Clouds, rain, and hail have all been feared and worshiped by numerous primitive tribes and by many of the early nature cults. Windstorms with thunder and lightning overawed early man. He was so impressed with these elemental disturbances that thunder was regarded as the voice of an angry god. The worship of fire and the fear of lightning were linked together and were widespread among many early groups.
Close in 2 of 10 textsLeans toward GitaPairs with Wisdom of Solomon 13:2
Close in meaning, found by a language model. A match does not mean the teachings are the same.
But they thought that either fire, or wind, or swift air, or circling stars, or raging water, or luminaries of heaven were gods that rule the world.
lightning and hail, snow and clouds, stormy wind, fulfilling his word,
Behold, clouds from the east, and from the north to the south! They are very horrible to look at, full of wrath and storm. They will clash against one another. They will pour out a heavy storm on the earth, even their own storm. There will be blood from the sword to the horse’s belly, and to the thigh of man, and to the camel’s hock. There will be fearfulness and great trembling upon earth. They who see that wrath will be afraid, and trembling will seize them. After this, great storms will be stirred up from the south, from the north, and another part from the west. Strong winds will arise from the east, and will shut it up, even the cloud which he raised up in wrath; and the storm that was to cause destruction by the east wind will be violently driven toward the south and west. Great and mighty clouds, full of wrath, will be lifted up with the storm, that they may destroy all the earth and those who dwell in it. They will pour out over every high and lofty one a terrible storm, fire, hail, flying swords, and many waters, that all plains may be full, and all rivers, with the abundance of those waters. They will break down the cities and walls, mountains and hills, trees of the forest, and grass of the meadows, and their grain. They will go on steadily to Babylon and destroy her. They will come to it and surround it. They will pour out the storm and all wrath on her. Then the dust and smoke will go up to the sky, and all those who are around it will mourn for it. Those who remain will serve those who have destroyed it.