Trinity sunday Ps. 29

Ps. 29 follows this psalm for Trinity Sunday. I’ve worked with it before, if you care to scroll through older posts. the Talmud had it read at Pentecost. 1) Heavenly beings are gods in Ps. 82, or perhaps angels in Ps. 148.IN NT parlance, perhaps we could call them powers. 2) Vv. 3-11 have mythic overtones, at least to me. Scholars such as Frank Cross certainly hear it explicitly as working with hymns to Baal in Canaan and reworking it to Israel’s God at least to some extent. The Ugaritic corpus contains some similar phrasing in hymns. (Our future son in law reads Ugaritic, as well as many other ANE languages, so I can now check things with him, or maybe not) 3) I need to work on Lebanon skipping, especially after the terror evoked by the preceding verse. Some take it to mean that the mountains are skipping about due to quakes. 4) for this and the preceding psalm 104 from last week, one could also consider using the great array of creation hymns in our books, especially ones that draw from these psalms as a wedge to enter into the material more easily. 5) Both of these are invitations to also consider contemporary science as it supports or undercuts the ancient view of God here. Preachers may be too quick to continue to adopt a romantic, benevolent view of God in nature and skip over the pain, chaos, and struggle in it and is picked up in the psalms as well.