THUNDER
And lightning are significant manifestations of the power of God, and emblems of his presence, Exodus 19:16 1 Samuel 2:10; 1 Samuel 1:12 Psalms 18:13. Thunder is poetically called "the voice of the Lord" in the sublime description of a thunder-storm in Psalms 29:11;
"The voice of the Lord is upon the waters;
The God of glory thundereth;
The Lord is upon many waters.
The voice of the Lord is powerful;
The voice of the Lord is full of majesty.
The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars;
Yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon," etc.
See Job 1:37-5; Job 1:40 Jeremiah 10:13. In illustration of Psalms 29:9, Moffat, while describing the thunder-storms of South Africa, say that the antelopes flee in consternation; and that he has observed the Bechuanas starting off early on the morning following such a storm in quest of young antelopes prematurely born. In Psalms 78:48, "hot thunderbolts" means lightning.