Yahweh also thundered in the sky. The Most High uttered his voice: hailstones and coals of fire.
Parallel translations
- KJV The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
- BSB The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded—hailstones and coals of fire.
- NKJV The Lord thundered from heaven, And the Most High uttered His voice, Hailstones and coals of fire.
- NASB The Lord also thundered in the heavens, And the Most High uttered His voice, Hailstones and coals of fire.
- NLT The Lord thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded amid the hail and burning coals.
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- Ps 104:7At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away.
- 1 Sam 7:10As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines came near to battle against Israel; but Yahweh thundered with a great thunder on that day on the Philistines, and confused them; and they were struck down before Israel.
- Ps 140:10Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, from where they never rise.
- Ps 29:3–4Yahweh’s voice is on the waters. The God of glory thunders, even Yahweh on many waters.
- Deut 32:24They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, with the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.
- Hab 3:5Plague went before him, and pestilence followed his feet.
- Exod 20:18All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance.
- Rev 19:6I heard something like the voice of a great multitude, and like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of mighty thunders, saying, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns!
- Rev 4:5Out of the throne proceed lightnings, sounds, and thunders. There were seven lamps of fire burning before his throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.
- Job 40:9Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?
- Rev 8:5The angel took the censer, and he filled it with the fire of the altar, and threw it on the earth. There followed thunders, sounds, lightnings, and an earthquake.
- Ps 78:48He gave over their livestock also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
- Ps 120:3–4What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?
- John 12:29The multitude therefore, who stood by and heard it, said that it had thundered. Others said, “An angel has spoken to him.”
- Ezek 10:5The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.
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