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Psalms 77:18

Psalms 77:18
The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven,.... Thunder is the voice of God, Job 37:5 this is heard in "the orb" (b), or the air, so called, because spherical; the Targum is

"the voice of thy…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven - Compare the notes at Psa 29:1-11. The word rendered “heaven” here - גלגל galgal - means properly “a wheel,” as of a chariot, Isa 5:28; Eze 10:2, Eze 10:6;…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Psalms 77:11-20

The psalmist here recovers himself out of the great distress and plague he was in, and silences his own fears of God's casting off his people by the remembrance of the great things he had done for…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

in the heaven The word galgal, derived from a root meaning to roll, was understood by the Jewish commentators to mean the vaultor circuitof the heaven. More probably it should be rendered in the…