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Psalms 18:9

Psalms 18:9 is verse 9 of Psalms chapter 18, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

He parted the heavens and came down with dark clouds beneath His feet.

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King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

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Psalms 18:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible

7 Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains trembled; they were shaken because He burned with anger.

8 Smoke rose from His nostrils, and consuming fire came from His mouth; glowing coals blazed forth.

9 He parted the heavens and came down with dark clouds beneath His feet.

10 He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.

11 He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 68:4

Sing to God! Sing praises to His name. Exalt Him who rides on the clouds — His name is the LORD— and rejoice before Him.

Psalms 144:5

Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.

Psalms 144:6

Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them.

Psalms 144:7

Reach down from on high; set me free and rescue me from the deep waters, from the grasp of foreigners,

Psalms 144:8

whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.

Psalms 144:9

I will sing to You a new song, O God; on a harp of ten strings I will make music to You—

Psalms 144:10

to Him who gives victory to kings, who frees His servant David from the deadly sword.

Psalms 144:11

Set me free and rescue me from the grasp of foreigners, whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.

Psalms 144:12

Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.

Psalms 144:13

Our storehouses will be full, supplying all manner of produce; our flocks will bring forth thousands, tens of thousands in our fields.

Psalms 144:14

Our oxen will bear great loads. There will be no breach in the walls, no going into captivity, and no cry of lament in our streets.

Psalms 144:15

Blessed are the people of whom this is so; blessed are the people whose God is the LORD.

Deuteronomy 33:26

“There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to your aid, and the clouds in His majesty.

2 Samuel 22:10

He parted the heavens and came down with dark clouds beneath His feet.

Isaiah 51:6

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth below; for the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and its people will die like gnats. But My salvation will last forever, and My righteousness will never fail.

Joel 3:16

The LORD will roar from Zion and raise His voice from Jerusalem; heaven and earth will tremble. But the LORD will be a refuge for His people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.

Matthew 24:29

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 the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.’

Hebrews 12:26

At that time His voice shook the earth, but now He has promised, “Once more I will shake not only the earth, but heaven as well.”

2 Peter 3:10

But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and its works will be laid bare.

Revelation 20:11

Then I saw a great white throne and the One seated on it. Earth and heaven fled from His presence, and no place was found for them.

Deuteronomy 5:22

The LORD spoke these commandments in a loud voice to your whole assembly out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.

Deuteronomy 5:23

And when you heard the voice out of the darkness while the mountain was blazing with fire, all the heads of your tribes and your elders approached me,

Mark 15:33

From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.

John 13:7

Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.”

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