Psalms 28:4
The voice of the Lord is in power; the voice of the Lord in magnificence.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Vox Domini in virtute ; vox Domini in magnificentia.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- φωνὴ Κυρίου ἐν ἰσχύι, φωνὴ Κυρίου ἐν μεγαλοπρεπίᾳ.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 29:4
- קוֹל יְהוָ֥ה בַּכֹּ֑חַ ק֥וֹל יְ֝הוָ֗ה בֶּהָדָֽר
Haydock's commentary
Power and magnificence. The sacraments of confirmation, and the blessed Eucharist, or the wonderful propagation of the Church, amid violent persecutions. (Berthier)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm XXIX
4. “The Voice of the Lord is in power” ( ver. 4 ). The Voice of the Lord now in them themselves, making them powerful. “The Voice of the Lord is in great might.” The Voice of the Lord working great things in them.
St Gregory of Nyssa On the Baptism of Christ
Even these instances might be enough to confirm our present position; but the lover of good thoughts must yet not neglect what follows. The people of the Hebrews, as we learn, after many sufferings, and after accomplishing their weary course in the desert, did not enter the land of promise until it had first been brought, with Joshua for its guide and the pilot of its life, to the passage of the Jordan. But it is clear that Joshua also, who set up the twelve stones in the stream, was anticipating the coming of the twelve disciples, the ministers of Baptism. …