Charles Ellicott Commentary Jeremiah 10:13

"when he uttereth his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasuries." — Jeremiah 10:13 (ASV)

A multitude of waters. — Better, a rush of waters, following the thunder, which is thought of as the voice of God . The prophet finds the signs of Almighty Power both in the fixed order of the Cosmos and its most catastrophic perturbations. The strict construction of the Hebrew reads, At the voice of His giving the roar of waters.

He makes lightnings. — The last half of the verse agrees verbally with Psalm 135:7 (see the note on that verse), and one is obviously a quotation from the other, or both are from some common source. We have no data, however, for saying which is the older of the two. The idea of the “treasure chambers” from which the winds are brought appears in Job 38:22.