Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 135:7

7 He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth , he maketh lightnings for the rain : he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries .

Which are the matter of clouds and rain.

Either, 1. from the Sea, the common source of vapors, 1 Kings 18. 44. Amos 5. 8. wherewith both the earth in general, and several particular countries, are terminated or bounded: o[illegible: 1+ letters] rather, 2. from all parts of the earth from one end to another, as the borders of a land are commonly put for the whole land from one border to another, as Psal. 105. 31, 33. & 147. 14. and oft elsewhere. For in this sence this phrase is generally used in Scripture, as Iob 28. 24. & 38. 13. Psal. 19. 4, 6. & 48. 10. and every where.

He bringeth water even out of the fire: he maketh thick clouds, which being broken, produce lightnings, and so are dissolved into showers of rain. So the lightnings are both a sign and in some sort the cause of rain. Or, he maketh lightnings with (as this Particle is used Gen. 46. 26. Psal. 89. 4. & 119. 56, 98.) rain, i. e. he causeth both of them to come out of the same cloud.

Out of those secret places where he reserves them, and whence he bringeth them, as he sees fit. Thus we read of treasures of snow and hail, Iob 38. 22. not that they are formally laid up in any certain places, but to signifie that God hath them as much at his disposal as any man hath th[illegible: 1+ letters] which he hath laid up in his stores.

Marginal references: Jer. 10. 13. & 51. 16[illegible: 1+ letters]; Gr. clouds. So Prov. 25. 14.; Job 38. 24▪ &c. Zech. 10. 1.