Parallel Verses
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.}
New American Standard Bible
With thick
King James Version
He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
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.
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 a smoke out in his presence, and a consuming fire out of his mouth, so that coals were kindled at it. {TYNDALE: Smoke went up out of his nostrils, and consuming fire out of his mouth, that coals were kindled of him.} 9 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.} 10 He rode upon the Cherub, and did fly: he came flying upon the wings of the wind. {TYNDALE: And he rode upon Cherub and flew: and appeared upon the wings of the wind.}
Cross References
Deuteronomy 5:22-23
These words the LORD spake unto all your multitude in the mount out of the fire, cloud and darkness, with a loud voice, and added no more thereto, and wrote them in two tables of stone and delivered them unto me.
Deuteronomy 33:26
There is none like unto the God of Israel: he that sitteth upon heaven shall be thine help, whose glory is in the clouds:
2 Samuel 22:10
And he bowed heaven and came down, and darkness underneath his feet.
Psalm 68:4
O sing unto God, sing praises to his name; magnify him that rideth upon the heavens, as it were upon a horse. Praise him in his name Jah, and rejoice before him.
Psalm 144:5-15
Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke withal.
Isaiah 51:6
Lift up your eyes to heaven and behold the earth beneath. For heaven shall vanish away as smoke, and the earth shall wear away as a vesture, and the inhabiters thereof shall perish away after the same manner: but my salvation shall endure ever, and my righteousness shall not perish.
Joel 3:16
The LORD shall roar out of Zion, a cry out of Jerusalem; that the heavens and the earth shall quake withal. But the LORD shall be a defense to his own people, and a refuge for the children of Israel.
Matthew 24:29
Immediately after the tribulations 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 heaven shall move.
Mark 15:33
And when the sixth hour was come, darkness arose over all the earth, 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, and now declareth, saying "Yet once more will I shake, not the earth only, but also heaven."
2 Peter 3:10
Nevertheless, the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in the which day, the heavens shall perish with terrible noise, and the elements shall melt with heat, and the earth, with the works that are therein, shall burn.
Revelation 20:11
And I saw a great white seat and him that sat on it, from whose face fled away both the earth and heaven, and their place was no more found.