Psalms 29:4-6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The voice of the Lord is full of majesty Is a very awful and evident proof of God's glorious majesty. Breaketh the cedars By lightning, vulgarly called thunderbolts; which have torn asunder and destroyed trees and towers. The cedars of Lebanon A place famous for strong and lofty cedars. He maketh them also The cedars last mentioned; to skip like a calf For, being broken by the lightning, the fragments of them are suddenly and violently hurled about hither and thither; Lebanon also, and Sirion A high mountain beyond Jordan, joining to Lebanon: and these mountains may here be understood, either, 1st, Properly, and so they are said to skip and leap, both here and Psalms 114:4, by a poetical hyberbole, very usual both in Scripture and other authors; or, 2d, Metonymically, being put for the trees or people of them, as the wilderness is to be understood, Psalms 29:8; and as the earth, by the same figure, is frequently put for the inhabitants of it; like a young unicorn Hebrew reem: see Numbers 23:22; Psalms 22:21.