Psalm 29:5
New International Version
The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; the LORD breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.

New Living Translation
The voice of the LORD splits the mighty cedars; the LORD shatters the cedars of Lebanon.

English Standard Version
The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; the LORD breaks the cedars of Lebanon.

Berean Standard Bible
The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; the LORD shatters the cedars of Lebanon.

King James Bible
The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.

New King James Version
The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars, Yes, the LORD splinters the cedars of Lebanon.

New American Standard Bible
The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; Yes, the LORD breaks the cedars of Lebanon in pieces.

NASB 1995
The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; Yes, the LORD breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.

NASB 1977
The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; Yes, the LORD breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.

Legacy Standard Bible
The voice of Yahweh breaks the cedars; Indeed, Yahweh breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.

Amplified Bible
The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; Yes, the LORD breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.

Christian Standard Bible
The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; the LORD shatters the cedars of Lebanon.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; the LORD shatters the cedars of Lebanon.

American Standard Version
The voice of Jehovah breaketh the cedars; Yea, Jehovah breaketh in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The voice of LORD JEHOVAH that breaks the cedars and LORD JEHOVAH shatters the cedars of Lebanon.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
There is the voice of the Lord who breaks the cedars; the Lord will break the cedars of Libanus.

Contemporary English Version
The voice of the LORD destroys the cedar trees; the LORD shatters cedars on Mount Lebanon.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars: yea, the Lord shall break the cedars of Libanus.

English Revised Version
The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars. The LORD splinters the cedars of Lebanon.

Good News Translation
The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars, even the cedars of Lebanon.

International Standard Version
The voice of the LORD snaps the cedars; the LORD snaps the cedars of Lebanon.

JPS Tanakh 1917
The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.

Literal Standard Version
The voice of YHWH [is] shattering cedars, | Indeed, YHWH shatters the cedars of Lebanon.

Majority Standard Bible
The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; the LORD shatters the cedars of Lebanon.

New American Bible
The voice of the LORD cracks the cedars; the LORD splinters the cedars of Lebanon,

NET Bible
The LORD's shout breaks the cedars, the LORD shatters the cedars of Lebanon.

New Revised Standard Version
The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; the LORD breaks the cedars of Lebanon.

New Heart English Bible
The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars. Yes, the LORD breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.

Webster's Bible Translation
The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yes, the LORD breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.

World English Bible
Yahweh’s voice breaks the cedars. Yes, Yahweh breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.

Young's Literal Translation
The voice of Jehovah is shivering cedars, Yea, Jehovah shivers the cedars of Lebanon.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Ascribe Glory to the LORD
4The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is majestic. 5The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; the LORD shatters the cedars of Lebanon. 6He makes Lebanon skip like a calf, and Sirion like a young wild ox.…

Cross References
Judges 9:15
But the thornbush replied, 'If you really are anointing me as king over you, come and find refuge in my shade. But if not, may fire come out of the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon.'

1 Kings 5:6
Now therefore, order that cedars of Lebanon be cut down for me. My servants will be with your servants, and I will pay your servants whatever wages you set, for you know that there are none among us as skilled in logging as the Sidonians."

Psalm 104:16
The trees of the LORD have their fill, the cedars of Lebanon that He planted,

Isaiah 2:13
against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up, against all the oaks of Bashan,

Isaiah 14:8
Even the cypresses and cedars of Lebanon exult over you: "Since you have been laid low, no woodcutter comes against us."


Treasury of Scripture

The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; yes, the LORD breaks the cedars of Lebanon.

Isaiah 2:13
And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,

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(5) The voice of the Lord breaketh.--Better more literally, The voice of Jehovah breaking the cedars, and Jehovah hath shivered the cedars of Lebanon. (The verb in the second clause is an intensive of that used in the first.) The range of Lebanon receives the first fury of the storm. Its cedars, mightiest and longest-lived of Eastern trees, crash down, broken by the violence of the wind. (For cedar, see 2Samuel 7:2.) It has been objected that the thunder should not be made the agent in the destruction; but comp. Shakespeare--

"And thou, all-shaking thunder,

Smite flat the thick rotundity o' the world!

Crack Nature's moulds, all germens spill at once.

That make ingrateful man!"--King Lear, Acts 3, sc. 2.

Verse 5. - The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars. At length down swoops the hurricane - wind and rain and forked flashes of lightning all blended together, and violently tearing through the forest. The tall cedars - the pride and glory of Syria and Palestine - are snapped like reeds, and fall in a tangled mass. The Lord, who erstwhile "planted them" (Psalm cir. 16), now breaketh the cedars of Lebanon - breaketh and destroyeth them in his fury. Such storms, though rare in Palestine and Syria, are sometimes witnessed; and descriptions have been given by travellers which bear out this one of David (comp. Wilson, 'Travels,' p. 146; Cunningham Geikie, vol. 2. pp. 57, 335; Tristram, 'Land. of Israel,' pp. 40, 194, 227, etc.).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The voice
ק֣וֹל (qō·wl)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6963: A voice, sound

of the LORD
יְ֭הוָה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

breaks
שֹׁבֵ֣ר (šō·ḇêr)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 7665: To break, break in pieces

the cedars;
אֲרָזִ֑ים (’ă·rā·zîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 730: A cedar tree

the LORD
יְ֝הוָ֗ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

shatters
וַיְשַׁבֵּ֥ר (way·šab·bêr)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7665: To break, break in pieces

the cedars
אַרְזֵ֥י (’ar·zê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 730: A cedar tree

of Lebanon.
הַלְּבָנֽוֹן׃ (hal·lə·ḇā·nō·wn)
Article | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 3844: Lebanon -- a wooded mountain range on the northern border of Israel


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