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Text -- Psalms 29:11 (NET)

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29:11 The Lord gives his people strength; the Lord grants his people security.
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JFB: Psa 29:10-11 - -- Over this terrible raging of the elements God is enthroned, directing and restraining by sovereign power; and hence the comfort of His people. "This a...

Over this terrible raging of the elements God is enthroned, directing and restraining by sovereign power; and hence the comfort of His people. "This awful God is ours, our Father and our Love."

Clarke: Psa 29:11 - -- The Lord will give strength - Prosperity in our secular affairs; success in our enterprises; and his blessing upon our fields and cattle

The Lord will give strength - Prosperity in our secular affairs; success in our enterprises; and his blessing upon our fields and cattle

Clarke: Psa 29:11 - -- The Lord will bless his people with peace - Give them victory over their enemies, and cause the nations to be at peace with them; so that they shall...

The Lord will bless his people with peace - Give them victory over their enemies, and cause the nations to be at peace with them; so that they shall enjoy uninterrupted prosperity. The plentiful rain which God has now sent is a foretaste of his future blessings and abundant mercies

In the note on Psa 29:10 I have referred to the following description taken from Virgil. Did he borrow some of the chief ideas in it from the 29th Psalm? The reader will observe several coincidences

Interea magno misceri murmure pontum

Emissamque hyemem sensit Neptunus, et imi

Stagna refusa vadis: graviter commotus, et alt

Prospiciens, summa placidum caput extulit unda

Disjectam Aeneae toto videt aequore classem

Fluctibus oppressos Troas, coelique ruina

Eurum ad se zephyrumque vocat: dehinc talia fatu

Sic ait: et dicto citius tumida aequora placat

Collectasque fugat nubes, solemque reducit

Cymothoe simul, et Triton adnixus acut

Detrudunt naves scopulo; levat ipse tridenti

Et vastas aperit syrtes, et temperat aequor

Atque rotis summas levibus perlabitur undas

Sic cunctus pelagi cecidit fragor, aequora postqua

Prospiciens genitor, caeloque invectus aperto

Flectit equos, curruque volans dat lora secundo

Aen. lib. i., ver. 124

"Mean time, imperial Neptune heard the soun

Of raging billows breaking on the ground

Displeased, and fearing for his watery reign

He rears his awful head above the main

Serene in majesty; then rolled his eye

Around the space of earth, of seas, and skies

He saw the Trojan fleet dispersed, distressed

By stormy winds and wintry heaven oppressed

He summoned Eurus and the Western Blast

And first an angry glance on both he cast

Then thus rebuked

He spoke; and while he spoke, he soothed the sea

Dispelled the darkness, and restored the day

Cymothoe, Triton, and the sea-green trai

Of beauteous nymphs, and daughters of the main

Clear from the rocks the vessels with their hands

The god himself with ready trident stands

And opes the deep, and spreads the moving sands

Then heaves them off the shoals: where’ er he guide

His finny coursers, and in triumph rides

The waves unruffle, and the sea subsides

So when the father of the flood appears

And o’ er the seas his sovereign trident rears

Their fury fails: he skims the liquid plain

High on his chariot; and with loosened reins

Majestic moves along, and awful peace maintains

Dryden

Our God, Jehovah, sitteth upon the flood: yea, Jehovah sitteth King for ever

The heathen god is drawn by his sea-horse, and assisted in his work by subaltern deities: Jehovah sits on the flood an everlasting Governor, ruling all things by his will, maintaining order, and dispensing strength and peace to his people. The description of the Roman poet is fine; that of the Hebrew poet, majestic and sublime

Calvin: Psa 29:11 - -- 11.Jehovah will give strength to his people He returns to his former doctrine, namely, that although God exhibits his visible power to the view of th...

11.Jehovah will give strength to his people He returns to his former doctrine, namely, that although God exhibits his visible power to the view of the whole world indiscriminately, yet he exerts it in a peculiar manner in behalf of his elect people. Moreover, he here describes him in a very different manner from what he did formerly; that is to say, not as one who overwhelms with fear and dread those to whom he speaks, but as one who upholds, cherishes, and strengthens them. By the word strength is to be understood the whole condition of man. And thus he intimates that every thing necessary to the preservation of the life of the godly depends entirely upon the grace of God. He amplifies this by the word bless; for God is said to bless with peace those whom he treats liberally and kindly, so that nothing is awanting to the prosperous course of their life, and to their complete happiness. From this we may learn, that we ought to stand in awe of the majesty of God, in such a manner as, notwithstanding, to hope from him all that is necessary to our prosperity; and let us be assuredly persuaded, that since his power is infinite, we are defended by an invincible fortress.

TSK: Psa 29:11 - -- give : Psa 28:8, Psa 28:9, Psa 68:35, Psa 84:7, Psa 85:8, Psa 85:10, Psa 138:3; Isa 40:29, Isa 40:31, Isa 41:10; Zec 10:6, Zec 10:12; Eph 3:16; 2Ti 4:...

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Barnes: Psa 29:11 - -- The Lord will give strength unto his people - This is a practical application of the sentiments of the psalm, or a conclusion which is fairly t...

The Lord will give strength unto his people - This is a practical application of the sentiments of the psalm, or a conclusion which is fairly to be derived from the main thought in the psalm. The idea is, that the God who presides over the tempest and the storm, the God who has such power, and can produce such effects, is abundantly able to uphold His people, and to defend them. In other words, the application of such amazing power will be to protect His people, and to save them from danger. When we look on the rolling clouds in the tempest, when we hear the roaring of the thunder, and see the flashing of the lightning, when we hear the oak crash on the hills, and see the waves piled mountains high, if we feel that God presides over all, and that He controls all this with infinite ease, assuredly we have no occasion to doubt that He can protect us; no reason to fear that His strength cannot support us.

The Lord will bless his people with peace - They have nothing to fear in the tempest and storm; nothing to fear from anything. He will bless them with peace in the tempest; He will bless them with peace through that power by which He controls the tempest. Let them, therefore, not fear in the storm, however fiercely it may rage; let them not be afraid in any of the troubles and trials of life. in the storm, and in those troubles and trials, he can make the mind calm; beyond those storms and those troubles he can give them eternal peace in a world where no "angry tempest blows."

Poole: Psa 29:11 - -- The Lord will give strength to support and preserve them in the most dreadful tempests, and consequently in all other dangers, and against all their ...

The Lord will give strength to support and preserve them in the most dreadful tempests, and consequently in all other dangers, and against all their enemies.

The Lord will bless his people with peace though now he sees fit to exercise them with some troubles.

Haydock: Psa 29:11 - -- The Lord. Hebrew points determine, "Lord, hear," &c. But the Greek interpreters agree with the Vulgate, which seems better. (Berthier) --- St. Je...

The Lord. Hebrew points determine, "Lord, hear," &c. But the Greek interpreters agree with the Vulgate, which seems better. (Berthier) ---

St. Jerome, however, make this a prayer. "Hear," &c. (Haydock)

Gill: Psa 29:11 - -- The Lord will give strength unto his people,.... His special people, his covenant people, whom he has chosen for himself; these are encompassed with i...

The Lord will give strength unto his people,.... His special people, his covenant people, whom he has chosen for himself; these are encompassed with infirmities, and are weak in themselves; but there is strength for them in Christ: the Lord promises it unto them, and bestows it on them, and which is a pure gift of his grace unto them; this may more especially regard that strength, power, and dominion, which will be given to the people of the most High in the latter day; since it follows, upon the account of the everlasting kingdom of Christ;

the Lord will bless his people with peace: with internal peace, which is peculiar to them, and to which wicked men are strangers; and which arises from a comfortable apprehension of justification by the righteousness of Christ, of pardon by his blood, and atonement by his sacrifice; and is enjoyed in a way of believing; and with external peace in the latter day, when there shall be no more war with them, nor persecution of them; but there shall be abundance of peace, and that without end; and at last with eternal peace, which is the end of the perfect and upright man; and the whole is a great blessing.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 29:11 Heb “blesses his people with peace.” The Hebrew term שָׁלוֹם (shalom, “peace”) proba...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Psa 29:1-11 - --1 David exhorts princes to give glory to God;3 by reason of his power;11 and protection of his people.

MHCC: Psa 29:1-11 - --The mighty and honourable of the earth are especially bound to honour and worship him; but, alas, few attempt to worship him in the beauty of holiness...

Matthew Henry: Psa 29:1-11 - -- In this psalm we have, I. A demand of the homage of the great men of the earth to be paid to the great God. Every clap of thunder David interpreted ...

Keil-Delitzsch: Psa 29:10-11 - -- Luther renders it: "The Lord sitteth to prepare a Flood,"thus putting meaning into the unintelligible rendering of the Vulgate and lxx; and in fact ...

Constable: Psa 29:1-11 - --Psalm 29 David praised God for His awesome power as a consequence of observing a severe thunderstorm eit...

Constable: Psa 29:10-11 - --3. The sovereignty of Yahweh 29:10-11 29:10 The present storm reminded David of the inundation of the whole world in Noah's day. The Hebrew word for f...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Psalms (Book Introduction) The Hebrew title of this book is Tehilim ("praises" or "hymns"), for a leading feature in its contents is praise, though the word occurs in the title ...

JFB: Psalms (Outline) ALEPH. (Psa 119:1-8). This celebrated Psalm has several peculiarities. It is divided into twenty-two parts or stanzas, denoted by the twenty-two let...

TSK: Psalms (Book Introduction) The Psalms have been the general song of the universal Church; and in their praise, all the Fathers have been unanimously eloquent. Men of all nation...

TSK: Psalms 29 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Psa 29:1, David exhorts princes to give glory to God; Psa 29:3, by reason of his power; Psa 29:11, and protection of his people.

Poole: Psalms (Book Introduction) OF PSALMS THE ARGUMENT The divine authority of this Book of PSALMS is so certain and evident, that it was never questioned in the church; which b...

Poole: Psalms 29 (Chapter Introduction) THE ARGUMENT It is supposed that this Psalm was made upon the occasion of some terrible tempest of thunder and rain; which God might possibly send ...

MHCC: Psalms (Book Introduction) David was the penman of most of the psalms, but some evidently were composed by other writers, and the writers of some are doubtful. But all were writ...

MHCC: Psalms 29 (Chapter Introduction) Exhortation to give glory to God.

Matthew Henry: Psalms (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Book of Psalms We have now before us one of the choicest and most excellent parts of all the Old Te...

Matthew Henry: Psalms 29 (Chapter Introduction) It is the probable conjecture of some very good interpreters that David penned this psalm upon occasion, and just at the time, of a great storm of ...

Constable: Psalms (Book Introduction) Introduction Title The title of this book in the Hebrew Bible is Tehillim, which means...

Constable: Psalms (Outline) Outline I. Book 1: chs. 1-41 II. Book 2: chs. 42-72 III. Book 3: chs. 73...

Constable: Psalms Psalms Bibliography Allen, Ronald B. "Evidence from Psalm 89." In A Case for Premillennialism: A New Consensus,...

Haydock: Psalms (Book Introduction) THE BOOK OF PSALMS. INTRODUCTION. The Psalms are called by the Hebrew, Tehillim; that is, hymns of praise. The author, of a great part of ...

Gill: Psalms (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO PSALMS The title of this book may be rendered "the Book of Praises", or "Hymns"; the psalm which our Lord sung at the passover is c...

Gill: Psalms 29 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 29 A Psalm of David. In the Vulgate Latin version is added, "at the finishing of the tabernacle"; suggesting that this psalm ...

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