Parallel Verses
King James Version
He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
New American Standard Bible
With thick
Holman Bible
a dark cloud beneath His feet.
International Standard Version
He bent the sky and descended, and darkness was under his feet.
A Conservative Version
He also bowed the heavens, 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;
And thick darkness was 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
And he will incline the heavens and come down: and gloom under his feet
King James 2000
He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
Lexham Expanded Bible
So he bowed [the] heavens and came down with a thick cloud under his feet.
Modern King James verseion
And He bowed the heavens and came down, and darkness was under His feet.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
He bowed the heavens, also, and came down, and it was dark under his feet. {TYNDALE: 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 heaven, 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.
World English Bible
He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.
Youngs Literal Translation
And He inclineth the heavens, and cometh down, And thick darkness is under His feet.
References
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 18:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Praise For Deliverance
8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. 9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet. 10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 5:22-23
These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.
Deuteronomy 33:26
There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.
2 Samuel 22:10
He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.
Psalm 68:4
Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.
Psalm 144:5-15
Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Isaiah 51:6
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
Joel 3:16
The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
Matthew 24:29
Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
Mark 15:33
And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
John 13:7
Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.
Hebrews 12:26
Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
2 Peter 3:10
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
Revelation 20:11
And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.