Psalms 18:9

King James Version 1611 (Original)

He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.

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  • Deut 5:22-23 : 22 These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me. 23 And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;
  • Deut 33:26 : 26 There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.
  • 2 Sam 22:10 : 10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.
  • Ps 68:4 : 4 Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.
  • Ps 144:5-9 : 5 Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. 6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them. 7 Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children; 8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood. 9 I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee. 10 It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword. 11 Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood: 12 That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace: 13 That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets: 14 That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets. 15 Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.
  • Isa 51:6 : 6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
  • Joel 3:16 : 16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
  • Matt 24:29 : 29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
  • Mark 15:33 : 33 And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
  • John 13:7 : 7 Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.
  • Heb 12:26 : 26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
  • 2 Pet 3:10 : 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
  • Rev 20:11 : 11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    8 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.

    9 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

    10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.

    11 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind.

    12 And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

    13 Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.

    14 The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.

  • Ps 18:10-13
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    83%

    10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.

    11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

    12 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.

    13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.

  • Ps 18:7-8
    2 verses
    78%

    7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.

    8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

  • 5 Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

  • Job 26:8-9
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    8 He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.

    9 He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it.

  • Mic 1:3-4
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    3 For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.

    4 And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.

  • Hab 3:3-6
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    3 God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.

    4 And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.

    5 Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.

    6 He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.

  • Job 22:13-14
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    13 And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

    14 Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.

  • Ps 104:2-3
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    2 Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:

    3 Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:

  • Ps 97:2-4
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    2 Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.

    3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.

    4 His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.

  • 3 When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.

  • Ps 77:17-18
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    17 The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.

    18 The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.

  • 9 When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,

  • 1 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,

  • 8 Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.

  • 18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

  • 23 Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,

  • 8 The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

  • 5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.

  • 11 And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.

  • 9 Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?

  • 32 With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.

  • 6 He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.

  • 3 He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.

  • 4 LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.

  • 25 And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings.

  • 3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

  • 6 Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth!

  • 2 Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:

  • 29 Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?