An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

This is the first time that we have the word Thunder expressed in the text, though the sense of the whole place speaks thunder.¹ The word which signifieth Thunder, signifieth any great noise or dreadful cry (Ezek. 27.35.) (Psal. 96.11.) it signifieth also the voice of any one that complaineth or bemoaneth his or her condition, or that is troubled or fretted at the crossness of relations: It is said of Peninnah, she provoked her (that is, Hannah) sore (or, as the Margin reads it, angered her) for to make her fret, because the Lord had shut up her womb: The word is that of the text, to make her thunder, or to cause a tumultuation in her spirit, like that in the Clouds,² when heat and cold contend for the masteries.

This is the first time that we have the word Thunder exprest in the text, though the sense of the whole place speakes thunder.¹ The word which signifieth Thunder, signifieth any great noise or dreadful cry (Ezek. 27.35.) (Psal. 96.11.) it signifieth also the voice of any one that complaineth or bemoaneth his or her condition, or that is troubled or fretted at the crosness of relations: It is said of Peninnah, she provoked her (that is, Hannah) sore (or, as the Margin reads it, angred her) for to make her fret, because the Lord had shut up her womb: The word is that of the text, to make her thunder, or to cause a tumultuation in her spirit, like that in the Clouds,² when heat and cold contend for the masteryes.

1. 1[Greek or Hebrew] Tonuit, intonuit, commotus fuit prae indignatione. Tonitru est fragor editus ex plaga compactorum ignium e nube erumpeutium. Plin.