KJV King James Version
The voice of thy thunder [was] in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
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Psalm 77:18
The voice of thy thunder [was] in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Your thunder resounded in the whirlwind; the lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.
WEB World English Bible
The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind. The lightnings lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook.
ASV American Standard Version
The voice of thy thunder was in the whirlwind; The lightnings lightened the world: The earth trembled and shook.
YLT 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.
Surrounding context — Psalm 77
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.
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Psalm 97:4His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.2 Samuel 22:14The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.Revelation 11:19And 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.Matthew 27:51And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;Exodus 19:16And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that [was] in the camp trembled.Exodus 19:18And 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.Revelation 18:1And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.Habakkuk 3:4And [his] brightness was as the light; he had horns [coming] out of his hand: and there [was] the hiding of his power.Revelation 20:11And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.Psalm 104:7At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.Psalm 29:3-9The voice of the LORD [is] upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD [is] upon many waters.Judges 5:4LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.Psalm 18:7Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.2 Samuel 22:8Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.Matthew 28:2And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.Job 37:1-5At this also my heart trembleth, and is moved out of his place.
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