Fire, and hail; snow, and vapours; stormy wind fulfilling his word:
Parallel translations
- WEB lightning and hail, snow and clouds; 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 sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly.
- Rev 16:8–9And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
- Rev 16:21And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
- Exod 14:21And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
- Josh 10:11And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
- Joel 2:30And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
- Exod 10:13And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
- Num 16:35And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
- Isa 66:16For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
- Jonah 1:4But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.
- Ps 103:20Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.
- Matt 8:24–27And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.
- Job 38:22–37Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,
- Lev 10:2And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.
- Ps 107:25–29For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
- Exod 10:19And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
- Job 37:2–6Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth.
- Exod 9:23–25And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
- Gen 19:24Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
- Amos 7:4Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.
- Ps 18:12At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
- Amos 4:13For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.
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