"The Tempest of the Lord" is a symbol of God's punishment by the consequences of man's violation of the spiritual and moral Laws, the Commandments of God, which is expressed in manifestations of anxiety, alarm, uncertainty, unrest, extreme spiritual, psychological, physical upheaval of man or society.

"Storm" is also various social upheavals of nations, famines, epidemics, political, religious, economic conflicts, wars, disasters caused by the sinful activity of the rulers of the world and the peoples who have chosen them.

"Storm" is also a symbol of destruction, spiritual crisis and chaos in the soul of wicked man and in sinful living nations.