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Revised Standard Version

Psalms 18:12

Out of the brightness before him there broke through his clouds hailstones and 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.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Out of the brightness before him, his clouds rolled along, hail, and live coals of fire.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(17-13) At the brightness that was before him the clouds passed, 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.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
From the brightness before Him passed His thick clouds, Hailstones and coals of fire.

Contextual Overview

1 To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD, who addressed the words of this song to the LORD on the day when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love thee, O LORD, my strength. 2 The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. 3 I call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies. 4 The cords of death encompassed me, the torrents of perdition assailed me; 5 the cords of Sheol entangled me, the snares of death confronted me. 6 In my distress I called upon the LORD; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears. 7 Then the earth reeled and rocked; the foundations also of the mountains trembled and quaked, because he was angry. 8 Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from his mouth; glowing coals flamed forth from him. 9 He bowed the heavens, and came down; thick darkness was under his feet. 10 He rode on a cherub, and flew; he came swiftly upon 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
Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said to himself, "Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?"
Genesis 18:6
And Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes."
Genesis 18:7
And Abraham ran to the herd, and took a calf, tender and good, and gave it to the servant, who hastened to prepare it.
Genesis 18:11
Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in age; it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
Genesis 18:12
So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, "After I have grown old, and my husband is old, shall I have pleasure?"
Genesis 18:13
The LORD said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, and say, 'Shall I indeed bear a child, now that I am old?'
Genesis 18:18
seeing that Abraham shall become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves by him?
Genesis 18:20
Then the LORD said, "Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomor'rah is great and their sin is very grave,
Psalms 126:2
Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, "The LORD has done great things for them."
Ephesians 5:33
however, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects 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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