the Week of Proper 6 / Ordinary 11
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THE MESSAGE
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.
Hailstones and fiery coals lit up the sky in front of you.
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
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 fell flat on his face. And then he laughed, thinking, "Can a hundred-year-old man father a son? And can Sarah, at ninety years, have a baby?"
Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah. He said, "Hurry. Get three cups of our best flour; knead it and make bread."
Then Abraham ran to the cattle pen and picked out a nice plump calf and gave it to the servant who lost no time getting it ready. Then he got curds and milk, brought them with the calf that had been roasted, set the meal before the men, and stood there under the tree while they ate.
Abraham and Sarah were old by this time, very old. Sarah was far past the age for having babies. Sarah laughed within herself, "An old woman like me? Get pregnant? With this old man of a husband?"
God said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh saying, ‘Me? Have a baby? An old woman like me?' Is anything too hard for God ? I'll be back about this time next year and Sarah will have a baby."
God continued, "The cries of the victims in Sodom and Gomorrah are deafening; the sin of those cities is immense. I'm going down to see for myself, see if what they're doing is as bad as it sounds. Then I'll know."
Cultivate Inner Beauty The same goes for you wives: Be good wives to your husbands, responsive to their needs. There are husbands who, indifferent as they are to any words about God, will be captivated by your life of holy beauty. What matters is not your outer appearance—the styling of your hair, the jewelry you wear, the cut of your clothes—but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle, gracious kind that God delights in. The holy women of old were beautiful before God that way, and were good, loyal wives to their husbands. Sarah, for instance, taking care of Abraham, would address him as "my dear husband." You'll be true daughters of Sarah if you do the same, unanxious and unintimidated.
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-
