Voice, thunder, and many-waters imagery uses overwhelming sound to picture the majesty, authority, revelation, and fearful nearness of God.
Voice, thunder, and many-waters imagery uses overwhelming sound to picture the majesty, authority, revelation, and fearful nearness of God.
A divine-sound motif in which thunder, roaring waters, mighty voice, or the voice of the LORD signifies sovereign self-disclosure, judgment, worshipful awe, or the irresistible authority of God speaking and acting.
These examples show how Voice of the LORD, Thunder, and Many-Waters Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud
Thunder frames Sinai as a terrifying auditory revelation of the LORD.
the thunderings, and the lightnings
The people hear and see Sinai sound-signs and tremble before God.
The LORD thundered from heaven
Thunder pictures the LORD intervening in royal deliverance and judgment.
Hear attentively the noise of his voice
Thunder is treated as a created echo of God’s majestic voice.
The voice of the LORD is upon the waters
The divine voice over waters displays glory and strength.
The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars
The voice is pictured as powerful enough to shatter mighty trees.
like the noise of great waters
Heavenly movement sounds like overwhelming waters around the throne vision.
his voice was like a noise of many waters
The returning glory of God is marked by many-waters sound.
the people... said that it thundered
A heavenly voice is perceived by some as thunder, stressing divine otherness.
his voice as the sound of many waters
The risen Christ’s voice is described with overwhelming auditory majesty.
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