Psalms 18:13

Christian Standard Bible ®

The Lord thundered from heaven;the Most High made his voice heard.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The LORD also thundered in the sky, The Elyon uttered his voice, Hailstones and coals of fire.

King James Version
The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.

English Standard Version
The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice, hailstones and coals of fire.

New Century Version
The Lord thundered from heaven; the Most High raised his voice, and there was hail and lightning.

New English Translation
The Lord thundered in the sky; the sovereign One shouted.

Amplified Bible
The LORD also thundered in the heavens, And the Most High uttered His voice, Hailstones and coals of fire.

New American Standard Bible
The LORD also thundered in the heavens, And the Most High uttered His voice, Hailstones and coals of fire.

World English Bible
Yahweh also thundered in the sky, The Most High uttered his voice, Hailstones and coals of fire.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The Lord also thundred in the heauen, and the Highest gaue his voyce, haylestones and coales of fire.

Legacy Standard Bible
Yahweh also thundered in the heavens,And the Most High gave forth His voice,Hailstones and coals of fire.

Berean Standard Bible
The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded-hailstones and coals of fire.

Contemporary English Version
Lord Most High, your voice thundered from the heavens, as hailstones and fiery coals poured down like rain.

Complete Jewish Bible
From the brightness before him, there broke through his thick clouds hailstones and fiery coals.

Darby Translation
And Jehovah thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice: hail and coals of fire.

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord thundered from the sky; God Most High let his voice be heard.

George Lamsa Translation
The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice: hailstones and coals of fire.

Good News Translation
Then the Lord thundered from the sky; and the voice of the Most High was heard.

Lexham English Bible
And Yahweh thundered from the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice with hail and coals of fire.

Literal Translation
Jehovah also thundered in the heavens; and the Highest gave forth His voice, hailstones and coals of fire.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The LORDE also thondred out of ye heaue, & the heyth gaue his thondre wt hale stones & coales of fyre.

American Standard Version
Jehovah also thundered in the heavens, And the Most High uttered his voice, Hailstones and coals of fire.

Bible in Basic English
The Lord made thunder in the heavens, and the voice of the Highest was sounding out: a rain of ice and fire.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
At the brightness before Him, there passed through His thick clouds hailstones and coals of fire.

King James Version (1611)
The Lord also thundered in the heauens, and the highest gaue his voyce; hailestones and coales of fire.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
God also thundred out of heauen: and the most hyghest made his voyce to sounde, haylestones, and coles of fire.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The Lord also thundered from heaven, and the Highest uttered his voice.

English Revised Version
The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice; hailstones and coals of fire.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ful cleer cloudis passiden in his siyt; hail and the coolis of fier.

Update Bible Version
Yahweh also thundered in the heavens, And the Most High uttered his voice, Hailstones and coals of fire.

Webster's Bible Translation
The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail [stones] and coals of fire.

New King James Version
The Lord thundered from heaven,And the Most High uttered His voice,Hailstones and coals of fire. [fn]

New Living Translation
The Lord thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded amid the hail and burning coals.

New Life Bible
The Lord made thunder in the heavens. The voice of the Most High spoke out, hail stones and fire.

New Revised Standard
The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then did Yahweh thunder in the heavens, and the Highest uttered his voice, - hail, and live coals of fire.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(17-14) And the Lord thundered from heaven, and the Highest gave his voice: hail and coals of fire.

Revised Standard Version
The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice, hailstones and coals of fire.

Young's Literal Translation
And thunder in the heavens doth Jehovah, And the Most High giveth forth His voice, Hail and coals of fire.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The Lord also thundered in the heavens, And the Most High uttered His voice, Hailstones and coals of fire.

Contextual Overview

¹I love you, Lord, my strength. ²The Lord is my rock,my fortress, and my deliverer,my God, my rock where I seek refuge,my shield and the horn of my salvation,my stronghold. ³I called to the Lord, who is worthy of praise,and I was saved from my enemies. ⁴The ropes of death were wrapped around me;the torrents of destruction terrified me. ⁵The ropes of Sheol entangled me;the snares of death confronted me. ⁶I called to the Lord in my distress,and I cried to my God for help.From his temple he heard my voice,and my cry to him reached his ears. ⁷Then the earth shook and quaked;the foundations of the mountains trembled;they shook because he burned with anger. ⁸Smoke rose from his nostrils,and consuming fire came from his mouth;coals were set ablaze by it. ⁹He bent the heavens and came down,total darkness beneath his feet. ¹⁰He rode on a cherub and flew,soaring on the wings of the wind.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thundered: Psalms 78:48, Psalms 104:7, Exodus 20:18, 1 Samuel 7:10, Job 40:9, John 12:29, Revelation 4:5, Revelation 8:5, Revelation 19:6

Highest: Psalms 29:3, Psalms 29:4, Ezekiel 10:5

coals: Psalms 120:3, Psalms 120:4, Psalms 140:10, Deuteronomy 32:24, *marg. Habakkuk 3:5

Reciprocal: Exodus 9:23 - and hail Exodus 14:24 - looked unto 1 Samuel 2:10 - he thunder 1 Chronicles 14:11 - God Job 36:29 - the noise Psalms 144:6 - Cast forth Proverbs 12:26 - but Isaiah 30:30 - the Lord Jeremiah 10:13 - uttereth Jeremiah 51:16 - he uttereth Ezekiel 1:24 - as the voice Ezekiel 10:2 - coals Ezekiel 13:11 - there shall Ezekiel 13:13 - and great Revelation 8:7 - hail

Cross-References

John 2:25
and because he did not need anyone to testify about man; for he himself knew what was in man.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The Lord also thundered in the heavens,.... By his apostles and ministers, some of which were Boanergeses, sons of thunder, whose ministry was useful to shake the consciences of men, and bring them to a sense of themselves, Mark 3:17;

and the Highest gave his voice; the same with thunder; for thunder is often called the voice of the Lord, Job 37:5; compare with this Psalms 68:11; the Targum interprets it, "he lifted up his word"; the same effects as before follow,

hail [stones] and coals of fire; Psalms 68:11- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Lord also thundered in the heavens - Thunder is often in the Scriptures described as the voice of God. See the magnificent description in Psalms 29:1-11; compare Job 40:9, “Canst thou thunder with a voice like him?” So 1 Samuel 7:10; 1 Samuel 12:18; Psalms 77:18; Job 37:4.

And the Highest gave his voice - God, the most exalted Being in the universe, uttered his voice in the thunder; or, the thunder was his voice.

Hail-stones, and coals of fire - Accompanying the thunder. The repetition seems to be because these were such striking and constant accompaniments of the storm.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 18:13. The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice — And then followed the hail and coals of fire. The former verse mentioned the lightning, with its effects; this gives us the report of the thunder, and the increasing storm of hail and fire that attended it. Some think the words hail-stones and coals of fire are entered here by some careless transcribers from the preceding verse; and it is true that they are wanting in the Septuagint and the Arabic, in the parallel place in 2 Samuel, and in five of Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS. I should rather, with Bishop Horsley, suppose them to be an interpolation in the preceding verse: or in that to have been borrowed from this; for this most certainly is their true place.