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Wycliffe Bible
Psalms 18:11
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He made darkness his hiding place,dark storm clouds his canopy around him.
He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion around him, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
He made darkness his covering, his canopy around him, thick clouds dark with water.
He made darkness his covering, his shelter around him, surrounded by fog and clouds.
He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds.
He made darkness His hiding place (covering); His pavilion (canopy) around Him, The darkness of the waters, the thick clouds of the skies.
He made darkness His hiding place, His canopy around Him, Darkness of waters, thick clouds.
He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion around him, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
He made darkenes his secrete place, and his pauilion round about him, euen darkenesse of waters, and cloudes of the ayre.
He made darkness His hiding place, His canopy around Him,Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him.
Darkness was your robe; thunderclouds filled the sky, hiding you from sight.
He rode on a keruv; he flew, swooping down on the wings of the wind.
He made darkness his secret place, his tent round about him: darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
He wrapped himself in darkness that covered him like a tent. He was hidden by dark clouds heavy with water.
He made darkness his covert; his pavilion round about him was darkness of waters and thick clouds of the skies.
He covered himself with darkness; thick clouds, full of water, surrounded him.
He made darkness his hiding place; all about him his covering was a darkness of waters, thick clouds.
He made darkness His covering, His pavilion all around Him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
He made darcknesse his pauylion rounde aboute hi, with darcke water & thicke cloudes to couer him.
He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion round about him, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
He made the dark his secret place; his tent round him was the dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
And He rode upon a cherub, and did fly; yea, He did swoop down upon the wings of the wind.
He made darkenes his secret place: his pauilion round about him, were darke waters, and thicke cloudes of the skies.
For his secrete place he dyd put darkenesse: and for his pauilion rounde about hym, he dyd put darknesse of waters in cloudes of the ayre.
And he made darkness his secret place: round about him was his tabernacle, even dark water in the clouds of the air.
He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion round about him; darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion round about him, Darkness of water, thick clouds of the skies.
He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion around him [were] dark waters [and] thick clouds of the skies.
He made darkness His secret place; His canopy around Him was dark waters And thick clouds of the skies.
He shrouded himself in darkness, veiling his approach with dark rain clouds.
He made darkness His hiding place, the covering around Him, the dark rain clouds of the sky.
He made darkness his covering around him, his canopy thick clouds dark with water.
Made darkness his hiding-place, Round about him - his pavilion, Darkness of waters, clouds of vapours.
(17-12) And he made darkness his covert, his pavilion round about him: dark waters in the clouds of the air.
He made darkness his covering around him, his canopy thick clouds dark with water.
He maketh darkness His secret place, Round about Him His tabernacle, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
He made darkness His hiding place, His canopy around Him, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
secret: Psalms 27:5, Psalms 81:7, Psalms 91:1
thick: Psalms 97:2, Deuteronomy 4:11, Joel 2:2
Reciprocal: Exodus 14:20 - General Exodus 19:9 - Lo Exodus 19:16 - thunders 1 Samuel 7:10 - thundered 2 Samuel 22:12 - made Job 26:8 - thick clouds Job 36:30 - and Job 36:32 - General Job 38:19 - darkness Psalms 104:3 - Who layeth Isaiah 50:3 - General Jeremiah 43:10 - his royal Ezekiel 1:4 - a great Daniel 3:17 - our God Matthew 17:5 - behold
Cross-References
Abraham felde doun on his face, and leiyede in his hert, and seide, Gessist thou, whethir a sone schal be borun to a man of an hundrid yeer, and Sara of nynti yeer schal bere child?
Abraham was of nynti yeer and nyne whanne he circumsidide the fleisch of his yeerd,
Forsothe bothe weren olde, and of greet age, and wommans termes ceessiden to be maad to Sare.
And she leiyede, seiynge pryueli, after that Y wexede eld, and my lord is eld, schal Y yyue diligence to lust?
sithen he schal be in to a greet folk and moost strong, and alle naciouns of erthe schulen be blessid in hym?
and schal se whether thei han fillid in werk the cry that cam to me, that Y wite whether it is not so.
My lord, be not wrooth that Y may not rise bifore thee, for it bifelde now to me bi the custom of wymmen; so the bisynesse of the sekere was scorned.
A womman that suffrith the fletyng out of blood, whanne the moneth cometh ayen, schal be departid bi seuene daies; ech man that touchith hir schal be vncleene `til to euentid,
And thei hadden no child, for Elizabeth was bareyn, and bothe weren of grete age in her daies.
And Zacarie seide to the aungel, Wherof schal Y wite this? for Y am eld, and my wijf hath gon fer in to hir daies.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
He made darkness his secret place,.... Which, and the dark waters in the next clause, are the same with the thick clouds in the last, in which Jehovah is represented as wrapping himself, and in which he lies hid as in a secret place; not so as that he cannot see others, as wicked men imagine, Job 22:13; but as that he cannot be beheld by others; the Targum interprets it,
"he caused his Shechinah to dwell in darkness;''
his pavilion round about him [were] dark waters, [and] thick clouds of the skies; these were as a tent or tabernacle, in which he dwelt unseen by men; see Job 36:29; all this may design the dark dispensation of the Jews, after their rejection and crucifixion of Christ; when God departed from them, left their house desolate, and them without his presence and protection; when the light of the Gospel was taken away from them, and blindness happened unto them, and they had eyes that they should not see, and were given up to a judicial darkness of mind and hardness of heart; which were some of the dark, deep, and mysterious methods of divine Providence, with respect to which God may be said to be surrounded with darkness, dark waters, and thick clouds; see Romans 11:7.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
He made darkness his secret place - Herder has beautifully rendered this verse,
“Now he wrapped himself in darkness;
Clouds on clouds enclosed him round.”
The word rendered “secret place” - סתר sêther - means properly a hiding; then something hidden, private, secret. Hence, it means a covering, a veil. Compare Job 22:14; Job 24:15. In Psalms 81:7 it is applied to thunder: “I answered thee in the secret place of thunder;” that is, in the secret place or retreat - the deep, dark cloud, from where the thunder seems to come. Here the meaning seems to be, that God was encompassed with darkness. He had, as it were, wrapped himself in night, and made his abode in the gloom of the storm.
His pavilion - His tent, for so the word means. Compare Psalms 27:5; Psalms 31:20. His abode was in the midst of clouds and waters, or watery clouds.
Round about him - Perhaps a more literal translation would be, “the things round about him - his tent (shelter, or cover) - were the darkness of waters, the clouds of the skies.” The idea is that he seemed to be encompassed with watery clouds.
Dark waters - Hebrew, darkness of waters. The allusion is to clouds filled with water; charged with rain.
Thick clouds of the skies - The word rendered skies in this place - שׁחקים shachaqiym - means, in the singular, dust, as being fine; then a cloud, as a cloud of dust; then, in the plural, it is used to denote clouds, Job 38:37; and hence, it is used to denote the region of the clouds; the firmament; the sky; Job 37:18. Perhaps a not-inaccurate rendering here would be, “clouds of clouds;” that is, clouds rolled in with clouds; clouds of one kind rapidly succeeding those of another kind - inrolling and piled on each other. There are four different kinds of clouds; and though we cannot suppose that the distinction was accurately marked in the time of the psalmist, yet to the slightest observation there is a distinction in the clouds, and it is possible that by the use of two terms here, both denoting clouds - one thick and dense, and the other clouds as resembling dust - the psalmist meant to intimate that clouds of all kinds rolled over the firmament, and that these constituted the “pavilion” of God.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 18:11. He made darkness his secret place — God is represented as dwelling in the thick darkness, Deuteronomy 4:11; Psalms 97:2. This representation in the place before us is peculiarly proper; as thick heavy clouds deeply charged, and with lowering aspects, are always the forerunners and attendants of a tempest, and greatly heighten the horrors of the appearance: and the representation of them, spread about the Almighty as a tent, is truly grand and poetic.
Dark waters — The vapours strongly condensed into clouds; which, by the stroke of the lightning, are about to be precipitated in torrents of rain. See the next verse.
