The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind. The lightnings lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook.
Parallel translations
- KJV The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
- BSB Your thunder resounded in the whirlwind; the lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.
- NKJV The voice of Your thunder was in the whirlwind; The lightnings lit up the world; The earth trembled and shook.
- NASB The sound of Your thunder was in the whirlwind; The lightning lit up the world; The earth trembled and shook.
- NLT Your thunder roared from the whirlwind; the lightning lit up the world! The earth trembled and shook.
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- Ps 97:4His lightning lights up the world. The earth sees, and trembles.
- 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.
- Matt 27:51Behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks were split.
- 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.
- Hab 3:4His splendor is like the sunrise. Rays shine from his hand, where his power is hidden.
- 2 Sam 22:14Yahweh thundered from heaven. The Most High uttered his voice.
- Matt 28:2Behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from the sky, and came and rolled away the stone from the door, and sat on it.
- Judg 5:4“Yahweh, when you went out of Seir, when you marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the sky also dropped. Yes, the clouds dropped water.
- Ps 104:7At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away.
- 2 Sam 22:8Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations of heaven quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.
- Job 37:1–5“Yes, at this my heart trembles, and is moved out of its place.
- Ps 18:7Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.
- Exod 19:18All of Mount Sinai smoked, because Yahweh descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.
- Ps 29:3–9Yahweh’s voice is on the waters. The God of glory thunders, even Yahweh on many waters.
- Rev 18:1After these things, I saw another angel coming down out of the sky, having great authority. The earth was illuminated with his glory.
- Rev 20:11I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.
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