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Jeremiah 51:16
Jeremiah 51:16 is verse 16 of Jeremiah chapter 51, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
King James Version
When 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.
World English Bible
When he utters his voice, there is a roar of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and brings the wind out of his treasuries.
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Jeremiah 51:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible
14 The LORD of Hosts has sworn by Himself: “Surely I will fill you up with men as with locusts, and they will shout in triumph over you.”
15 The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.
16 When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
17 Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.
18 They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Jeremiah 10:12The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.
Jeremiah 10:13When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
Job 37:2Listen closely to the thunder of His voice and the rumbling that comes from His mouth.
Job 37:3He unleashes His lightning beneath the whole sky and sends it to the ends of the earth.
Job 37:4Then there comes a roaring sound; He thunders with His majestic voice. He does not restrain the lightning when His voice resounds.
Job 37:5God thunders wondrously with His voice; He does great things we cannot comprehend.
Job 37:6For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the gentle rain, ‘Pour out a mighty downpour.’
Job 37:7He seals up the hand of every man, so that all men may know His work.
Job 37:8The wild animals enter their lairs; they settle down in their dens.
Job 37:9The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds.
Job 37:10By the breath of God the ice is formed and the watery expanses are frozen.
Job 37:11He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.
Job 40:9Do you have an arm like God’s? Can you thunder with a voice like His?
Psalms 18:13The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded— hailstones and coals of fire.
Psalms 29:3The voice of the LORD is over the waters; the God of glory thunders; the LORD is heard over many waters.
Psalms 29:4The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is majestic.
Psalms 29:5The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; the LORD shatters the cedars of Lebanon.
Psalms 29:6He makes Lebanon skip like a calf, and Sirion like a young wild ox.
Psalms 29:7The voice of the LORD strikes with flames of fire.
Psalms 29:8The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness; the LORD shakes the Wilderness of Kadesh.
Psalms 29:9The voice of the LORD twists the oaks and strips the forests bare. And in His temple all cry, “Glory!”
Psalms 29:10The LORD sits enthroned over the flood; the LORD is enthroned as King forever.
Psalms 46:6Nations rage, kingdoms crumble; the earth melts when He lifts His voice.
Psalms 68:33to Him who rides upon the highest heavens of old; behold, His mighty voice resounds.
Psalms 104:7At Your rebuke the waters fled; at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away—
Ezekiel 10:5The sound of the wings of the cherubim could be heard as far as the outer court, like the voice of God Almighty when He speaks.
Job 36:26Indeed, God is great—beyond our knowledge; the number of His years is unsearchable.
Job 36:27For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist,
Job 36:28which the clouds pour out and shower abundantly on mankind.
Job 36:29Furthermore, who can understand how the clouds spread out, how the thunder roars from His pavilion?
Job 36:30See how He scatters His lightning around Him and covers the depths of the sea.
Job 36:31For by these He judges the nations and provides food in abundance.
Job 36:32He fills His hands with lightning and commands it to strike its mark.
Job 36:33The thunder declares His presence; even the cattle regard the rising storm.
Job 37:13Whether for punishment or for His land, He accomplishes this in His loving devotion.
Job 38:34Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?
Job 38:35Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
Job 38:36Who has put wisdom in the heart or given understanding to the mind?
Job 38:37Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens
Job 38:38when the dust hardens into a mass and the clods of earth stick together?
Psalms 135:7He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
Amos 9:7“Are you not like the Cushites to Me, O children of Israel?” declares the LORD. “Did I not bring Israel up from the land of Egypt, the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Arameans from Kir?
Genesis 8:1But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.
Exodus 10:13So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and throughout that day and night the LORD sent an east wind across the land. By morning the east wind had brought the locusts.
Exodus 10:19And the LORD changed the wind to a very strong west wind that carried off the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust remained anywhere in Egypt.
Exodus 14:21Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were divided,
Job 38:22Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,
Psalms 78:26He stirred the east wind from the heavens and drove the south wind by His might.
Psalms 147:18He sends forth His word and melts them; He unleashes His winds, and the waters flow.
Jonah 1:4Then the LORD hurled a great wind upon the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship was in danger of breaking apart.
Jonah 4:8As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
Matthew 8:26“You of little faith,” Jesus replied, “why are you so afraid?” Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it was perfectly calm.
Matthew 8:27The men were amazed and asked, “What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the sea obey Him!”