Psalms Chapter 18 verse 9 Holy Bible
He bowed the heavens also, and came down; And thick darkness was under his feet.
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The heavens were bent, so that he might come down; and it was dark under his feet.
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And he bowed the heavens, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.
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He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
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There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
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He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.
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And He inclineth the heavens, and cometh down, And thick darkness `is' under His feet.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 9. - He bowed the heavens also, and came down (comp. Psalm 145:5). In a storm the clouds do actually descend, and the whole heaven seems to be bowed down to earth. God is said to "come down" to earth whenever he delivers the oppressed, and takes vengeance on their oppressors (see Exodus 3:8; 2 Samuel 22:10; Psalm 144:5; Isaiah 64. I, 3, etc.). And darkness was under his feet. A deep darkness commonly accompanies both earthquake and storm. When God actually descended on Mount Sinai, it was amid thunders and lightnings, and "a thick cloud" (Exodus 19:16), elsewhere called "thick darkness" (Deuteronomy 5:22).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(9) Darkness.--Better, black cloud. The dark masses of rain-cloud are now gathered, and bend to the earth under the majestic tread of God. (Comp. Nahum 1:3, "and the clouds are the dust of his feet." (Comp. Psalm 144:5.)
