Psalms 97:2

World English Bible (2000)

Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 89:14 : 14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.
  • Exod 19:9 : 9 Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever." Moses told the words of the people to Yahweh.
  • Ps 99:4 : 4 The King's strength also loves justice. You do establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.
  • Prov 16:12 : 12 It is an abomination for kings to do wrong, for the throne is established by righteousness.
  • Rom 11:33 : 33 Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
  • Heb 1:8-9 : 8 But of the Son he says, "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom. 9 You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows."
  • Gen 18:25 : 25 Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"
  • Nah 1:3 : 3 Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
  • Exod 20:21 : 21 The people stayed at a distance, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.
  • Exod 24:16-18 : 16 The glory of Yahweh settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud. 17 The appearance of the glory of Yahweh was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel. 18 Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
  • Deut 4:11-12 : 11 You came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness. 12 Yahweh spoke to you out of the midst of the fire: you heard the voice of words, but you saw no form; only [you heard] a voice.
  • 1 Kgs 8:10-12 : 10 It came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of Yahweh, 11 so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for the glory of Yahweh filled the house of Yahweh. 12 Then Solomon said, "Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
  • Ps 18:11-12 : 11 He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies. 12 At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire.
  • Ps 45:6-7 : 6 Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom. 7 You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
  • Ps 77:19 : 19 Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.

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