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Psalms 18:12
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From the radiance of his presence,his clouds swept onward with hail and blazing coals.
At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, Hailstones and coals of fire.
At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
Out of the brightness before him hailstones and coals of fire broke through his clouds.
Out of the brightness of his presence came clouds with hail and lightning.
From the brightness in front of him came hail and fiery coals.
Out of the brightness before Him passed His thick clouds, Hailstones and coals of fire.
From the brightness before Him passed His thick clouds, Hailstones and coals of fire.
At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, Hailstones and coals of fire.
At the brightnes of his presence his clouds passed, haylestones and coles of fire.
From the brightness before Him passed His thick clouds,Hailstones and coals of fire.
From the brightness of His presence, His clouds advanced-hailstones and coals of fire.
He made darkness his hiding-place, his canopy thick clouds dark with water.
From the brightness before him his thick clouds passed forth: hail and coals of fire.
Out of the brightness before him, hail broke through the clouds with flashes of lightning.
Out of the brightness of his shadow his clouds rained hailstones and coals of fire.
Hailstones and flashes of fire came from the lightning before him and broke through the dark clouds.
From the brightness before him his clouds passed over with hail and coals of fire.
Out of the brightness before Him, His dark clouds passed through, hailstones and coals of fire.
At the brightnes off his presence the cloudes remoued, with hale stones & coales of fyre.
At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, Hailstones and coals of fire.
Before his shining light his dark clouds went past, raining ice and fire.
He made darkness His hiding-place, His pavilion round about Him;
At the brightnes that was before him his thicke clouds passed, haile stones and coales of fire.
His cloudes, haylestones, and coles of fire: fell downe before hym after lyghtnyng.
At the brightness before him the clouds passed, hail and coals of fire.
At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire.
And he settide derknesses his hidyng place, his tabernacle `in his cumpas; derk water was in the cloudes of the lowere eir.
At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, Hailstones and coals of fire.
At the brightness [that was] before him his thick clouds passed, hail [stones] and coals of fire.
From the brightness before Him, His thick clouds passed with hailstones and coals of fire.
Thick clouds shielded the brightness around him and rained down hail and burning coals.
Through the light before Him passed His dark clouds, hail stones and fire.
Out of the brightness before him there broke through his clouds hailstones and coals of fire.
Out of the brightness before him, his clouds rolled along, hail, and live coals of fire.
(17-13) At the brightness that was before him the clouds passed, hail and coals of fire.
Out of the brightness before him there broke through his clouds hailstones and coals of fire.
From the brightness over-against Him His thick clouds have passed on, Hail and coals of fire.
From the brightness before Him passed His thick clouds, Hailstones and coals of fire.
Contextual Overview
(For the music leader. A psalm by David, the Lord 's servant. David sang this to the Lord after the Lord had rescued him from his enemies, but especially from Saul.)
I love you, Lord God, and you make me strong. 2 You are my mighty rock, my fortress, my protector, the rock where I am safe, my shield, my powerful weapon, and my place of shelter. 3 I praise you, Lord ! I prayed, and you rescued me from my enemies. 4 Death had wrapped its ropes around me, and I was almost swallowed by its flooding waters. 5 Ropes from the world of the dead had coiled around me, and death had set a trap in my path. 6 I was in terrible trouble when I called out to you, but from your temple you heard me and answered my prayer. 7 The earth shook and shivered, and the mountains trembled down to their roots. You were angry 8 and breathed out smoke. Scorching heat and fiery flames spewed from your mouth. 9 You opened the heavens like curtains, and you came down with storm clouds under your feet. 10 You rode on the backs of flying creatures and swooped down with the wind as wings.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
Abraham bowed with his face to the ground and thought, "I am almost a hundred years old. How can I become a father? And Sarah is ninety. How can she have a child?" So he started laughing.
Abraham quickly went to his tent and said to Sarah, "Hurry! Get a large sack of flour and make some bread."
After saying this, he rushed off to his herd of cattle and picked out one of the best calves, which his servant quickly prepared.
Abraham and Sarah were very old, and Sarah was well past the age for having children.
So she laughed and said to herself, "Now that I am worn out and my husband is old, will I really know such happiness?"
The Lord asked Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh? Does she doubt that she can have a child in her old age?
since his family will become a great and powerful nation that will be a blessing to all other nations on earth.
The Lord said, "Abraham, I have heard that the people of Sodom and Gomorrah are doing all kinds of evil things.
We celebrated with laughter and joyful songs. In foreign nations it was said, "The Lord has worked miracles for his people."
So each husband should love his wife as much as he loves himself, and each wife should respect 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-
