Psalm 18:12 Out of the brightness of his presence clouds advanced, with hailstones and bolts of lightning.

◄ Psalm 18:12 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
Out of the brightness of his presence clouds advanced, with hailstones and bolts of lightning.

English Standard Version
Out of the brightness before him hailstones and coals of fire broke through his clouds.

New American Standard Bible
From the brightness before Him passed His thick clouds, Hailstones and coals of fire.

King James Bible
At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
From the radiance of His presence, His clouds swept onward with hail and blazing coals.

International Standard Version
The brightness before him scattered the thick clouds, with hail stones and flashes of fire.

American Standard Version
At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, Hailstones and coals of fire.

Douay-Rheims Bible
At the brightness that was before him the clouds passed, hail and coals of fire.

Darby Bible Translation
From the brightness before him his thick clouds passed forth: hail and coals of fire.

Young's Literal Translation
From the brightness over-against Him His thick clouds have passed on, Hail and coals of fire.

Cross References

Joshua 10:11
And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven on them to Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.

Psalm 50:3
Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

Psalm 97:3
A fire goes before him, and burns up his enemies round about.

Psalm 104:2
Who cover yourself with light as with a garment: who stretch out the heavens like a curtain:

Psalm 140:10
Let burning coals fall on them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.

Psalm 148:8
Fire, and hail; snow, and vapors; stormy wind fulfilling his word:

Ezekiel 13:13
Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.

Ezekiel 38:22
And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain on him, and on his bands, and on the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.

Habakkuk 3:4
And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.

Habakkuk 3:5
Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

18:1-19 The first words, I will love thee, O Lord, my strength, are the scope and contents of the psalm. Those that truly love God, may triumph in him as their Rock and Refuge, and may with confidence call upon him. It is good for us to observe all the circumstances of a mercy which magnify the power of God and his goodness to us in it. David was a praying man, and God was found a prayer-hearing God. If we pray as he did, we shall speed as he did. God's manifestation of his presence is very fully described, ver. 7-15. Little appeared of man, but much of God, in these deliverances. It is not possible to apply to the history of the son of Jesse those awful, majestic, and stupendous words which are used through this description of the Divine manifestation. Every part of so solemn a scene of terrors tells us, a greater than David is here. God will not only deliver his people out of their troubles in due time, but he will bear them up under their troubles in the mean time. Can we meditate on ver. 18, without directing one thought to Gethsemane and Calvary? Can we forget that it was in the hour of Christ's deepest calamity, when Judas betrayed, when his friends forsook, when the multitude derided him, and the smiles of his Father's love were withheld, that the powers of darkness prevented him? The sorrows of death surrounded him, in his distress he prayed, Heb 5:7. God made the earth to shake and tremble, and the rocks to cleave, and brought him out, in his resurrection, because he delighted in him and in his undertaking.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

12. Out of this obscurity, which impresses the beholder with awe and dread, He reveals Himself by sudden light and the means of His terrible wrath (Jos 10:11; Ps 78:47).