He covers his hands with the lightning and commands it to strike the mark.
He covers the heavens with clouds; he prepares rain for the earth; he makes grass grow on the hills. He gives to the beasts their food, and to the young ravens that cry.
When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope of our being saved was at last abandoned.
fire and hail, snow and mist, stormy wind fulfilling his word!
He it is who makes the clouds rise at the end of the earth, who makes lightnings for the rain and brings forth the wind from his storehouses.
He made darkness his covering, his canopy around him, thick clouds dark with water.
Do you know how God lays his command upon them and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?
They turn around and around by his guidance, to accomplish all that he commands them on the face of the habitable world.
He covers the face of the full moon and spreads over it his cloud.
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness to be felt.” So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was pitch darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. They did not see one another, nor did anyone rise from his place for three days, but all the people of Israel had light where they lived.
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