The voice of the LORD is over the waters; the God of glory thunders; the LORD is heard over many waters.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh’s voice is on the waters. The God of glory thunders, even Yahweh on many waters.
- KJV The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD is upon 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 37:2–5Listen closely to the thunder of His voice and the rumbling that comes from His mouth.
- Ps 93:3–4The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves.
- Exod 9:33Then Moses departed from Pharaoh, went out of the city, and spread out his hands to the LORD. The thunder and hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured down on the land.
- Ps 77:16–19The waters saw You, O God; the waters saw You and swirled; even the depths were shaken.
- Exod 9:28Pray to the LORD, for there has been enough of God’s thunder and hail. I will let you go; you do not need to stay any longer.”
- Matt 8:26–27“You of little faith,” Jesus replied, “why are you so afraid?” Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it was perfectly calm.
- Ps 18:13–15The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded—hailstones and coals of fire.
- Exod 19:16On the third day, when morning came, there was thunder and lightning. A thick cloud was upon the mountain, and a very loud blast of the ram’s horn went out, so that all the people in the camp trembled.
- John 12:29The crowd standing there heard it and said that it had thundered. Others said that an angel had spoken to Him.
- Rev 16:18And there were flashes of lightning, and rumblings, and peals of thunder, and a great earthquake the likes of which had not occurred since men were upon the earth—so mighty was the great quake.
- Rev 4:5From the throne came flashes of lightning, and rumblings, and peals of thunder. Before the throne burned seven torches of fire. These are the seven Spirits of God.
- Rev 19:6And I heard a sound like the roar of a great multitude, like the rushing of many waters, and like a mighty rumbling of thunder, crying out: “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns.
- 1 Sam 7:10As the Philistines drew near to fight against Israel, Samuel was sacrificing the burnt offering. But that day the LORD thundered loudly against the Philistines and threw them into such confusion that they fled before Israel.
- Rev 8:5Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it to the earth; and there were peals of thunder, and rumblings, and flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.
- Rev 11:19Then the temple of God in heaven was opened, and the ark of His covenant appeared in His temple. And there were flashes of lightning, and rumblings, and peals of thunder, and an earthquake, and a great hailstorm.
- Ps 104:3laying the beams of His chambers in the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.
- Ps 24:7–10Lift up your heads, O gates! Be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of Glory may enter!
- Rev 17:14–15They will make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will triumph over them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and He will be accompanied by His called and chosen and faithful ones.”
- Acts 7:2And Stephen declared: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
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