Psalm 18:9
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Verse 8-19. See Psalms on "Psalms 18:9" for further information.
Verse 9. He bowed the heavens also, and came down. As in a tempest the clouds come nearer to the earth, and from the mountains to the valleys, so the psalmist adopts this figure peculiar to such occasions as described God's near approach to judgment ( Psalms 144:5 , etc.; Hebrews 3:6 ); and darkness was under his feet. We have here the increase of the horrors of the tempest, and its still nearer approach, but God is not yet revealed, it is darkness under his feet. Thick darkness was the accompaniment of God's descent on Mount Sinai
( Exodus 20:21 Deuteronomy 4:11 ): and it invests his throne, to veil from us the overwhelming majesty of deity. Psalms 97:2 . But this darkness, while it hides his coming judgment, bespeaks sorrow and anguish to the objects of his wrath. Luke 21:25-26 . W. Wilson, in loc.
Verse 9-11
Verse 9-12
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