Psalms 18:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

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 spoke to all your assembly on the mountain out of the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a great voice: and He added no more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone, and delivered them to me. 23 And it happened, when you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain burned with fire,) that you came near to me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;
  • Deut 33:26 : 26 There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides upon the heavens to help you, and in his majesty 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 who rides upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.
  • Ps 144:5-9 : 5 Bow your heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. 6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out your arrows, and destroy them. 7 Send your hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of foreign children; 8 Whose mouth speaks vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood. 9 I will sing a new song to you, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings I will sing praises to you. 10 It is he that gives salvation to kings: who delivers David his servant from the hurtful sword. 11 Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of foreign children, whose mouth speaks 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 cornerstones, polished after the similitude of a palace: 13 That our garners may be full, providing 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 labor; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets. 15 Happy is that people who are in such a case: yes, 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 will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will grow old like a garment, and those who dwell in it will die in like manner: but my salvation will last forever, and my righteousness will 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 the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
  • Mark 15:33 : 33 And when the sixth hour came, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
  • John 13:7 : 7 Jesus answered and said to him, What I do you do not know now, but you shall know afterward.
  • Heb 12:26 : 26 Whose voice then shook the earth; but now he has promised, saying, "Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven."
  • 2 Pet 3:10 : 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in 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 in it shall be burned up.
  • Rev 20:11 : 11 And I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and heaven fled away; and there was no place found for them.

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

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