He covers over His palms with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark;
He covers the face of His throne, spreading His cloud over it.
Yea, He loads the cloud with moisture; He scatters His lightning cloud;
and it turns about in all directions by His guidance, so that they may do whatever He commands them on the face of the world of the earth.
Do you know when God placed them, and caused the lightning of His cloud to shine?
Can you send lightnings, that they may go and say to you, Here we are?
He causes the vapors to rise from the end of the earth; He makes lightnings for the rain; He brings the wind out of His storehouses;
fire and hail, snow and smoke, stormy wind fulfilling His Word,
He made darkness His covering, His pavilion all around Him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
Then the stream beds of waters were seen, and the foundations of the earth were bared at Your rebuke, O Jehovah, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.
And neither sun nor stars having appeared over many days, and no small tempest pressing hard, finally all hope for us to be saved was taken away.