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King James Version

Psalms 77:18

The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Earthquakes;   Lightning;   Readings, Select;   Thunder;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Arrows;   Clouds;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Jeduthun;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Earthquake;   Exodus;   Heaven;   Thunder;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Earthquake;   Whirlwind;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Clouds;   Deep, the;   Lightning;   Wheel;   Whirlwind;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Asaph;   Earthquake;   Jeduthun;   Priests and Levites;   Psalms;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Inspiration and Revelation;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Thunder;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Thunder;   Voice;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Red Sea;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Thunder;  

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
The crash of your thunder was in the whirlwind; your lightnings lighted up the world; the earth trembled and shook.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The voyce of thy thunder was rounde about: the lightnings lightened the worlde: the earth trembled and shooke.
Christian Standard Bible®
The sound of your thunder was in the whirlwind;lightning lit up the world.The earth shook and quaked.
Hebrew Names Version
The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind. The lightnings lit up the world. The eretz trembled and shook.
Easy-to-Read Version
There were loud claps of thunder. Lightning lit up the world. The earth shook and trembled.
Amplified Bible
The voice of Your thunder was in the whirlwind; The lightnings illumined the world; The earth trembled and shook.
American Standard Version
The voice of thy thunder was in the whirlwind; The lightnings lightened the world: The earth trembled and shook.
Contemporary English Version
Your thunder roared like chariot wheels. The world was made bright by lightning, and all the earth trembled.
Complete Jewish Bible
The clouds poured water, the skies thundered, and your arrows flashed here and there.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The clouds flooded forth waters; the skies sent out a sound; Thine arrows also went abroad.
King James Version (1611)
The voice of thy thunder was in the heauen: the lightnings lightned the world, the earth trembled and shooke.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The voice of thy thunder was abroad, and around thy lightnings appeared to the world; the earth trembled a quaked.
English Revised Version
The voice of thy thunder was in the whirlwind; the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
Berean Standard Bible
Your thunder resounded in the whirlwind; the lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.
Lexham English Bible
The sound of your thunder was in the whirlwind; lightnings lit the world; the earth shook and quaked.
Literal Translation
The voice of Your thunder in the tempest; lightnings lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked!
New Century Version
Your thunder sounded in the whirlwind. Lightning lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook.
New English Translation
Your thunderous voice was heard in the wind; the lightning bolts lit up the world; the earth trembled and shook.
New King James Version
The voice of Your thunder was in the whirlwind; The lightnings lit up the world; The earth trembled and shook.
New Living Translation
Your thunder roared from the whirlwind; the lightning lit up the world! The earth trembled and shook.
New Life Bible
The sound of Your thunder was in the turning wind. The lightning lit up the world. The earth shook.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The, voice of thy thunder, was in the whirlwind, Thy lightnings illumined the world, The earth, trembled and quaked;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(76-19) The voice of thy thunder in a wheel. Thy lightnings enlightened the world: the earth shook and trembled.
George Lamsa Translation
The voice of thy thunder was in the heavens; the lightnings lightened the world; the earth trembled and shook.
Good News Translation
The crash of your thunder rolled out, and flashes of lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and shook.
New American Standard Bible
The sound of Your thunder was in the whirlwind; The lightning lit up the world; The earth trembled and shook.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The sounde of thy thunder was rounde about the [sky]: the lightnynges shone through the worlde, the earth quaked and trembled.
New Revised Standard
The crash of your thunder was in the whirlwind; your lightnings lit up the world; the earth trembled and shook.
Darby Translation
The voice of thy thunder was in the whirlwind, lightnings lit up the world; the earth was troubled and it quaked.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For whi thin arewis passen; the vois of thi thundir was in a wheel. Thi liytnyngis schyneden to the world; the erthe was moued, and tremblid.
Young's Literal Translation
The voice of Thy thunder [is] in the spheres, Lightnings have lightened the world, The earth hath trembled, yea, it shaketh.
World English Bible
The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind. The lightnings lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook.
Revised Standard Version
The crash of thy thunder was in the whirlwind; thy lightnings lighted up the world; the earth trembled and shook.
Update Bible Version
The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind; The lightnings lightened the world: The earth trembled and shook.
Webster's Bible Translation
The voice of thy thunder [was] in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
Bible in Basic English
The voice of your thunder went rolling on; the world was flaming with the light of the storm; the earth was shaking.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thy thonder was herde rounde aboute, the lighteninges shone vpon the grounde, the earth was moued and shoke withall.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The sound of Your thunder was in the whirlwind; The lightnings lit up the world; The earth trembled and shook.
Legacy Standard Bible
The sound of Your thunder was in the whirlwind;The lightnings lit up the world;The earth trembled and shook.

Contextual Overview

11 I will remember the works of the Lord : surely I will remember thy wonders of old. 12 I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings. 13 Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God? 14 Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people. 15 Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah. 16 The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled. 17 The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad. 18 The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook. 19 Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known. 20 Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

voice: Psalms 29:3-9, Exodus 19:16, Job 37:1-5, Revelation 11:19

lightnings: Psalms 97:4, Habakkuk 3:4, Revelation 18:1

earth: Exodus 19:18, 2 Samuel 22:8, 2 Samuel 22:14, Matthew 27:51, Matthew 28:2, Revelation 20:11

Reciprocal: Exodus 9:23 - the Lord sent Joshua 10:11 - the Lord Judges 5:20 - fought Psalms 29:7 - flames Psalms 68:8 - earth Psalms 68:33 - his voice Psalms 114:7 - Tremble Psalms 144:6 - Cast forth Isaiah 5:25 - the hills Jeremiah 4:24 - mountains Jeremiah 10:10 - at Habakkuk 3:10 - mountains Habakkuk 3:11 - at the light of thine arrows they went Zechariah 9:14 - his Revelation 19:6 - and as the voice of mighty

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven,.... Thunder is the voice of God, Job 37:5 this is heard in "the orb" b, or the air, so called, because spherical; the Targum is

"the voice of thy thunder was heard in the wheel;''

so the word here used sometimes signifies; so Ezekiel 10:13, and is so rendered here by some c; some think this refers to the wheels of the chariots of the Egyptians, which were taken off, it may be by the force of thunder and lightning, so that they drove on heavily, Exodus 14:25,

the lightnings lightened the world; not only that part of the world where the Israelites and Egyptians were, but the whole world; for lightning comes out of the east, and shines to the west, Matthew 24:27, this was in the night, and a very dark night it was, as Josephus d affirms; see Psalms 97:4,

the earth trembled and shook; there was an earthquake at the same time; unless this is to be understood of the panic which the inhabitants of the earth were put into on hearing of this wonderful event, Joshua 2:9.

b בגלגל "in rotunditate", Montanus, Vatablus; "in isto orbe", Junius Tremeullis "in orbe", Cocceius; "in sphaera", Arab. c "In rota", Pagninus, Tigurine version, Musculus, Gejerus; "in rotis", Muis, Syr. vid. Suidam in voce τροχος. d Ut supra. (Antiq. l. 2. c. 16. sect. 3.)

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven - Compare the notes at Psalms 29:1-11. The word rendered “heaven” here - גלגל galgal - means properly “a wheel,” as of a chariot, Isaiah 5:28; Ezekiel 10:2, Ezekiel 10:6; Ezekiel 23:24; Ezekiel 26:10. Then it means a “whirlwind,” as that which rolls along, Ezekiel 10:13. Then it is used to denote chaff or stubble, as driven along before a whirlwind, Psalms 83:13; Isaiah 17:13. It is never used to denote heaven. It means here, undoubtedly, the whirlwind; and the idea is, that in the ragings of the storm, or of the whirlwind, the voice of God was heard - the deep bellowing thunder - as if God spoke to people.

The lightnings lightened the world - The whole earth seemed to be in a blaze.

The earth trembled and shook - See the notes at Psalms 29:1-11.


 
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