Psalm 148:8
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8 fire and hail, snow and frost,
stormy wind fulfilling his command!(A)
Psalm 147:15-18
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15 He sends out his command to the earth;
his word runs swiftly.(A)
16 He gives snow like wool;
he scatters frost like ashes.(B)
17 He hurls down hail like crumbs—
who can stand before his cold?
18 He sends out his word and melts them;
he makes his wind blow, and the waters flow.(C)
Revelation 16:21
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21 and huge hailstones, each weighing about a hundred pounds,[a] dropped from heaven on people, until they cursed God for the plague of the hail, so fearful was that plague.(A)
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- 16.21 Gk weighing about a talent
Revelation 16:8-9
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8 The fourth angel poured his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch people with fire; 9 they were scorched by the fierce heat, but they cursed the name of God, who had authority over these plagues, and they did not repent and give him glory.(A)
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Matthew 8:24-27
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24 A windstorm suddenly arose on the sea, so great that the boat was being swamped by the waves, but he was asleep. 25 And they went and woke him up, saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!” 26 And he said to them, “Why are you afraid, you of little faith?” Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a dead calm.(A) 27 They were amazed, saying, “What sort of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him?”
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Jonah 1:4
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4 But the Lord hurled a great wind upon the sea, and such a mighty storm came upon the sea that the ship threatened to break up.(A)
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Amos 7:4
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4 This is what the Lord God showed me: the Lord God was calling for judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land.
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Amos 4:13
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13 For the one who forms the mountains, creates the wind,
reveals his thoughts to mortals,
makes the morning darkness,
and treads on the heights of the earth—
the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!(A)
Joel 2:30
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30 I will show portents in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.(A)
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Isaiah 66:16
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16 For by fire will the Lord execute judgment,
and by his sword on all flesh;
and those slain by the Lord shall be many.(A)
Psalm 107:25-29
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25 For he commanded and raised the stormy wind,
which lifted up the waves of the sea.(A)
26 They mounted up to heaven; they went down to the depths;
their courage melted away in their calamity;(B)
27 they reeled and staggered like drunkards
and were at their wits’ end.(C)
28 Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,
and he brought them out from their distress;
29 he made the storm be still,
and the waves of the sea were hushed.(D)
Psalm 103:20
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20 Bless the Lord, O you his angels,
you mighty ones who do his bidding,
obedient to his spoken word.(A)
Psalm 18:12
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12 Out of the brightness before him
there broke through his clouds
hailstones and coals of fire.(A)
Job 38:22-37
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22 “Have you entered the storehouses of the snow,
or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,(A)
23 which I have reserved for the time of trouble,
for the day of battle and war?(B)
24 What is the way to the place where the light is distributed
or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth?(C)
25 “Who has cut a channel for the torrents of rain
and a way for the thunderbolt,(D)
26 to bring rain on a land where no one lives,
on the desert, which is empty of human life,(E)
27 to satisfy the waste and desolate land,
and to make the ground put forth grass?(F)
28 “Has the rain a father,
or who has fathered the drops of dew?(G)
29 From whose womb did the ice come forth,
and who has given birth to the hoarfrost of heaven?(H)
30 The waters become hard like stone,
and the face of the deep is frozen.
31 “Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades
or loose the cords of Orion?(I)
32 Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season,
or can you guide the Bear with its children?
33 Do you know the ordinances of the heavens?
Can you establish their rule on the earth?(J)
34 “Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,
so that a flood of waters may cover you?(K)
35 Can you send forth lightnings, so that they may go
and say to you, ‘Here we are’?(L)
36 Who has put wisdom in the inward parts[a]
or given understanding to the mind?[b](M)
37 Who has the wisdom to number the clouds?
Or who can tilt the waterskins of the heavens
Job 37:2-6
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2 Listen, listen to the thunder of his voice
and the rumbling that comes from his mouth.(A)
3 Under the whole heaven he lets it loose,
and his lightning to the corners of the earth.
4 After it his voice roars;
he thunders with his majestic voice,
and he does not restrain the lightnings[a] when his voice is heard.(B)
5 God thunders wondrously with his voice;
he does great things that we cannot comprehend.(C)
6 For to the snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth’;
and the shower of rain, his heavy shower of rain,(D)
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Joshua 10:11
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11 As they fled before Israel, while they were going down the slope of Beth-horon, the Lord threw down huge stones from heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died; there were more who died because of the hailstones than the Israelites killed with the sword.(A)
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Numbers 16:35
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35 And fire came out from the Lord and consumed the two hundred fifty men offering the incense.(A)
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Leviticus 10:2
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2 And fire came out from the presence of the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord.(A)
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Exodus 14:21
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21 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. The Lord drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and turned the sea into dry land, and the waters were divided.(A)
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Exodus 10:19
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19 The Lord changed the wind into a very strong west wind, which lifted the locusts and drove them into the Red Sea;[a] not a single locust was left in all the country of Egypt.
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- 10.19 Or Sea of Reeds
Exodus 10:13
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13 So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all that night. When morning came, the east wind had brought the locusts.
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Exodus 9:23-25
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23 Then Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and fire came down on the earth. And the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt;(A) 24 there was hail with fire flashing continually in the midst of it, such heavy hail as had never fallen in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. 25 The hail struck down everything that was in the open field throughout all the land of Egypt, both human and animal; the hail also struck down all the plants of the field and shattered every tree in the field.(B)
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Genesis 19:24
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24 Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven,(A)
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