Jeremiah 10:13

WEB

¹³When he utters his voice, the waters in the heavens roar, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings for the rain, and brings the wind out of his treasuries.

KJV

¹³When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.

BSB

¹³When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.

FBV

¹³The waters of the heavens rain down with a roar at his command. He makes the clouds to rise all over the earth. He makes lightning to accompany rain, and sends the wind from his storehouses.

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Extra References

Psalms 135:7

⁷He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings with the rain. He brings the wind out of his treasuries.

Job 38:22

²²Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,

Job 38:34-35

³⁴“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover you? ³⁵Can you send out lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?

Psalms 18:13

¹³The LORD also thundered in the sky. The Most High uttered his voice: hailstones and coals of fire.

1 Kings 18:41

⁴¹Elijah said to Ahab, “Get up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.”

Job 38:25-27

²⁵Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm, ²⁶to cause it to rain on a land where there is no man, on the wilderness, in which there is no man, ²⁷to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to grow?

Psalms 147:8

⁸who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains.

Psalms 29:3-10

³The LORD’s voice is on the waters. The God of glory thunders, even the LORD on many waters. ⁴The LORD’s voice is powerful. The LORD’s voice is full of majesty. ⁵The LORD’s voice breaks the cedars. Yes, the LORD breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon. ⁶He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young, wild ox. ⁷The LORD’s voice strikes with flashes of lightning. ⁸The LORD’s voice shakes the wilderness. The LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh. ⁹The LORD’s voice makes the deer calve, and strips the forests bare. In his temple everything says, “Glory!” ¹⁰The LORD sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, the LORD sits as King forever.

Exodus 9:23

²³Moses stretched out his rod toward the heavens, and the LORD sent thunder and hail; and lightning flashed down to the earth. The LORD rained hail on the land of Egypt.

Job 36:27-33

²⁷For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor, ²⁸which the skies pour down and which drop on man abundantly. ²⁹Indeed, can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds and the thunderings of his pavilion? ³⁰Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea. ³¹For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance. ³²He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark. ³³Its noise tells about him, and the livestock also, concerning the storm that comes up.