God of the storm (Psalm 29)

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Psalm 29 is a hymn to the God of the storm. It has new resonance in this year of hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes that have impacted so many in North America. I have been reading as if for the first time this poem that describes the LORD as the one who “thunders” and “breaks the cedars” and makes entire countries to “skip like a calf.” The LORD “flashes forth in flames” and “shakes the wilderness” and “causes the oaks to whirl” and “sits enthroned over the flood.”