Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word:
Ver 8. Fire, and hail; snow, and vapours] This latter is the matter of those former meteors which he purposely mingleth with those forementioned miracles of land and waters, the more to set forth the power of God, because these seem to have no settledness of subsistence, and yet in them he is made visible.
Stormy wind fuelling his word] The winds blow not at random, but by a Divine decree; and God hath ordered that whether north or south blow they shall blow good to his people, Song of Solomon 4:16. He saith to all his creatures, as David did to his captains concerning Absalom, Handle them gently for my sake.