Psalms 29:8

29:8 The Lord’s shout shakes the wilderness,

the Lord shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.


tn The Hebrew imperfect verbal forms are descriptive in function; the psalmist depicts the action as underway.

sn Kadesh. The references to Lebanon and Sirion in v. 6 suggest this is a reference to the northern Kadesh, located north of Damascus, not the southern Kadesh mentioned so often in the OT. See M. Dahood, Psalms (AB), 1:178.