who causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth; who makes lightnings with the rain; who brings the wind out of his treasuries;
Parallel translations
- KJV He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries.
- BSB He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
- NKJV He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; He makes lightning for the rain; He brings the wind out of His treasuries.
- NASB He causes the mist to ascend from the ends of the earth, He makes lightning for the rain; He brings forth the wind from His treasuries.
- NLT He causes the clouds to rise over the whole earth. He sends the lightning with the rain and releases the wind from his storehouses.
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Quick answer
God governs the weather itself, raising clouds, sending lightning and rain, and releasing the wind from His storehouses.
Overview
The psalmist celebrates Yahweh's control over the natural order, picturing wind and rain as treasures He dispenses at will. What ancient peoples credited to nature-deities, Israel attributed to the one Creator who sustains all things. This providential care over creation points forward to Christ, in whom all things hold together and who stilled the very winds and waves.
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Cross-references · 14
- Jer 10:13when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings for the rain, and brings the wind out of his treasuries.
- Zech 10:1Ask of Yahweh rain in the spring time, Yahweh who makes storm clouds, and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.
- Job 28:25–26He establishes the force of the wind. Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.
- Jer 51:16When he utters his voice, there is a roar of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and brings the wind out of his treasuries.
- Ps 148:8lightning and hail, snow and clouds; stormy wind, fulfilling his word;
- John 3:8The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don’t know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
- Job 5:10who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;
- 1 Kgs 18:41–45Elijah said to Ahab, “Get up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.”
- Jonah 1:4But Yahweh sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty storm on the sea, so that the ship was likely to break up.
- Job 38:22–28Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, or have you seen the treasures of the hail,
- Ps 107:25For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves.
- Jer 14:22Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the sky give showers? Aren’t you he, Yahweh our God? Therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.
- 1 Kgs 18:1After many days, Yahweh’s word came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth.”
- Gen 2:5–6No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,
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