²⁶ When he made a decree for the rain, And a way for the lightning of the thunder;

²⁵ Who has cut a channel for the flood water, Or the path for the thunderstorm;

³ He sends it forth under the whole sky, And his lightning to the ends of the earth.

¹ Ask of Yahweh rain in the spring time, Yahweh who makes storm clouds, And he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.

⁷ "I also have withheld the rain from you, When there were yet three months to the harvest; And I caused it to rain on one city, And caused it not to rain on another city. One place was rained on, And the piece where it didn't rain withered.

²² Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the sky give showers? Aren't you he, Yahweh our God? therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.

⁸ Lightning and hail, snow and clouds; Stormy wind, fulfilling his word;

³ Yahweh's voice is on the waters. The God of glory thunders, even Yahweh on many waters.

⁴ Yahweh's voice is powerful. Yahweh's voice is full of majesty.

⁵ The voice of Yahweh breaks the cedars. Yes, Yahweh breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.

⁶ He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young, wild ox.

⁷ Yahweh's voice strikes with flashes of lightning.

⁸ Yahweh's voice shakes the wilderness. Yahweh shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.

⁹ Yahweh's voice makes the deer calve, And strips the forests bare. In his temple everything says, "Glory!"

¹⁰ Yahweh sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, Yahweh sits as King forever.

²⁷ To satisfy the waste and desolate ground, To cause the tender grass to spring forth?

¹¹ Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning.

³² He covers his hands with the lightning, And commands it to strike the mark.

²⁶ Behold, God is great, and we don't know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.