Verse 13

When his voice thunders, the heavenly ocean roars. He makes the clouds rise from the far-off horizons. He makes the lightning flash out in the midst of the rain. He unleashes the wind from the places where he stores it.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 135:7 : 7 He causes the clouds to arise from the end of the earth, makes lightning bolts accompany the rain, and brings the wind out of his storehouses.
  • Job 38:34-35 : 34 Can you raise your voice to the clouds so that a flood of water covers you? 35 Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go? Will they say to you,‘Here we are’?
  • Job 38:22 : 22 Have you entered the storehouse of the snow, or seen the armory of the hail,
  • Job 38:25-27 : 25 Who carves out a channel for the heavy rains, and a path for the rumble of thunder, 26 to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, a wilderness where there are no human beings, 27 to satisfy a devastated and desolate land, and to cause it to sprout with vegetation?
  • Ps 135:17 : 17 and ears, but cannot hear. Indeed, they cannot breathe.
  • Ps 147:8 : 8 He covers the sky with clouds, provides the earth with rain, and causes grass to grow on the hillsides.
  • Zech 10:1 : 1 The Restoration of the True People Ask the LORD for rain in the season of the late spring rains– the LORD who causes thunderstorms– and he will give everyone showers of rain and green growth in the field.
  • Ps 18:13 : 13 The LORD thundered in the sky; the Most High shouted.
  • Ps 29:3-9 : 3 The LORD’s shout is heard over the water; the majestic God thunders, the LORD appears over the surging water. 4 The LORD’s shout is powerful, the LORD’s shout is majestic. 5 The LORD’s shout breaks the cedars, the LORD shatters the cedars of Lebanon. 6 He makes Lebanon skip like a calf and Sirion like a young ox. 7 The LORD’s shout strikes with flaming fire. 8 The LORD’s shout shakes the wilderness, the LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh. 9 The LORD’s shout bends the large trees and strips the leaves from the forests. Everyone in his temple says,“Majestic!” 10 The LORD sits enthroned over the engulfing waters, the LORD sits enthroned as the eternal king.
  • Ps 68:33 : 33 to the one who rides through the sky from ancient times! Look! He thunders loudly.
  • Exod 9:23 : 23 When Moses extended his staff toward the sky, the LORD sent thunder and hail, and fire fell to the earth; so the LORD caused hail to rain down on the land of Egypt.
  • 1 Sam 12:17-18 : 17 Is this not the time of the wheat harvest? I will call on the LORD so that he makes it thunder and rain. Realize and see what a great sin you have committed before the LORD by asking for a king for yourselves.” 18 So Samuel called to the LORD, and the LORD made it thunder and rain that day. All the people were very afraid of both the LORD and Samuel.
  • 1 Kgs 18:41 : 41 Then Elijah told Ahab,“Go on up and eat and drink, for the sound of a heavy rainstorm can be heard.”
  • 1 Kgs 18:45-46 : 45 Meanwhile the sky was covered with dark clouds, the wind blew, and there was a heavy rainstorm. Ahab rode toward Jezreel. 46 Now the LORD energized Elijah with power; he tucked his robe into his belt and ran ahead of Ahab all the way to Jezreel.
  • Job 36:27-33 : 27 He draws up drops of water; they distill the rain into its mist, 28 which the clouds pour down and shower on humankind abundantly. 29 Who can understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion? 30 See how he scattered his lightning about him; he has covered the depths of the sea. 31 It is by these that he judges the nations and supplies food in abundance. 32 With his hands he covers the lightning, and directs it against its target. 33 His thunder announces the coming storm, the cattle also, concerning the storm’s approach.
  • Job 37:2-5 : 2 Listen carefully to the thunder of his voice, to the rumbling that proceeds from his mouth. 3 Under the whole heaven he lets it go, even his lightning to the far corners of the earth. 4 After that a voice roars; he thunders with an exalted voice, and he does not hold back his lightning bolts when his voice is heard. 5 God thunders with his voice in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding.