Psalm 18:9 {17:10}
Good News Translation
He tore the sky open and came down with a dark cloud under his feet.

New Revised Standard Version
He bowed the heavens, and came down; thick darkness was under his feet.

Contemporary English Version
You opened the heavens like curtains, and you came down with storm clouds under your feet.

New American Bible
He parted the heavens and came down, a dark cloud under his feet.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He bowed the heavens, and came down, and darkness was under his feet.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

He bowed.

Psalm 68:4 Sing ye to God, sing a psalm to his name, make a way for him who ascendeth upon the west: the Lord is his name. Rejoice ye before him: but the wicked shall be troubled at his presence,

Psalm 144:5 Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

Deuteronomy 33:26 There is no other god like the God of the rightest: he that is mounted upon the heaven is thy helper. By his magnificence the clouds run hither and thither.

2 Samuel 22:10 He bowed the heavens, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.

Isaiah 51:6 Lift up your eyes to heaven, and look down to the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish like smoke, and the earth shall be worn away like a garment, and the inhabitants thereof shall perish in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my justice shall not fail.

Joel 3:16 And the Lord shall roar out of Sion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem: and the heavens and the earth shall be moved, and the Lord shall be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.

Matthew 24:29 And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give her light and the stars shall fall from heaven and the powers of heaven shall be moved.

Hebrews 12:26 Whose voice then moved the earth; but now he promiseth, saying: Yet once more: and I will move, not only the earth, but heaven also.

2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord shall come as a thief, in which the heavens shall pass away with great violence and the elements shall be melted with heat and the earth and the works which are in it shall be burnt up.

Revelation 20:11 And I saw a great white throne and one sitting upon it, from whose face the earth and heaven fled away: and there was no place found for them

darkness

Deuteronomy 5:22,23 These words the Lord spoke to all the multitude of you in the mountain, out of the midst of the fire and the cloud, and the darkness, with a loud voice, adding nothing more: and he wrote them in two tables of stone, which he delivered unto me. . . .

Mark 15:33 And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole earth until the ninth hour.

John 13:7 Jesus answered and said to him: What I do, thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.

Context
The LORD is My Rock
8There went up a smoke in his wrath: and a fire flamed from his face: coals were kindled by it. 9He bowed the heavens, and came down, and darkness was under his feet.10And he ascended upon the cherubim, and he flew; he flew upon the wings of the winds.…
Cross References
Psalm 68:8
The earth was moved, and the heavens dropped at the presence of the God of Sina, at the presence of the God of Israel.

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

Psalm 144:5
Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

Isaiah 19:1
The burden of Egypt. Behold the Lord will ascend upon a swift cloud, and will enter into Egypt, and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst thereof.

Isaiah 64:1
O that thou wouldst rend the heavens, and wouldst come down: the mountains would melt away at thy presence.

Psalm 18:8
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