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Psalm 29 Bible study: The LORD's voice
"The LORD’s voice" comes seven times in Psalm 29 (29:3-9). Its opening call, "Ascribe to the LORD … glory and strength" (29:1), comes again in Psalm 96:7 to the families of nations. And its Flood is the Hebrew word Genesis uses for the flood in Noah's time, found only once outside Genesis in the Hebrew Bible: here (29:10).
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“The LORD will give strength to his people. The LORD will bless his people with peace.”
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The LORD's voice, seven times
Psalm 29 is titled "A Psalm by David" (29:1). After two verses calling for glory, one phrase takes over: "The LORD’s voice is on the waters" (29:3) (tap voice). Here is what almost everyone misses: the WEB has "The LORD’s voice" seven times in 29:3-9, and in Hebrew each one is qol, voice, followed by the divine name. The voice "is powerful" and "is full of majesty" (29:4). It "breaks the cedars" (29:5), "strikes with flashes of lightning" (29:7), "shakes the wilderness" (29:8), and "makes the deer calve, and strips the forests bare" (29:9). Beside it the psalm says, "The God of glory thunders" (29:3) (tap thunders).
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- The same call, to others
- Where the voice goes
- From glory to peace
- Thunder and voice together
- Strength given, peace blessed
- A voice some said had thundered
- 6 questions as you read
- 12 more Hebrew words
- A short check at the end
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The Hebrew word behind it
קוֹלqolsay KOHL
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "sound, voice". Strong's: "a voice or sound". Psalm 29 has it seven times, and each time the divine name follows it: "The LORD’s voice" (29:3, 29:4 twice, 29:5, 29:7, 29:8, 29:9). It isn't in the psalm's first two verses or its last two. Psalm 18 has it with 29:3's verb for thunders: "The Most High uttered his voice" (Psalm 18:13). So does Job 37: "God thunders marvelously with his voice" (Job 37:5).
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Psalm 29 Bible study questions
- 1"Ascribe to the LORD the glory due to his name" (29:2). What would it look like for you to give him that glory this week, in what you say or in how you live?
- 2The psalm hears the LORD's voice breaking the cedars and shaking the wilderness (29:5, 29:8). When have you been most aware of how great God is?
- 3"The LORD will give strength to his people. The LORD will bless his people with peace" (29:11). Which do you need more right now, strength or peace? Why?
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