2 Samuel 22:10

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He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.

O Lord, make the sky sink and come down! Touch the mountains and make them smolder!

If only you would tear apart the sky and come down! The mountains would tremble before you!

The people kept their distance, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.

You approached and stood at the foot of the mountain, a mountain ablaze to the sky above it and yet dark with a thick cloud.

Then Solomon said, "The Lord has said that he lives in thick darkness.

Dark clouds surround him; equity and justice are the foundation of his throne.

and lays the beams of the upper rooms of his palace on the rain clouds. He makes the clouds his chariot, and travels along on the wings of the wind.

Now from noon until three, darkness came over all the land.

It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon,