Psalms 134:7
He bringeth up clouds from the end of the earth: he hath made lightnings for the rain. He bringeth forth winds out of his stores:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Educens nubes ab extremo terræ, fulgura in pluviam fecit ; qui producit ventos de thesauris suis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἀνάγων νεφέλας ἐξ ἐσχάτου γῆς, ἀστραπὰς εἰς ὑετὸν ἐποίησεν· ὁ ἐξάγων ἀνέμους ἐκ θησαυρῶν αὐτοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 135:7
- מַֽעֲלֶ֣ה נְשִׂאִים֮ מִקְצֵ֪ה הָ֫אָ֥רֶץ בְּרָקִ֣ים לַמָּטָ֣ר עָשָׂ֑ה מֽוֹצֵא ר֝וּחַ מֵאֽוֹצְרוֹתָֽיו
Haydock's commentary
Earth. The Mediterranean sea is so called, Luke xii. 54.
Rain. Indicating, or causing rain. (Haydock)
The most incompatible things are united. (Theodoret)
The sinner melts into tears at the sight of God's judgments. (St. Augustine)
Stores, which are his will and decrees. (Theodoret) (Jeremias li. 16.)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Theophilus of Antioch Theophilus to Autolycus, Chapter VI. God is Known by His Works
Consider, O man, His works, the timely rotation of the seasons, and the changes of temperature; the regular march of the stars; the well-ordered course of days and nights, and months, and years; the various beauty of seeds, and plants, and fruits; and the divers species of quadrupeds, and birds, and reptiles, and fishes, both of the rivers and of the sea; or consider the instinct implanted in these animals to beget and rear offspring, not for their own profit, but for the use of man; and the providence with which God provides nourishment for all flesh, or the subjection in which He has ordained that all things subserve mankind. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CXXXV
8. “Raising the clouds from the ends of the earth” ( ver. 7 ). We see these works of God in His creation. For the clouds come from the ends of the earth to the midst thereof, and rain; thou scannest not whence they arise. Hence the prophet signifies this, from “the ends of the earth,” whether it be from the bottom, or from the circumference of the ends of the earth, whencesoever He wills He raises the clouds, only from the earth. “He hath made lightnings into rain.” For lightnings without rain would frighten thee, and bestow nothing on thee. “He maketh lightnings unto rain.” It lightens, and thou tremblest; it rains, thou rejoicest. “He hath made lightnings unto rain.” He who terrified thee, Himself causest that thou shouldest rejoice. “Who bringeth the winds out of His treasures,” their causes are hidden, thou knowest not whence they come. …
St Cyril of Jerusalem On the Words, Maker of Heaven and Earth, and of All Things Visible and Invisible
9. Who is the father of the rain? And who hath begotten the drops of dew ? Who condensed the air into clouds, and bade them carry the waters of the rain, now bringing golden-tinted clouds from the north , now changing these into one uniform appearance, and again transforming them into manifold circles and other shapes? Who can number the clouds in wisdom ? Whereof in Job it saith, And He knoweth the separations of the clouds, and hath bent down the heaven to the earth : and, He who numbereth the clouds in wisdom : and, the cloud is not rent under Him . For so many measures of waters lie upon the clouds, yet they are not rent: but come down with all good order upon the earth. …