and besides such prayer, on which several generations of believers learned to pray. And real prayer - is not self-expression, but communication, dialogue with God. It remains dialogue even when only Man pronounces words. The apostle Paul talks about such prayer that it is the Holy Spirit who prays in us with “groanings which cannot be uttered”, indeed the Holy Spirit intercedes us every truth. Here also, in the prayer that pronounces the psalmist, opens a truth exceeding his understanding: God really brings up the soul from the grave, He will really resuscitate the deaths. And we know that the fulfillment of this prediction has already begun.

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