Yahweh’s voice is on the waters. The God of glory thunders, even Yahweh on many waters.
Parallel translations
- KJV The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD is upon many waters.
- BSB The voice of the LORD is over the waters; the God of glory thunders; the LORD is heard over many waters.
- NKJV The voice of the Lord is over the waters; The God of glory thunders; The Lord is over many waters.
- NASB ¶The voice of the Lord is on the waters; The God of glory thunders, The Lord is over many waters.
- NLT The voice of the Lord echoes above the sea. The God of glory thunders. The Lord thunders over the mighty sea.
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Quick answer
The Lord's voice thunders over the waters as the God of glory. It portrays God's majestic power in the storm.
Overview
The 'voice of Yahweh,' a refrain through this psalm, here breaks like thunder over the seas. The storm becomes a theater displaying God's glory and might. The God whose voice commands creation is the same Word made flesh in Christ, who stilled the storm with a word.
Cross-references & the web
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- Job 37:2–5Hear, oh, hear the noise of his voice, the sound that goes out of his mouth.
- Ps 93:3–4The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.
- Exod 9:33Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands to Yahweh; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth.
- Ps 77:16–19The waters saw you, God. The waters saw you, and they writhed. The depths also convulsed.
- Exod 9:28Pray to Yahweh; for there has been enough of mighty thunderings and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.”
- Matt 8:26–27He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.
- Ps 18:13–15Yahweh also thundered in the sky. The Most High uttered his voice: hailstones and coals of fire.
- Exod 19:16On the third day, when it was morning, there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.
- John 12:29The multitude therefore, who stood by and heard it, said that it had thundered. Others said, “An angel has spoken to him.”
- Rev 16:18There were lightnings, sounds, and thunders; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since there were men on the earth, so great an earthquake, so mighty.
- 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.
- 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!
- 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.
- 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.
- Rev 11:19God’s temple that is in heaven was opened, and the ark of the Lord’s covenant was seen in his temple. Lightnings, sounds, thunders, an earthquake, and great hail followed.
- Ps 104:3He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.
- Ps 24:7–10Lift up your heads, you gates! Be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.
- Rev 17:14–15These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings, and those who are with him are called chosen and faithful.”
- Acts 7:2He said, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
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