2 Samuel 22:12
 2 Samuel 22:12 
New International Version (©2011)
He made darkness his canopy around him-- the dark rain clouds of the sky.

New Living Translation (©2007)
He shrouded himself in darkness, veiling his approach with dense rain clouds.

English Standard Version (©2001)
He made darkness around him his canopy, thick clouds, a gathering of water.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"And He made darkness canopies around Him, A mass of waters, thick clouds of the sky.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He made darkness a canopy around Him, a gathering of water and thick clouds.

International Standard Version (©2012)
The darkness around him was his canopies— amassed water was his overhanging clouds!

NET Bible (©2006)
He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He surrounded himself with darkness. He made the dark rain clouds his covering.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

American King James Version
And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

American Standard Version
And he made darkness pavilions round about him, Gathering of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He made darkness a covering round about him: dropping waters out of the clouds of the heavens.

Darby Bible Translation
And he made darkness round about him a tent, Gatherings of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

English Revised Version
And he made darkness pavilions round about him, gathering of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he made darkness pavilions around him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

World English Bible
He made darkness pavilions around himself: gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

Young's Literal Translation
And He setteth darkness Round about Him -- tabernacles, Darkness of waters -- thick clouds of the skies.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

22:1-51 David's psalm of thanksgiving. - This chapter is a psalm of praise; we find it afterwards nearly as Ps 18. They that trust God in the way of duty, shall find him a present help in their greatest dangers: David did so. Remarkable preservations should be particularly mentioned in our praises. We shall never be delivered from all enemies till we get to heaven. God will preserve all his people, 2Ti 4:18. Those who receive signal mercies from God, ought to give him the glory. In the day that God delivered David, he sang this song. While the mercy is fresh, and we are most affected with it, let the thank-offering be brought, to be kindled with the fire of that affection. All his joys and hopes close, as all our hopes should do, in the great Redeemer.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters,

and thick clouds of the skies. See Gill on Psalm 18:11.


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David's Song of Deliverance
11And he rode on a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen on the wings of the wind. 12And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies. 13Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled. …

1 Kings 20:12 Ben-Hadad heard this message while he and the kings were drinking in their tents, and he ordered his men: "Prepare to attack." So they prepared to attack the city.
Job 36:29 Who can understand how he spreads out the clouds, how he thunders from his pavilion?