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Psalm 29:9

The LORD’s voice makes the deer calve, and strips the forests bare. In his temple everything says, “Glory!”

7The LORD’s voice strikes with flashes of lightning.
8The LORD’s voice shakes the wilderness. The LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.
9The LORD’s voice makes the deer calve, and strips the forests bare. In his temple everything says, “Glory!”
10The LORD sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, the LORD sits as King forever.
11The LORD will give strength to his people. The LORD will bless his people with peace.
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Deer giving birth and forests stripped bare make the temple’s cry of “Glory!” a response to power that can leave a reader awed and unsettled.

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Psalm 46:2–5Therefore we won’t be afraid, though the earth changes, though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;Both passages depict upheaval in the natural world, with forests stripped bare in one and mountains shaken in the other.
Job 39:1“Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?Both passages speak of deer giving birth in relation to God, whose question in Job exposes the limits of human knowledge.
Psalm 26:8LORD, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells.Both connect the LORD’s dwelling with his glory: one voices love for that place, while the other records its acclaim.
Ezekiel 20:46–48“Son of man, set your face toward the south, and preach toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the field in the south.A forest appears in both passages: the LORD’s voice strips one bare, and Ezekiel must prophesy against another.
Psalm 48:9We have thought about your loving kindness, God, in the middle of your temple.God’s temple is a place of response in both psalms, through the cry of glory and thought about his loving kindness.
Psalm 150:1Praise the LORD! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power!Both passages join praise in God’s dwelling with his power, expressed through the LORD’s voice in Psalm 29.
Jeremiah 14:5Yes, the doe in the field also calves and forsakes her young, because there is no grass.Both describe a doe calving, though Jeremiah adds the distress of a mother forsaking her young because grass is absent.
1 Samuel 3:3and God’s lamp hadn’t yet gone out, and Samuel had laid down in the LORD’s temple where God’s ark was,The LORD’s temple appears in both passages, filled with acclaim in the psalm and named as Samuel’s resting place.
Isaiah 9:18For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.Both portray damage to a forest, though Isaiah compares wickedness to consuming fire and the psalm names the LORD’s voice.
Isaiah 10:18–19He will consume the glory of his forest and of his fruitful field, both soul and body. It will be as when a standard bearer faints.Both passages describe a forest’s devastation, with stripping bare in the psalm and consumption of the forest’s glory in Isaiah.
Revelation 15:8The temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power. No one was able to enter into the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels …Both name God’s glory in his temple; Revelation describes smoke filling it so that no one can enter.
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The forest’s devastation remains part of the scene, even as praise rises in the temple. God’s glory includes a power beyond your control.

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