Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
And He inclineth the heavens, and cometh down, And thick darkness is under 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.
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.
References
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 18:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Praise For Deliverance
8 Gone up hath smoke by His nostrils, And fire from His mouth consumeth, Coals have been kindled by it. 9 And He inclineth the heavens, and cometh down, And thick darkness is under His feet. 10 And He rideth on a cherub, and doth fly, And He flieth on wings of wind.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 5:22-23
These words hath Jehovah spoken unto all your assembly, in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness -- a great voice; and He hath not added, and He writeth them on two tables of stone, and giveth them unto me.
Deuteronomy 33:26
There is none like the God of Jeshurun, Riding the heavens in thy help, And in His excellency the skies.
2 Samuel 22:10
And He inclineth heaven, and cometh down, And thick darkness is under His feet.
Psalm 68:4
Sing ye to God -- praise His name, Raise up a highway for Him who is riding in deserts, In Jah is His name, and exult before Him.
Psalm 144:5-15
Jehovah, incline Thy heavens and come down, Strike against mountains, and they smoke.
Isaiah 51:6
Lift ye up to the heavens your eyes, And look attentively unto the earth beneath, For the heavens as smoke have vanished, And the earth as a garment weareth out, And its inhabitants as gnats do die, And My salvation is to the age, And My righteousness is not broken.
Joel 3:16
And Jehovah from Zion doth roar, And from Jerusalem giveth forth His voice, And shaken have the heavens and earth, And Jehovah is a refuge to his people, And a stronghold to sons of Israel.
Matthew 24:29
'And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken;
Mark 15:33
And the sixth hour having come, darkness came over the whole land till the ninth hour,
John 13:7
Jesus answered and said to him, 'That which I do thou hast not known now, but thou shalt know after these things;'
Hebrews 12:26
whose voice the earth shook then, and now hath he promised, saying, 'Yet once -- I shake not only the earth, but also the heaven;'
2 Peter 3:10
and it will come -- the day of the Lord -- as a thief in the night, in which the heavens with a rushing noise will pass away, and the elements with burning heat be dissolved, and earth and the works in it shall be burnt up.
Revelation 20:11
And I saw a great white throne, and Him who is sitting upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven did flee away, and place was not found for them;