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Psalm 105:32

He gave them hail for rain, with lightning in their land.

30Their land swarmed with frogs, even in the rooms of their kings.
31He spoke, and swarms of flies came, and lice in all their borders.
32He gave them hail for rain, with lightning in their land.
33He struck their vines and also their fig trees, and shattered the trees of their country.
34He spoke, and the locusts came with the grasshoppers, without number.
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Hail in place of rain makes this account of Egypt’s judgment unsettling: the God who gives water also sends destruction.

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Psalm 11:6On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.Both passages describe God sending destruction as rain, with hail in Psalm 105 and blazing coals in Psalm 11.
Psalm 78:47–48He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost.Both accounts name hail as God’s instrument of destruction, and both describe damage to vines in the surrounding account.
Revelation 8:7The first sounded, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and they were thrown to the earth. One third of the earth was burned up, and one third …Hail falls in both passages, and the destruction of trees appears in Revelation and in the next verse of Psalm 105.
Revelation 11:19God’s temple that is in heaven was opened, and the ark of the Lord’s covenant was seen in his temple. Lightnings, sounds, thunders, an earthquake, and great …Hail and lightning appear in both passages, with God named in each scene.
Exodus 9:18–28Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as has not been in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now.Exodus announces the severe hail God will send on Egypt; Psalm 105 recalls that hail falling in their land.
Revelation 16:21Great hailstones, about the weight of a talent, came down out of the sky on people. People blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for this plague …Both passages describe destructive hail, though Revelation also records people blaspheming God because of the plague.
Ezekiel 13:13“‘Therefore the Lord GOD says: “I will even tear it with a stormy wind in my wrath. There will be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in …Both passages attribute destructive hail to God; Ezekiel states his anger, while Psalm 105 recounts his action against Egypt.
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Encouragement

This account names God as the sender of Egypt’s hail. It gives no warrant to label every storm a judgment; it does show creation under his command.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).