1. “The thunder and lightning frighten me; my heart pounds in my chest.
2. Listen to God’s thundering voice! Listen to the sound coming from his mouth.
3. He sends his lightning to flash across the whole sky. It lights up the earth from one end to the other.
4. After the flashes of lightning you can hear his roaring voice. He thunders with his wonderful voice! And while his voice thunders, the lightning flashes continue.
5. God’s thundering voice is amazing! He does great things that we cannot understand.
6. He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth.’ And he says to the rain, ‘Pour down on the earth.’
7. God does this to stop everyone’s work and to show the people he made what he can do.
8. The animals run into their dens and stay there.
9. Whirlwinds come from the south. The cold winds come from the north.
10. God’s breath makes ice and freezes even large bodies of water.
11. He fills the clouds with water and scatters his lightning through them.
12. He orders the clouds to be blown all around the earth. The clouds do whatever he commands.