4 Bible Verses about Clouds, Figurative Use

Therefore let us indeed, having around us so great a cloud of witnesses, having laid aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us, run with patience the race which is set before us,

These are fountains without water, and mists driven away by the storm, for which the blackness of darkness has been reserved.

For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

These are rocks in your love-feasts, feasting along with you without fear shepherdizing themselves, clouds without water, driven away by the winds; withered trees, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;