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.
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He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries.
But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.
The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion. …
Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-58)The particulars of this copious prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same things left and returned to so often that it could not well be divided into parts, but we must endeavor to collect them under their proper heads. Let us then observe here, I. An acknowledgment of the great pomp and power that Babylon had been in and the use that God in his providence had made of it (Jer. 51:7): Bab…
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