Psalms 29:6

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4 The voice of the Lord is powerful;
The voice of the Lord is full of majesty.

5 The voice of the Lord breaks ^athe cedars,
Yes, the Lord splinters the cedars of Lebanon.

6 ^aHe makes them also skip like a calf,
Lebanon and ^bSirion like a young wild ox.

7 The voice of the Lord¹ divides the flames of fire.

8 The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness;
The Lord shakes the Wilderness of ^aKadesh.

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Barnes' Notes

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Psalms 29:6

He maketh them also to skip like a calf - That is, the cedars of Lebanon. Compare Psalms 114:4, "The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs." Psalms 68:16, "why leap ye, ye high hills?" The meaning is plain. The lightning tore off the large branches, and uprooted the loftiest trees, so that they seemed to play and dance like calves in their gambols. Nothing could be more strikingly descriptive of "power."

Lebanon and Sirion - Sirion was the name by which Mount Hermon was known among the Sidonians: Deuteronomy 3:9, "Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion." It is a part of the great range of Anti-libanus.

Like a young unicorn - On the meaning of the word used here, see the notes at Psalms 22:21. The illustration would be the same if any young wild animal were referred to.

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