lightning and hail, snow and clouds; stormy wind, fulfilling his word;
Parallel translations
- KJV Fire, and hail; snow, and vapours; stormy wind fulfilling his word:
- BSB lightning and hail, snow and clouds, powerful wind fulfilling His word,
- NKJV Fire and hail, snow and clouds; Stormy wind, fulfilling His word;
- NASB Fire and hail, snow and clouds; Stormy wind, fulfilling His word;
- NLT fire and hail, snow and clouds, wind and weather that obey him,
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Quick answer
Lightning, hail, snow, clouds, and stormy winds praise God by obeying His word. Even fierce weather serves and glorifies its Maker.
Overview
The forces of weather, often feared by humanity, are pictured as obedient servants 'fulfilling his word.' They praise God simply by doing His bidding. This sovereign command over wind and storm was displayed by Jesus, whom even wind and sea obey (Mark 4:41).
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- Ps 147:15–18He sends out his commandment to the earth. His word runs very swiftly.
- Rev 16:8–9The fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given to him to scorch men with fire.
- Rev 16:21Great hailstones, about the weight of a talent, came down out of the sky on people. People blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for this plague is exceedingly severe.
- Exod 14:21Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
- Josh 10:11As they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth Horon, Yahweh hurled down great stones from the sky on them to Azekah, and they died. There were more who died from the hailstones than those whom the children of Israel killed with the sword.
- Joel 2:30I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood, fire, and pillars of smoke.
- Exod 10:13Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
- Num 16:35Fire came out from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.
- Isa 66:16For Yahweh will execute judgment by fire and by his sword on all flesh; and those slain by Yahweh will be many.
- 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.
- Ps 103:20Praise Yahweh, you angels of his, who are mighty in strength, who fulfill his word, obeying the voice of his word.
- Matt 8:24–27Behold, a violent storm came up on the sea, so much that the boat was covered with the waves, but he was asleep.
- Job 38:22–37Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, or have you seen the treasures of the hail,
- Lev 10:2Fire came out from before Yahweh, and devoured them, and they died before Yahweh.
- Ps 107:25–29For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves.
- Exod 10:19Yahweh turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.
- Job 37:2–6Hear, oh, hear the noise of his voice, the sound that goes out of his mouth.
- Exod 9:23–25Moses stretched out his rod toward the heavens, and Yahweh sent thunder, hail, and lightning flashed down to the earth. Yahweh rained hail on the land of Egypt.
- Gen 19:24Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.
- Amos 7:4Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me and behold, the Lord Yahweh called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land.
- Ps 18:12At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire.
- Amos 4:13For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.”
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