Psalms 18:9

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 5:22-23 : 22 These words Yahweh spoke to all your assembly on the mountain out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. He wrote them on two tables of stone, and gave them to me. 23 It happened, when you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning 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 God, Jeshurun, who rides on the heavens for your help, In his excellency on the skies.
  • 2 Sam 22:10 : 10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.
  • Ps 68:4 : 4 Sing to God! Sing praises to his name! Extol him who rides on the clouds: to Yah, his name! Rejoice before him!
  • Ps 144:5-9 : 5 Part your heavens, Yahweh, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke. 6 Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them. 7 Stretch out your hand from above, rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hands of foreigners; 8 whose mouths speak deceit, Whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood. 9 I will sing a new song to you, God. On a ten-stringed lyre, I will sing praises to you. 10 You are he who gives salvation to kings, who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword. 11 Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hands of foreigners, whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood. 12 Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace. 13 Our barns are full, filled with all kinds of provision. Our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields. 14 Our oxen will pull heavy loads. There is no breaking in, and no going away, and no outcry in our streets. 15 Happy are the people who are in such a situation. Happy are the people whose God is Yahweh. A praise psalm by David.
  • Isa 51:6 : 6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment; and those who dwell therein shall die in the same way: but my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
  • Joel 3:16 : 16 Yahweh will roar from Zion, and thunder from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will shake; but Yahweh will be a refuge to his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel.
  • Matt 24:29 : 29 But immediately after the oppression of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;
  • Mark 15:33 : 33 When the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
  • John 13:7 : 7 Jesus answered him, "You don't know what I am doing now, but you will understand later."
  • Heb 12:26 : 26 whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens."
  • 2 Pet 3:10 : 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
  • Rev 20:11 : 11 I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.

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    8 Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations of heaven quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.

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    11 He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he was seen on the wings of the wind.

    12 He made darkness pavilions around himself: gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

    13 At the brightness before him, coals of fire were kindled.

    14 Yahweh thundered from heaven. The Most High uttered his voice.

  • Ps 18:10-13
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    10 He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.

    11 He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

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    7 Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.

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    5 Part your heavens, Yahweh, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.

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    13 You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

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  • Ps 97:2-4
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    3 A fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries on every side.

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    25 There was a voice above the expanse that was over their heads: when they stood, they let down their wings.

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