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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Psalms 18:12

Out of the brightness before him, his clouds rolled along, hail, and live coals of fire.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God;   Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena;   Readings, Select;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Clouds;   Fire;   Psalms, the Book of;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Beth-Horon;   Coal;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Clouds;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Apocalyptic Literature;   David;   English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Jonah;   Kingdom of God;   Psalms;   Salvation, Saviour;   Sin;   Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Fire;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - David;   Psalms the book of;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Coal;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Hailstones;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Cloud;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bush, the Burning;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Burning Bush;   Cosmogony;   Darkness;   Shirah, Pereḳ (Pirḳe);   Theophany;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
From the radiance of his presence,his clouds swept onward with hail and blazing coals.
Hebrew Names Version
At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, Hailstones and coals of fire.
King James Version
At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
English Standard Version
Out of the brightness before him hailstones and coals of fire broke through his clouds.
New Century Version
Out of the brightness of his presence came clouds with hail and lightning.
New English Translation
From the brightness in front of him came hail and fiery coals.
Amplified Bible
Out of the brightness before Him passed His thick clouds, Hailstones and coals of fire.
New American Standard Bible
From the brightness before Him passed His thick clouds, Hailstones and coals of fire.
World English Bible
At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, Hailstones and coals of fire.
Geneva Bible (1587)
At the brightnes of his presence his clouds passed, haylestones and coles of fire.
Legacy Standard Bible
From the brightness before Him passed His thick clouds,Hailstones and coals of fire.
Berean Standard Bible
From the brightness of His presence, His clouds advanced-hailstones and coals of fire.
Contemporary English Version
Hailstones and fiery coals lit up the sky in front of you.
Complete Jewish Bible
He made darkness his hiding-place, his canopy thick clouds dark with water.
Darby Translation
From the brightness before him his thick clouds passed forth: hail and coals of fire.
Easy-to-Read Version
Out of the brightness before him, hail broke through the clouds with flashes of lightning.
George Lamsa Translation
Out of the brightness of his shadow his clouds rained hailstones and coals of fire.
Good News Translation
Hailstones and flashes of fire came from the lightning before him and broke through the dark clouds.
Lexham English Bible
From the brightness before him his clouds passed over with hail and coals of fire.
Literal Translation
Out of the brightness before Him, His dark clouds passed through, hailstones and coals of fire.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
At the brightnes off his presence the cloudes remoued, with hale stones & coales of fyre.
American Standard Version
At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, Hailstones and coals of fire.
Bible in Basic English
Before his shining light his dark clouds went past, raining ice and fire.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He made darkness His hiding-place, His pavilion round about Him;
King James Version (1611)
At the brightnes that was before him his thicke clouds passed, haile stones and coales of fire.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
His cloudes, haylestones, and coles of fire: fell downe before hym after lyghtnyng.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
At the brightness before him the clouds passed, hail and coals of fire.
English Revised Version
At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he settide derknesses his hidyng place, his tabernacle `in his cumpas; derk water was in the cloudes of the lowere eir.
Update Bible Version
At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, Hailstones and coals of fire.
Webster's Bible Translation
At the brightness [that was] before him his thick clouds passed, hail [stones] and coals of fire.
New King James Version
From the brightness before Him, His thick clouds passed with hailstones and coals of fire.
New Living Translation
Thick clouds shielded the brightness around him and rained down hail and burning coals.
New Life Bible
Through the light before Him passed His dark clouds, hail stones and fire.
New Revised Standard
Out of the brightness before him there broke through his clouds hailstones and coals of fire.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(17-13) At the brightness that was before him the clouds passed, hail and coals of fire.
Revised Standard Version
Out of the brightness before him there broke through his clouds hailstones 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.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
From the brightness before Him passed His thick clouds, Hailstones and coals of fire.

Contextual Overview

1 I will love thee, O Yahweh my strength! 2 Yahweh, was my mountain crag and my stronghold, and my deliverer: My GOD, was my rock, I sought refuge in him, My shield, and my horn of salvation, my high tower. 3 As one worthy to be praised, called I on Yahweh, - And, from my foes, was I saved. 4 The meshes of death encompassed me, The torrents of perdition, made me afraid; 5 The meshes of hades, had surrounded me, The snares of death, had confronted me, 6 In my distress, called I on Yahweh, And, unto my God, made outcry for help, He heard, out of his temple, my voice, And my outcry for help came before him - entered into his ears! 7 Then did the earth shake and quake, Even, the foundations of the mountains, were deeply moved, Yea they did shake, because he was angry. 8 There went up smoke in his nostrils, and, a fire out of his mouth, devoured, Live coals, were kindled from it: 9 Then he stretched out the heaven, and came down, - and, thick gloom, was under his feet; 10 Then he rode on a cherub, and flew, and darted on the wings of the wind;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

At the: Psalms 97:3, Psalms 97:4, Habakkuk 3:4, Habakkuk 3:5, Matthew 17:2, Matthew 17:5

hail: Exodus 9:23, Exodus 9:24, Joshua 10:11, 2 Samuel 22:13-15, Revelation 16:21

Reciprocal: Exodus 19:9 - Lo Exodus 20:21 - thick Deuteronomy 32:24 - burning heat 2 Samuel 22:12 - made Job 41:21 - General Psalms 97:2 - Clouds Proverbs 12:26 - but Isaiah 50:3 - General Ezekiel 10:2 - coals Ezekiel 13:13 - and great Ezekiel 38:22 - an overflowing Habakkuk 3:11 - at the light of thine arrows they went Revelation 8:7 - hail Revelation 11:19 - and great

Cross-References

Genesis 17:17
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?
Genesis 18:6
So Abraham hastened towards the tent unto Sarah, - and said, Hasten thou three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make hearth-cakes.
Genesis 18:7
And unto the herd, ran Abraham, - and took a calf tender and good and gave unto the young man, and he hastened to make it ready.
Genesis 18:11
But Abraham and Sarah, were old, far gone in days, - it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
Genesis 18:12
So then Sarah laughed within herself, saying: After I am past age, hath there come to me pleasure, my lord, also being old?
Genesis 18:13
And Yahweh said unto Abraham, - Wherefore now did Sarah laugh saying. Can it really and truly be that I should bear, seeing that have become old?
Genesis 18:18
when, Abraham, shall surely become, a great and mighty nation, - and all the nations of the earth, shall be blessed in him?
Genesis 18:20
So Yahweh said, The outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah, because it hath become great, - And their sin, because it hath become exceeding grievous,
Psalms 126:2
Then, was our mouth, filled with laughter, and our tongue with a shout of triumph, - Then, said they among the nations, Yahweh, hath done great things, with these!
Ephesians 5:33
Nevertheless, ye also, do ye, individually, each man be so loving, his own wife, as himself, and, the wife, see that she reverence her husband.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

At the brightness [that was] before him, The lightning that came out of the thick clouds; which may denote, either the coming of Christ to take vengeance on the Jewish nation, which was swift and sudden, clear and manifest; or the spreading of the Gospel in the Gentile world, in which Christ, the brightness of his Father's glory, appeared to the illumination of many; see Matthew 24:27; and both may be intended, as the effects following show;

his thick clouds passed; that is, passed away; the gross darkness, which had for so many years covered the Gentile world, was removed when God sent forth his light and truth; and multitudes, who were darkness itself, were made light in the Lord;

hail [stones] and coals of fire; the same Gospel that was enlightening to the Gentiles, and the savour of life unto life unto them, was grievous, like hail stones, and tormenting, scorching, irritating, and provoking, like coals of fire, and the savour of death unto death, to the Jews; when God provoked them, by sending the Gospel among the Gentiles, and calling them: or these may design the heavy, awful, and consuming judgments of God upon them, which are sometimes signified by hail storms; see Revelation 8:7. In 2 Samuel 22:13, it is only, "through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled".

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

At the brightness that was before him - From the flash - the play of the lightnings that seemed to go before him.

His thick clouds passed - or, vanished. They seemed to pass away. The light, the flash, the blaze, penetrated those clouds, and seemed to dispel, or to scatter them. The whole heavens were in a blaze, as if there were no clouds, or as if the clouds were all driven away. The reference here is to the appearance when the vivid flashes of lightning seem to penetrate and dispel the clouds, and the heavens seem to be lighted up with a universal flame.

Hail-stones - That is, hailstones followed, or fell.

And coals of fire - There seemed to be coals of fire rolling along the ground, or falling from the sky. In the corresponding place in 2 Samuel 22:13 the expression is, “Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.” That is, fires were kindled by the lightning. The expression in the psalm is more terse and compact, but the reason of the change cannot be assigned.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 18:12. At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed — The word נגה nogah signifies the lightning. This goes before him: the flash is seen before the thunder is heard, and before the rain descends; and then the thick cloud passes. Its contents are precipitated on the earth, and the cloud is entirely dissipated.

Hail-stones and coals of fire. — This was the storm that followed the flash and the peal; for it is immediately added-


 
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