Parallel Verses

World English Bible

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

New American Standard Bible

“He bowed the heavens also, and came down
With thick darkness under His feet.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

He parted the heavens and came down,
a dark cloud beneath His feet.

International Standard Version

He deformed heaven itself as he descended. Thick darkness enveloped his feet.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


“He bowed the heavens also, and came down
With thick darkness under His feet.

Bible in Basic English

The heavens were bent, so that he might come down; and it was dark under his feet.

Darby Translation

And he bowed the heavens, and came down; And darkness was under his feet.

Julia Smith Translation

He will incline the heavens and come down; And darkness under his feet

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

He bowed the heavens and came down; a very thick cloud [was] under his feet.

Modern King James verseion

He bowed the heavens also, and came down. And darkness was under His feet.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And he bowed heaven and came down, and darkness underneath his feet.

NET Bible

He made the sky sink as he descended; a thick cloud was under his feet.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

Then he stretched out the heavens, and came down, - and, thick gloom, was under his feet;

Webster

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

Youngs Literal Translation

And He inclineth heaven, and cometh down, And thick darkness is under His feet.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
the heavens
שׁמה שׁמים 
Shamayim 
Usage: 420

also, and came down
ירד 
Yarad 
Usage: 378

and darkness
ערפל 
`araphel 
Usage: 16

References

Context Readings

The Victory Song Of David

9 Smoke went up out of his nostrils. Fire out of his mouth devoured. Coals were kindled by it. 10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet. 11 He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he was seen on the wings of the wind.

Cross References

1 Kings 8:12

Then Solomon said, "Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

Psalm 97:2

Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

Exodus 20:21

The people stayed at a distance, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.

Psalm 144:5

Part your heavens, Yahweh, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.

Deuteronomy 4:11

You came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.

Psalm 104:3

He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.

Isaiah 64:1-3

Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence,

Nahum 1:3

Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

Matthew 27:45

Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.

Luke 23:44-45

It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.

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