Księga Psalmów 18:11

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(18:12) Ciemność Mu była zasłoną, Okryciem - płaszcz burzowych wód I gęstych chmur.

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
I jeździł na cherubie, a latał będąc noszon na skrzydłach wiatru.

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
A wsiadłszy na Cheruba, latał; latał na skrzydłach wiatrowych.

Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Wsiadł na cheruba, wzniósł się, pędził na skrzydłach wichru.

Biblia Tysiąclecia
A wsiadłszy na Cheruba, latał; latał na skrzydłach wiatrowych.

Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Z ciemności zrobił sobie ukrycie, namiotem wokół niego były ciemne wody i gęste obłoki nieba.

Biblia Warszawska
Dosiadł cheruba i uleciał, I poszybował na skrzydłach wiatru.

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

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.