The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire. (Psalm 18:13)
Hail stones and coals of fire.
Repeated from
v. 12, as if, by repetition, to emphasize the awful impression.
The thunder represents the voice of God, as suggested in the parallel structure of the verse (see
Ps. 29, especially
v. 3; cf.
Job 40:9).
The preposition “in,” Heb. be, should here be translated “from,” according to a usage demonstrated in Ugaritic literature (see pp. 618, 619).