The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
Parallel translations
- WEB The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind. The lightnings lit up 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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Quick answer
God's thunder rolled in the whirlwind, lightning lit the world, and the earth trembled and shook.
Overview
The theophany continues as all creation quakes at God's powerful presence during the Exodus deliverance. The trembling earth and flashing skies declare His unmatched majesty. This portrait of the Lord coming in storm to save His people assures believers that the God who shakes the earth acts mightily for their redemption.
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- Ps 97:4His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.
- Rev 11:19And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.
- Exod 19:16And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
- Judg 5:4LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
- Hab 3:4And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.
- Matt 28:2And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.
- Matt 27:51And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
- 2 Sam 22:14The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.
- Job 37:1–5At this also my heart trembleth, and is moved out of his place.
- Exod 19:18And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
- 2 Sam 22:8Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.
- Rev 18:1And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
- Ps 18:7Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
- Ps 104:7At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
- Rev 20:11And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
- Ps 29:3–9The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD is upon many waters.
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