14 Therefore the storehouses are opened, and clouds fly out like birds. (WEB)
Sirach 43:14
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Nahum 2:5–7
5 He summons his nobles; they stumble as they advance. They race to its wall; the protective shield is set in place. 6 The river gates are thrown open and the palace collapses. 7 It is decreed that the city be exiled and carried away; her maidservants moan like doves…
Job 36:27–29
27 For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist, 28 which the clouds pour out and shower abundantly on mankind. 29 Furthermore, who can understand how the clouds spread out, how the thunder roars from His pavilion?
2 Enoch 40:6–8
6 And I investigated all things, and wrote the road of the thunder and of the lightning, and they showed me the keys and their guardians, their rise, the way they go; it is let out in measure (sc. gently) by a chain, lest by a heavy chain and violence it hurl d… (2EN)
Psalms 77:16–18
16 The waters saw You, O God; the waters saw You and swirled; even the depths were shaken. 17 The clouds poured down water; the skies resounded with thunder; Your arrows flashed back and forth. 18 Your thunder resounded in the whirlwind; the lightning lit up the world;…
Wisdom of Solomon 5:20–22
20 He will sharpen stern wrath for a sword. The universe will go with him to fight against his frenzied foes. (WEB) 21 Shafts of lightning will fly with true aim. They will leap to the mark from the clouds, as from a well-drawn bow. (WEB) 22 Hailstones full of wrath will be hurled… (WEB)
Book of Enoch 75:4–6
4 In like manner twelve doors Uriel showed me, open in the circumference of the sun’s chariot in the heaven, through which the rays of the sun break forth: and from them is warmth diffused over the earth, when they are opened at their appointed seasons. (ENO) 5 [And for… (ENO)
2 Enoch 5:1
1 AND here I looked down and saw the treasure-houses of the snow, and the angels who keep their terrible store-houses, and the clouds whence they come out and into which they go. (2EN)
Baruch 6:61–63
61 Likewise also the lightning when it flashes is beautiful to see. In the same way, the wind also blows in every country. (WEB) 62 And when God commands the clouds to go over the whole world, they do as they are told. (WEB) 63 And the fire sent from above to consume mountains and… (WEB)
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