Psalms Chapter 29 verse 7 Holy Bible
The voice of Jehovah cleaveth the flames of fire.
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At the voice of the Lord flames of fire are seen.
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The voice of Jehovah cleaveth out flames of fire.
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The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire.
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The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire.
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Yahweh's voice strikes with flashes of lightning.
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The voice of Jehovah is hewing fiery flames,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 7. - The voice of the Lord divideth the flames of fire; rather, the voice of the Lord heweth out flames of fire. The poet describes the appearances of things, not the actual reality. To him it seems as if the thunder, rolling along the sky, hewed out a chasm in the clouds, from which the forked lightning issued.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(7) The voice . . .--Literally, the voice of Jehovah cleaving flames of fire. The word is used of hewingstone and wood (Isaiah 10:15). The reference to lightning in this verse is universally admitted, some even seeing an allusion to the brief and sudden flash in the single clause of which the sentence is composed. But the most various explanations are given of the image employed. One of these--that of beating out as from an anvil--may be set aside as clumsy and unworthy of the poet. But the comparison with Isaiah 51:9, and Hosea 6:5, where the same verb is used of God's "judgments," makes it possible that the lightnings here are regarded as "thought-executing fires," and if language would allow, we might translate "hewing with flames of fire," and illustrate by"And ever and anon some bright white shaftBurnt through the pine-tree roof, here burnt and there,As if God's messenger through the close wood screenPlunged and replunged his weapon at a venture,Feeling for guilty thee and me." . . .
