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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized 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.
And he stiede on cherubym, and flei; he fley ouer the pennes of wyndis.
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.
(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
And Abraham fell on his face and laughed, - and said in his heart To one a hundred years old, shall a child be born? And shall even Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?
Now Abraham, was ninety-nine years old, - when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
But Abraham and Sarah, were old, far gone in days, - it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
So then Sarah laughed within herself, saying: After I am past age, hath there come to me pleasure, my lord, also being old?
when, Abraham, shall surely become, a great and mighty nation, - and all the nations of the earth, shall be blessed in him?
Let me go down, pray, and let me behold, whether according to their outcry which hath come in unto me, they have done altogether, And if not. I must know!
And she said unto her father, Let it not be vexing in the eyes of my lord that I cannot rise up at thy presence, for, the way of women, is upon me. So he made search, but found not the household gods,
And, when a, woman, hath a flow, and her flow in her flesh is, blood, seven days, shall she continue in her removal, and whosoever toucheth her, shall be unclean until the evening;
and they had no child, inasmuch as Elizabeth was barren, and, both, had become, advanced in their days.
And Zachariah said unto the messenger - Whereby, shall I know this? for, I, am, aged, and, my wife, advanced in her days.
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.
