Discovery BoxJeremiah 10:13 
Context10:13 When his voice thunders, 1 the heavenly ocean roars.
He makes the clouds rise from the far-off horizons. 2
He makes the lightning flash out in the midst of the rain.
He unleashes the wind from the places where he stores it. 3
Jeremiah 14:22
Context14:22 Do any of the worthless idols 4 of the nations cause rain to fall?
Do the skies themselves send showers?
Is it not you, O Lord our God, who does this? 5
So we put our hopes in you 6
because you alone do all this.”
Jeremiah 51:16
Context51:16 When his voice thunders, the waters in the heavens roar.
He makes the clouds rise from the far-off horizons.
He makes the lightning flash out in the midst of the rain.
He unleashes the wind from the places where he stores it.
1 tn Heb “At the voice of his giving.” The idiom “to give the voice” is often used for thunder (cf. BDB 679 s.v. נָתַן Qal.1.x).
2 tn Heb “from the ends of the earth.”
3 tn Heb “he brings out the winds from his storehouses.”
4 tn The word הֶבֶל (hevel), often translated “vanities”, is a common pejorative epithet for idols or false gods. See already in 8:19 and 10:8.
5 tn Heb “Is it not you, O
6 tn The rhetorical negatives are balanced by a rhetorical positive.
