Revelation 14:2

14:2 I also heard a sound ¹  coming out of heaven like the sound of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder. Now ²  the sound I heard was like that made by harpists playing their harps,

Revelation 19:6

The Wedding Celebration of the Lamb

19:6 Then ³  I heard what sounded like the voice of a vast throng, like the roar of many waters and like loud crashes of thunder. They were shouting: ⁴ 

“Hallelujah!

For the Lord our God, ⁵  the All-Powerful, ⁶  reigns!

Psalms 93:4

93:4 Above the sound of the surging water, ⁷ 

and the mighty waves of the sea,

the Lord sits enthroned in majesty. ⁸ 

Isaiah 17:13

17:13 Though these people make an uproar as loud as the roaring of powerful waves, ⁹ 

when he shouts at ¹⁰  them, they will flee to a distant land,

driven before the wind like dead weeds on the hills,

or like dead thistles ¹¹  before a strong gale.

Ezekiel 43:2

43:2 I saw ¹²  the glory of the God of Israel ¹³  coming from the east; ¹⁴  the sound was like that of rushing water; ¹⁵  and the earth radiated ¹⁶  his glory.

¹ tn Or “a voice” (cf. Rev 1:15), but since in this context nothing is mentioned as the content of the voice, it is preferable to translate φωνή (fwnh) as “sound” here.

² tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the introduction of a new topic.

³ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence within the narrative.

⁴ tn Grk “like the voice of a large crowd…saying.” Because of the complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation by supplying the words “They were.”

⁵ tc Several mss (א² P 1611 2053 2344 pc Ï^K lat ) read “the Lord our God” (κύριος ὁ θεός ἡμῶν, kurio" Jo qeo" Jhmwn). Other important mss (A 1006 1841 pc), however, omit the “our” (ἡμῶν). Further, certain mss (051 Ï^A) omit “Lord” (κύριος), while others (including א*) change the order of the statement to “God our Lord” (ὁ θεός ὁ κύριος ἡμῶν). The expression “the Lord God, the All-Powerful” occurs in 6 other places in Revelation (1:8; 4:8; 11:17; 15:3; 16:7; 21:22) and the pronoun “our” is never used. Scribes familiar with the expression in this book, and especially with the frequent κύριος ὁ θεὸς ὁ παντοκράτωρ (kurio" Jo qeo" Jo pantokratwr; “the Lord God, the All-Powerful”) in the OT Prophets (LXX; cf. Jer 39:19; Hos 12:6; Amos 3:13; 4:13; 5:8, 14, 15, 16, 27; 9:5, 6, 15; Nah 3:5; Zech 10:3), would naturally omit the pronoun. Its presence may have arisen due to liturgical motivations or to conform to the expression “our God” in 19:1, 5, but this seems much less likely than an aversion to using the pronoun here and only here in the Greek Bible in the fuller title κύριος ὁ θεὸς ὁ παντοκράτωρ.

⁶ tn On this word BDAG 755 s.v. παντοκράτωρ states, “the Almighty, All-Powerful, Omnipotent (One) only of God…(ὁ) κύριος ὁ θεὸς ὁ π. …Rv 1:8; 4:8; 11:17; 15:3; 16:7; 21:22…κύριος ὁ θεὸς ἡμῶν ὁ π. Rv 19:6.”

⁷ tn Heb “mighty waters.”

⁸ tn Heb “mighty on high [is] the Lord.”

⁹ tn Heb “the peoples are in an uproar like the uproar of mighty waters.”

¹⁰ tn Or “rebukes.” The verb and related noun are used in theophanies of God’s battle cry which terrifies his enemies. See, for example, Pss 18:15; 76:7; 106:9; Isa 50:2; Nah 1:4, and A. Caquot, TDOT 3:49-53.

¹¹ tn Or perhaps “tumbleweed” (NAB, NIV, CEV); KJV “like a rolling thing.”

¹² tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.

¹³ sn This same title appears in 8:4; 9:3; 10:19; and 11:22.

¹⁴ sn Earlier Ezekiel had observed God leaving the temple to the east (11:23).

¹⁵ sn See Ezek 1:24; Rev 1:15; 14:2; 19:6.

¹⁶ tn Heb “shone from.”