David exhorteth princes to give glory to God, by reason of his power, and protection of his people.
A Psalm of David.
Title. לדוד מזמור mizmor ledavid.— This Psalm seems to have been composed by David after an extraordinary storm of thunder, lightning, and rain; whereby, it is probable, God had so discomfited his enemies, (See 2 Samuel 8.) and put their forces into such disorder, that he easily got the victory over them; and therefore he here exhorts them to submit themselves to that glorious majesty from whom the thunder came, and who can with the greatest ease strike a sudden terror into the hearts of his stoutest and most resolute opposers. As there are many Psalms which point to a great victory obtained with this circumstance of remarkable thunder, it is more reasonable to believe, that they were all made upon the same occasion, than that they had each their several occasion to call them forth.
Psalms 29:1. O ye mighty— Ye sons of divinities. Mudge. אלים בני beni oelim: Ye princes and governors of the heathen people.