Psalms 29:9

"The voice of Jehovah maketh the hinds to calve,

And strippeth the forests bare:

And in his temple, everything saith, Glory."

"Maketh the hinds to calve" (Psalms 29:9). This is usually interpreted to mean that wild animals, mammals, living in the forests were caused to bring forth their young prematurely because of their terror of the violent thunderstorm. The hinds here are the female deer. Dahood affirmed that, "There is no evidence that either wild or domestic animals are so affected by a thunderstorm."[20] However, as Rawlinson pointed out, "Plutarch stated that the shepherds reported that, `Sheep left alone in a thunderstorm do indeed cast their young.' Also Pliny, the Roman historian wrote that, `Solitary sheep cast their lambs in thunderstorms; and the remedy is to keep the flock together, which helps prevent that.'"[21] Dummelow also recognized this phenomenon as, "An actual effect of terrifying thunderstorms."[22]

Until competent authorities are willing to qualify Dahood as an expert in Animal Husbandry, we shall be content with the competent witnesses we have here cited on this subject. And, of course, there is another sense in which God indeed enables both man and beast to reproduce themselves, being, in fact the First Cause of all things.

"In his temple everything saith, Glory" (Psalms 29:9). "This vision of `The Glorious One' semantically and structurally balances Psalms 29:2, a full fourteen beats from the beginning of the psalm."[23]