Psalms 77:18

Your thunderous voice was heard in the wind; the lightning bolts lit up the world; the earth trembled and shook. ¹ 

Your thunder was heard in the whirlwind, your lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.

The sound of Your thunder was in the whirlwind; The lightnings lit up the world; The earth trembled and shook.

Your thunder roared from the whirlwind; the lightning lit up the world! The earth trembled and shook.

From Whirlwind came your thundering voice, Lightning exposed the world, Earth reeled and rocked.

The voice of your thunder went rolling on; the world was flaming with the light of the storm; the earth was shaking.

The crash of your thunder was in the whirlwind; your lightnings lit up the world; the earth trembled and shook.

The voice of Your thunder was in the whirlwind; The lightnings lit up the world; The earth trembled and shook.

Your thunderous voice was heard in the wind; the lightning bolts lit up the world; the earth trembled and shook. ¹ 

¹ tn The prefixed verbal form may be taken as a preterite or as an imperfect with past progressive force.

sn Verses 16-18 depict the Lord coming in the storm to battle his enemies and subdue the sea. There is no record of such a storm in the historical account of the Red Sea crossing. The language the psalmist uses here is stereotypical and originates in Canaanite myth, where the storm god Baal subdues the sea in his quest for kingship. The psalmist has employed the stereotypical imagery to portray the exodus vividly and at the same time affirm that it is not Baal who subdues the sea, but Yahweh.