Jeremiah 51:16

WEB

¹⁶When he utters his voice, there is a roar of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and brings the wind out of his treasuries.

KJV

¹⁶When 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

¹⁶When 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

¹⁶The 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.

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.

Psalms 18:13

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

Jonah 1:4

⁴But the LORD sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty storm on the sea, so that the ship was likely to break up.

Jeremiah 10:12-13

¹²God has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens. 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.

Job 37:13

¹³whether it is for correction, or for his land, or for loving kindness, that he causes it to come.

Job 38:34-38

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’? ³⁶Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind? ³⁷Who can count the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the containers of the sky, ³⁸when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of earth stick together?

Job 37:2-11

²Hear, oh, hear the noise of his voice, the sound that goes out of his mouth. ³He sends it out under the whole sky, and his lightning to the ends of the earth. ⁴After it a voice roars. He thunders with the voice of his majesty. He doesn’t hold back anything when his voice is heard. ⁵God thunders marvelously with his voice. He does great things, which we can’t comprehend. ⁶For he says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ likewise to the shower of rain, and to the showers of his mighty rain. ⁷He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he has made may know it. ⁸Then the animals take cover, and remain in their dens. ⁹Out of its room comes the storm, and cold out of the north. ¹⁰By the breath of God, ice is given, and the width of the waters is frozen. ¹¹Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning.

Psalms 147:18

¹⁸He sends out his word, and melts them. He causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow.

Psalms 104:7

⁷At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away.

Job 36:26-33

²⁶Behold, God is great, and we don’t know him. The number of his years is unsearchable. 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.