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.
Parallel translations
- WEB 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;
- 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.
- 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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- Jer 10:13When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; 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.
- Zech 10:1Ask the LORD for rain in springtime; the LORD makes the storm clouds, and He will give everyone showers of rain and crops in the field.
- Job 28:25–26When God fixed the weight of the wind and measured out the waters,
- Jer 51:16When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; 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.
- Ps 148:8lightning and hail, snow and clouds, powerful wind fulfilling His word,
- John 3:8The wind blows where it wishes. You hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”
- Job 5:10He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.
- 1 Kgs 18:41–45And Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy rain.”
- Jonah 1:4Then the LORD hurled a great wind upon the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship was in danger of breaking apart.
- Job 38:22–28Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,
- Ps 107:25For He spoke and raised a tempest that lifted the waves of the sea.
- Jer 14:22Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.
- 1 Kgs 18:1After a long time, in the third year of the drought, the word of the LORD came to Elijah: “Go and present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the face of the earth.”
- Gen 2:5–6Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted; for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
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