It is sharpened to slaughter a slaughter, {polished to flash like lightning}! Or will we rejoice? A rod, my son, [is] despising every tree.

Flash forth lightning and scatter them; dispatch your arrows and rout them.

The chariots race madly through the streets; they rush back and forth in the public squares. Their appearance like lightning bolts, they dart about like flashes of lightning.

And you, son of man, prophesy, and you must say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the {Ammonites} and concerning their disgrace,' and you must say, 'A sword, a sword [is] drawn for slaughtering; [it is] polished for holding, {for flashing like lightning},

Then Yahweh will appear over them, and his arrow will go forth like lightning; and my Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet, and he shall go out in the storm winds of [the] south.

{When he utters his voice} [there is] a noise of water in the heavens, and he causes [the] mist to rise from [the] ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and he causes [the] wind to go out from his storehouses.

At the giving of his voice [there is] a roar of waters in the heavens, and he causes [the] patches of mist to go up from [the] end of [the] earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and he brings out [the] wind from his storehouses.

As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance [was] like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches. It [was] moving to and fro between the living creatures, and {the fire was very bright} and lightning [was] going out from the fire.

And the living creatures {were speeding to and fro} like the appearance of lightning.

Look, he scatters his lightning around him, and he covers the roots of the sea.

He covers [his] hands [with] lightning, and he commands it the place at [which] to strike.

He lets it loose under all the heavens, and his lightning to the earth's corners.

Also, he loads down thick clouds with moisture; his lightning scatters [the] clouds.

Do you know {how God commands them} and [how] he causes his cloud's lightning to shine?

{when he made} a rule for the rain and a way for [the] thunder's lightning bolt,

And he shot his arrows and scattered them, and many lightning bolts and routed them.

He also handed their cattle over to the hail and their livestock to the lightning bolts.

He gave hail for their rains [and the] fire of lightning in their land.

Now his body [was] like turquoise, and his face [was] like [the] appearance of lightning, and his eyes [were] like torches of fire, and his arms and his legs [were] like [the] gleam of polished bronze, and the sound of his words [was] like [the] sound of a multitude.

{And} on the third day, when it was morning, there was thunder and lightning, and a heavy cloud over the mountain and a very loud ram's horn sound, and all the people who [were] in the camp trembled.

And all the people [were] seeing the thunder and the lightning and the sound of the ram's horn and the mountain smoking, and the people saw, and they trembled, and they stood at a distance.

He sent arrows and he scattered them, lightning, and he directed them.

Why does your heart carry you away? And why do your eyes flash,

Upon it [the] quiver rattles [along with] [the] flash of [the] spear and [the] short sword.

The one who makes destruction flash upon [the] fierce, {so that} destruction comes upon [the] fortification.

Chariots charge! Swords flash! Spears glitter! {Many corpses are piled high}! There is no end to the slain! They stumble over their dead!

For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not flash forth their light; the sun will keep back when it comes out, and [the] moon will not cause its light to shine.

Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love [is] strong as death; passion [is] fierce as Sheol; its flashes [are] flashes of fire; [it is] a blazing flame.

Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go? And will they say to you, 'Here we are'?

The sound of your thunder [was] in the whirlwind; lightnings lit [the] world; the earth shook and quaked.

His lightnings light [the] world; the earth sees and trembles.

[He] causes clouds to rise from the edge of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain; [he] brings out [the] wind from his storehouses.

And there was hail, and fire [was] flashing back and forth in the midst of the very severe hail, the like of which was not in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.

When I sharpen {my flashing sword}, and my hand takes hold [of it] in judgment, {I will take reprisals against my foes}, and my haters I will repay.

And I looked, and look! A storm wind [was] coming from the north, a great cloud, and fire flashing back and forth, and brightness around [and] {within it}, and from its midst [it was] like [the] outward appearance of amber stone from the midst of the fire.

"Its snorting flashes forth light, and its eyes [are] {red like dawn}.

so that a heart melts, and the fallen {multiply} at all of their gates. I gave a sword for slaughter, [and] alas! It is made for flashing, it is grasped for slaughtering.

The voice of Yahweh flashes flames of fire.

And his brightness was like [the] light; flashing rays [came] from his hand for him; And there [is] the covering of his strength.

Sun [and] moon stood still in [their] place; at the light of your arrows they moved about; at the gleam of the flashing of your spear.