3. The voice of the Lord isupon the waters. The thunder is not only poetically but
instructively called “the voice
of God,” since it peals from on high; it surpasses all other sounds, it
inspires awe, it is entirely independent of man, and has been used on some
occasions as the grand accompaniment of God’s speech to Adam’s sons. There is
peculiar terror in a tempest at sea, when deep calleth unto deep, and the
raging sea echoes to the angry sky. The God of glory thundereth. Thunder
is in truth no mere electric phenomenon, but is caused by the interposition of
God himself. Electricity of itself can do nothing, it must be called and sent
upon its errand; and until the Almighty Lord commissions it, its bolt of fire
is inert and powerless. The Lordis upon many waters. Still the psalmist’s ear hears no voice but that of
Jehovah, resounding from the multitudinous and dark waters of the upper ocean
of clouds, and echoing from the innumerable billows of the storm-tossed sea
below.
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