Psalms 29:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Maketh the hinds to calve Through the terror which it causeth, which hastens parturition in these and some other creatures. But he names hinds, because they usually bring forth their young with difficulty. See note on Job 39:1. And discovereth the forests Hebrew יחשׂ Š, jechesoph, maketh bare, &c., either of their trees, which it breaks and strips of their leaves; or of the beasts, which it forces to run into their dens. And, or but, in his temple doth every one speak, &c. Having shown the terrible effects of God's power in other places, he now shows the blessed privilege of God's people, that are praising and glorifying God, and receiving the comfortable influences of his grace in his temple, when the world are trembling under the tokens of his displeasure. By this he secretly invites and persuades the Gentiles, for their own safety and comfort, to own the true God, and to worship him in his sanctuary, as he exhorted, Psalms 29:2. Or, therefore in his temple, that is, because of these, and such like discoveries of God's excellent majesty and power, his people fear, praise, and adore him in his temple.