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18The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened{H8689)} the world: the earth trembled{H8804)} and shook{H8799)}.
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His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.
And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.
The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.
The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD is upon many waters. …
And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-20)The psalmist here recovers himself out of the great distress and plague he was in, and silences his own fears of God’s casting off his people by the remembrance of the great things he had done for them formerly, which though he had in vain tried to quiet himself with ( Ps. 77:5 , 6 ) yet he tried again, and, upon this second trial, found it not in vain. It is good to persevere in the proper means…
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