Psalms 29:9

Maketh the hinds to calve, through the terror which it causeth, which hastens the birth in these and other places: see 1 Samuel 4:19. He nameth the hinds, because they bring forth their young with difficulty, Job 39:1,2. Discovereth, Heb. maketh bare; either of its trees, which it either breaks or strips off their leaves; or of the beasts, which it forceth to run into their dens. And in his temple; or, but. Having showed the terrible effects of God's power in other places, he now shows the blessed privilege of God's people, that are praising and glorifying God, and receiving the comfortable influences of his grace in his temple, when the rest of the world are trembling under the tokens of his displeasure; by which he secretly invites and persuades the Gentiles, for their own safety and comfort, to own the true God and to worship him in his sanctuary, as he did exhort them, Psalms 29:2. Or, therefore, i.e. because of these and such-like discoveries of God's excellent majesty and power, his people fear, and praise, and adore him in his temple.