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Psalms 18:12

Before his shining light his dark clouds went past, raining ice and fire.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God;   Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena;   Readings, Select;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Clouds;   Fire;   Psalms, the Book of;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Beth-Horon;   Coal;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Clouds;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Apocalyptic Literature;   David;   English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Jonah;   Kingdom of God;   Psalms;   Salvation, Saviour;   Sin;   Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Fire;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - David;   Psalms the book of;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Coal;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Hailstones;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Cloud;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bush, the Burning;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Burning Bush;   Cosmogony;   Darkness;   Shirah, Pereḳ (Pirḳe);   Theophany;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
From the radiance of his presence,his clouds swept onward with hail and blazing coals.
Hebrew Names Version
At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, Hailstones and coals of fire.
King James Version
At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
English Standard Version
Out of the brightness before him hailstones and coals of fire broke through his clouds.
New Century Version
Out of the brightness of his presence came clouds with hail and lightning.
New English Translation
From the brightness in front of him came hail and fiery coals.
Amplified Bible
Out of the brightness before Him passed His thick clouds, Hailstones and coals of fire.
New American Standard Bible
From the brightness before Him passed His thick clouds, Hailstones and coals of fire.
World English Bible
At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, Hailstones and coals of fire.
Geneva Bible (1587)
At the brightnes of his presence his clouds passed, haylestones and coles of fire.
Legacy Standard Bible
From the brightness before Him passed His thick clouds,Hailstones and coals of fire.
Berean Standard Bible
From the brightness of His presence, His clouds advanced-hailstones and coals of fire.
Contemporary English Version
Hailstones and fiery coals lit up the sky in front of you.
Complete Jewish Bible
He made darkness his hiding-place, his canopy thick clouds dark with water.
Darby Translation
From the brightness before him his thick clouds passed forth: hail and coals of fire.
Easy-to-Read Version
Out of the brightness before him, hail broke through the clouds with flashes of lightning.
George Lamsa Translation
Out of the brightness of his shadow his clouds rained hailstones and coals of fire.
Good News Translation
Hailstones and flashes of fire came from the lightning before him and broke through the dark clouds.
Lexham English Bible
From the brightness before him his clouds passed over with hail and coals of fire.
Literal Translation
Out of the brightness before Him, His dark clouds passed through, hailstones and coals of fire.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
At the brightnes off his presence the cloudes remoued, with hale stones & coales of fyre.
American Standard Version
At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, Hailstones and coals of fire.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He made darkness His hiding-place, His pavilion round about Him;
King James Version (1611)
At the brightnes that was before him his thicke clouds passed, haile stones and coales of fire.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
His cloudes, haylestones, and coles of fire: fell downe before hym after lyghtnyng.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
At the brightness before him the clouds passed, hail and coals of fire.
English Revised Version
At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he settide derknesses his hidyng place, his tabernacle `in his cumpas; derk water was in the cloudes of the lowere eir.
Update Bible Version
At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, Hailstones and coals of fire.
Webster's Bible Translation
At the brightness [that was] before him his thick clouds passed, hail [stones] and coals of fire.
New King James Version
From the brightness before Him, His thick clouds passed with hailstones and coals of fire.
New Living Translation
Thick clouds shielded the brightness around him and rained down hail and burning coals.
New Life Bible
Through the light before Him passed His dark clouds, hail stones and fire.
New Revised Standard
Out of the brightness before him there broke through his clouds hailstones and coals of fire.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Out of the brightness before him, his clouds rolled along, hail, and live coals of fire.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(17-13) At the brightness that was before him the clouds passed, hail and coals of fire.
Revised Standard Version
Out of the brightness before him there broke through his clouds hailstones and coals of fire.
Young's Literal Translation
From the brightness over-against Him His thick clouds have passed on, Hail and coals of fire.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
From the brightness before Him passed His thick clouds, Hailstones and coals of fire.

Contextual Overview

1 I will give you my love, O Lord, my strength. 2 The Lord is my Rock, my walled town, and my saviour; my God, my Rock, in him will I put my faith; my breastplate, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. 3 I will send up my cry to the Lord, who is to be praised; so will I be made safe from those who are against me. 4 The cords of death were round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear. 5 The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me. 6 In my trouble my voice went up to the Lord, and my cry to my God: my voice came to his hearing in his holy Temple, and my prayer came before him, even into his ears. 7 Then trouble and shock came on the earth; and the bases of the mountains were moved and shaking, because he was angry. 8 There went up a smoke from his nose, and a fire of destruction from his mouth: flames were lighted by it. 9 The heavens were bent, so that he might come down; and it was dark under his feet. 10 And he went in flight through the air, seated on a storm-cloud: going quickly on the wings of the wind.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

At the: Psalms 97:3, Psalms 97:4, Habakkuk 3:4, Habakkuk 3:5, Matthew 17:2, Matthew 17:5

hail: Exodus 9:23, Exodus 9:24, Joshua 10:11, 2 Samuel 22:13-15, Revelation 16:21

Reciprocal: Exodus 19:9 - Lo Exodus 20:21 - thick Deuteronomy 32:24 - burning heat 2 Samuel 22:12 - made Job 41:21 - General Psalms 97:2 - Clouds Proverbs 12:26 - but Isaiah 50:3 - General Ezekiel 10:2 - coals Ezekiel 13:13 - and great Ezekiel 38:22 - an overflowing Habakkuk 3:11 - at the light of thine arrows they went Revelation 8:7 - hail Revelation 11:19 - and great

Cross-References

Genesis 17:17
Then Abraham went down on his face, and laughing, said in his heart, May a man a hundred years old have a child? will Sarah, at ninety years old, give birth?
Genesis 18:6
Then Abraham went quickly into the tent, and said to Sarah, Get three measures of meal straight away and make cakes.
Genesis 18:7
And running to the herd, he took a young ox, soft and fat, and gave it to the servant and he quickly made it ready;
Genesis 18:11
Now Abraham and Sarah were very old, and Sarah was past the time for giving birth.
Genesis 18:12
And Sarah, laughing to herself, said, Now that I am used up am I still to have pleasure, my husband himself being old?
Genesis 18:13
And the Lord said, Why was Sarah laughing and saying, Is it possible for me, being old, to give birth to a child?
Genesis 18:18
Seeing that Abraham will certainly become a great and strong nation, and his name will be used by all the nations of the earth as a blessing?
Genesis 18:20
And the Lord said, Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is very great, and their sin is very evil,
Psalms 126:2
Then our mouths were full of laughing, and our tongues gave a glad cry; they said among the nations, The Lord has done great things for them.
Ephesians 5:33
But do you, everyone, have love for his wife, even as for himself; and let the wife see that she has respect for her husband.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

At the brightness [that was] before him, The lightning that came out of the thick clouds; which may denote, either the coming of Christ to take vengeance on the Jewish nation, which was swift and sudden, clear and manifest; or the spreading of the Gospel in the Gentile world, in which Christ, the brightness of his Father's glory, appeared to the illumination of many; see Matthew 24:27; and both may be intended, as the effects following show;

his thick clouds passed; that is, passed away; the gross darkness, which had for so many years covered the Gentile world, was removed when God sent forth his light and truth; and multitudes, who were darkness itself, were made light in the Lord;

hail [stones] and coals of fire; the same Gospel that was enlightening to the Gentiles, and the savour of life unto life unto them, was grievous, like hail stones, and tormenting, scorching, irritating, and provoking, like coals of fire, and the savour of death unto death, to the Jews; when God provoked them, by sending the Gospel among the Gentiles, and calling them: or these may design the heavy, awful, and consuming judgments of God upon them, which are sometimes signified by hail storms; see Revelation 8:7. In 2 Samuel 22:13, it is only, "through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled".

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

At the brightness that was before him - From the flash - the play of the lightnings that seemed to go before him.

His thick clouds passed - or, vanished. They seemed to pass away. The light, the flash, the blaze, penetrated those clouds, and seemed to dispel, or to scatter them. The whole heavens were in a blaze, as if there were no clouds, or as if the clouds were all driven away. The reference here is to the appearance when the vivid flashes of lightning seem to penetrate and dispel the clouds, and the heavens seem to be lighted up with a universal flame.

Hail-stones - That is, hailstones followed, or fell.

And coals of fire - There seemed to be coals of fire rolling along the ground, or falling from the sky. In the corresponding place in 2 Samuel 22:13 the expression is, “Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.” That is, fires were kindled by the lightning. The expression in the psalm is more terse and compact, but the reason of the change cannot be assigned.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 18:12. At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed — The word נגה nogah signifies the lightning. This goes before him: the flash is seen before the thunder is heard, and before the rain descends; and then the thick cloud passes. Its contents are precipitated on the earth, and the cloud is entirely dissipated.

Hail-stones and coals of fire. — This was the storm that followed the flash and the peal; for it is immediately added-


 
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