Psalm 18:11 {17:12}
Good News Translation
He covered himself with darkness; thick clouds, full of water, surrounded him.

New Revised Standard Version
He made darkness his covering around him, his canopy thick clouds dark with water.

Contemporary English Version
Darkness was your robe; thunderclouds filled the sky, hiding you from sight.

New American Bible
He made darkness his cloak around him; his canopy, water-darkened stormclouds.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he made darkness his cover, his pavilion round about him: dark waters in the clouds of the air.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he made darkness his cover, his pavilion round about him: dark waters in the clouds of the air.

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Psalm 27:5 For he hath hidden me in his tabernacle; in the day of evils, he hath protected me in the secret place of his tabernacle.

Psalm 81:7 Thou calledst upon me in affliction, and I delivered thee: I heard thee in the secret place of tempest: I proved thee at the waters of contradiction.

Psalm 91:1 The praise of a canticle for David. He that dwelleth in the aid of the most High, shall abide under the protection of the God of Jacob.

thick

Psalm 97:2 Clouds and darkness are round about him: justice and judgment are the establishment of his throne.

Deuteronomy 4:11 And you came to the foot of the mount, which burned even unto heaven: and there was darkness, and a cloud and obscurity in it.

Joel 2:2 A day of darkness, and of gloominess, a day of clouds and whirlwinds: a numerous and strong people as the morning spread upon the mountains: the like to it hath not been from the beginning, nor shall be after it, even to the years of generation and generation.

Context
The LORD is My Rock
10And he ascended upon the cherubim, and he flew; he flew upon the wings of the winds. 11And he made darkness his cover, his pavilion round about him: dark waters in the clouds of the air.12At the brightness that was before him the clouds passed, hail and coals of fire.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:11
And you came to the foot of the mount, which burned even unto heaven: and there was darkness, and a cloud and obscurity in it.

1 Kings 8:12
Then Solomon said: The Lord said that he would dwell in a cloud.

Psalm 97:2
Clouds and darkness are round about him: justice and judgment are the establishment of his throne.

Isaiah 40:22
It is he that sitteth upon the globe of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as locusts: he that stretcheth out the heavens as nothing, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in.

Jeremiah 43:10
And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold I will send, and take Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon my servant: and I will set his throne over these stones which I have hid, and he shall set his throne over them.

Psalm 18:10
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