Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
And he will set darkness round about him for booths, The gatherings of waters the darkness of clouds.
New American Standard Bible
A mass of waters, thick clouds of the sky.
King James Version
And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
Holman Bible
a gathering
International Standard Version
The darkness around him was his canopies amassed water was his overhanging clouds!
A Conservative Version
And he made darkness pavilions round about him, gathering of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
American Standard Version
And he made darkness pavilions round about him, Gathering of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
Amplified
“He made darkness
A mass of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
Bible in Basic English
And he made the dark his tent round him, a mass of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
Darby Translation
And he made darkness round about him a tent, Gatherings of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
King James 2000
And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
Lexham Expanded Bible
He put darkness [as] a canopy all around him, a collection of {thick rain clouds}.
Modern King James verseion
And He made darkness coverings around Him, dark waters, thick clouds of the skies.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And he made darkness a tabernacle round about him, with water gathered together in thick clouds.
NET Bible
He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds.
New Heart English Bible
He made darkness pavilions around himself: gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
The Emphasized Bible
And made of the darkness around him, pavilions, - gathering of waters, clouds of vapours.
Webster
And he made darkness pavilions around him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
World English Bible
He made darkness pavilions around himself: gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
Youngs Literal Translation
And He setteth darkness Round about Him -- tabernacles, Darkness of waters -- thick clouds of the skies.
Themes
Clouds » Illustrative » Of unsearchableness of God
Darkness » Illustrative of » Greatness and unsearchableness of God
Interlinear
Cabiyb
Mayim
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in 2 Samuel 22:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Victory Song Of David
11 And he will ride upon a cherub and fly: And he will be seen upon the wings of the wind. 12 And he will set darkness round about him for booths, The gatherings of waters the darkness of clouds. 13 From the shining before him were coals of fire kindled:
Phrases
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:10
He will incline the heavens and come down; And darkness under his feet
Psalm 97:2
A cloud and darkness round about him: justice and judgment the preparing of his throne.
Job 36:29
Also if he shall understand the spreadings of the cloud, the noise of his booth.
Psalm 18:11-12
He will set darkness his covering; his tent round about him darknesses of waters, thick clouds.
Psalm 27:5
For he will hide me in the booth in the day of evil: he will cover me with the covering of his tent; he will lift me up upon a rock.