Psalms 77:18

¹⁶ The waters saw You, O God; the waters saw You and swirled; even the depths were shaken.

¹⁷ The clouds poured down water; the skies resounded with thunder; Your arrows flashed back and forth.

Your thunder resounded in the whirlwind; the lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.

¹⁹ Your path led through the sea, Your way through the mighty waters, but Your footprints were not to be found.

²⁰ You led Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: Your thunder resounded in the whirlwind; the lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.
KJV: The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
WEB: The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind. The lightnings lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook.
ASV: The voice of thy thunder was in the whirlwind; The lightnings lightened the world: The earth trembled and shook.
DARBY: The voice of thy thunder was in the whirlwind, lightnings lit up the world; the earth was troubled and it quaked.
BLB: The voice of Your thunder [was] in the whirlwind; the lightnings lit up the world; the earth trembled and shook.

ÅB: Din tordens røst lød i stormhvirvelen, lyn lyste opp jorderike, jorden bevet og skalv.
OTB: Lyden av Din torden var i virvelvinden;
Lynet opplyste verden;
Jorden skalv og rystet.
B1930: Din tordens røst lød i stormhvirvelen, lyn lyste op jorderike, jorden bevet og skalv.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Psalms 97:4
His lightning illuminates the world; the earth sees and trembles.
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Revelation 11:19
Then the temple of God in heaven was opened, and the ark of His covenant appeared in His temple. And there were flashes of lightning, and rumblings, and peals of thunder, and an earthquake, and a great hailstorm.
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Matthew 27:51
At that moment the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks were split.
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Matthew 28:2
Suddenly there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, rolled away the stone, and sat on it.
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Judges 5:4
O LORD, when You went out from Seir, when You marched from the land of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens poured out rain, and the clouds poured down water.
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2 Samuel 22:14
The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded.
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Exodus 19:16
On the third day, when morning came, there was thunder and lightning. A thick cloud was upon the mountain, and a very loud blast of the ram’s horn went out, so that all the people in the camp trembled.
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Habakkuk 3:4
His radiance was like the sunlight; rays flashed from His hand, where His power is hidden.
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