The voice of Your thunder was in the whirlwind; The lightnings lit up 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.
- 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.
- 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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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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Cross-references · 16
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Hab 3:4His splendor is like the sunrise. Rays shine from his hand, where his power is hidden.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2 Sam 22:14Yahweh thundered from heaven. The Most High uttered his voice.
- Job 37:1–5“Yes, at this my heart trembles, and is moved out of its place.
- 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.
- 2 Sam 22:8Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations of heaven quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.
- 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.
- Ps 18:7Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.
- Ps 104:7At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away.
- 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.
- Ps 29:3–9Yahweh’s voice is on the waters. The God of glory thunders, even Yahweh on many waters.
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