Jeremiah 10:13

The waters of the heavens rain down with a roar at his command. He makes the clouds to rise all over the earth. He makes lightning to accompany rain, and sends the wind from his storehouses.

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In The King James Version

When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.

In Context

12It was God who made the earth by his power. He created the world by his wisdom and by his understanding he put the heavens in place.

14Everyone is stupid; they don't know anything. Every metalworker is embarrassed by the idols they make. For their images made of molten metal are fraudulent—they're not alive!

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Cross References

Exodus 9:23Moses held up his staff toward heaven, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and made lightning hit the ground. This is how the Lord rained hail down on Egypt.

1 Kings 18:41Elijah told Ahab, “Go and eat and drink, for I hear the sound of a heavy rain coming.”

Job 36:27He draws up the water and distils it into the dew and the rain.

Job 38:22Have you been to where the snow is kept? Have you seen where the hail is held?

Job 38:26Who brings rain to an uninhabited land, to a desert where nobody lives,

Psalms 18:13The Lord thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High sounded among the hailstones and burning coals.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 10:2-17

Solemn Charge to Israel; The Folly of Idolatry. ( b. c. 606.) 1 Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: 2 Thus saith the Lord , Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. 3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. 4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. 5… Read the whole commentary →

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