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The voice of Yahweh makes the deer calve, And strips the forests bare. In his temple everything says, "Glory!"
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God's Power in Creation
The verse uses vivid imagery—like terrified deer giving birth and forests being stripped bare by a storm—to illustrate the awesome and untamed power of God's voice. Commentators explain that these natural phenomena are meant to fill us with a profound sense of God's majesty, reminding us that His authority extends over every part of the created world, from the mightiest trees to the most timid animals.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The voice of the Lord maketh the hinds to calve - The deer. The psalmist's object here is to show the effects of the storm in produ…
19th Century
Anglican
Maketh the hinds to calve. — Literally, makes the hinds writhe (with pain). (See margin. Compare to Job 39:1, wh…
16th Century
Protestant
The voice of Jehovah maketh the hinds to bring forth. A silent comparison, as I have said, is made here. It is worse than irrational, it i…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The voice of the Lord makes the hinds to calve Which being timorous creatures, the bringing forth of their young, wh…
The mighty and honorable of the earth are especially bound to honor and worship him; but, alas, few attempt to worship him in the beauty of holines…
13th Century
Catholic
1. In the other psalms, the psalmist recalled the trust that he had in God; here he gives thanks as one who has been delivered.
The p…
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