45 Bible Verses about clouds

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Lamentations 3:44

you have wrapped yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through.

Psalm 108:4

For your steadfast love is great above the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

Psalm 57:10

For your steadfast love is great to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds.

2 Samuel 23:4

he dawns on them like the morning light, like the sun shining forth on a cloudless morning, like rain that makes grass to sprout from the earth

Deuteronomy 33:26

"There is none like God, O Jeshurun, who rides through the heavens to your help, through the skies in his majesty.

Luke 12:54

He also said to the crowds, "When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say at once, 'A shower is coming.' And so it happens.

Isaiah 45:8

"Shower, O heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain down righteousness; let the earth open, that salvation and righteousness may bear fruit; let the earth cause them both to sprout; I the LORD have created it.

Psalm 18:9

He bowed the heavens and came down; thick darkness was under his feet.

Ezekiel 30:3

For the day is near, the day of the LORD is near; it will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.

Psalm 68:4

Sing to God, sing praises to his name; lift up a song to him who rides through the deserts; his name is the LORD; exult before him!

Ecclesiastes 11:3

If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth, and if a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie.

Job 35:5

Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you.

Mark 14:62

And Jesus said, "I am, and you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven."

Job 37:21

"And now no one looks on the light when it is bright in the skies, when the wind has passed and cleared them.

Psalm 105:39

He spread a cloud for a covering, and fire to give light by night.

Isaiah 14:14

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.'

Ezekiel 1:28

Like the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud on the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard the voice of one speaking.

Numbers 9:17

And whenever the cloud lifted from over the tent, after that the people of Israel set out, and in the place where the cloud settled down, there the people of Israel camped.

Job 26:8

He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not split open under them.

Acts 2:19

And I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke;

Revelation 14:14

Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and seated on the cloud one like a son of man, with a golden crown on his head, and a sharp sickle in his hand.

Exodus 24:15

Then Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.

Psalm 104:3

He lays the beams of his chambers on the waters; he makes the clouds his chariot; he rides on the wings of the wind;

Job 36:32

He covers his hands with the lightning and commands it to strike the mark.

Psalm 135:7

He it is who makes the clouds rise at the end of the earth, who makes lightnings for the rain and brings forth the wind from his storehouses.

Exodus 40:34

Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

Zephaniah 1:15

A day of wrath is that day, a day of distress and anguish, a day of ruin and devastation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

Proverbs 16:15

In the light of a king's face there is life, and his favor is like the clouds that bring the spring rain.

Exodus 14:24

And in the morning watch the LORD in the pillar of fire and of cloud looked down on the Egyptian forces and threw the Egyptian forces into a panic,

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Armies » Compared to » Clouds

Ezekiel 38:9-16

You will advance, coming on like a storm. You will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your hordes, and many peoples with you. "Thus says the Lord GOD: On that day, thoughts will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil scheme and say, 'I will go up against the land of unwalled villages. I will fall upon the quiet people who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having no bars or gates,' read more.
to seize spoil and carry off plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and the people who were gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell at the center of the earth. Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all its leaders will say to you, 'Have you come to seize spoil? Have you assembled your hosts to carry off plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to seize great spoil?' "Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and say to Gog, Thus says the Lord GOD: On that day when my people Israel are dwelling securely, will you not know it? You will come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great host, a mighty army. You will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land. In the latter days I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when through you, O Gog, I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.

Clouds » Illustrative » Of judgments of God

Ezekiel 34:12

As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his sheep that have been scattered, so will I seek out my sheep, and I will rescue them from all places where they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness.

Lamentations 2:1

How the Lord in his anger has set the daughter of Zion under a cloud! He has cast down from heaven to earth the splendor of Israel; he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

Ezekiel 30:3

For the day is near, the day of the LORD is near; it will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.

Joel 2:2

a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been before, nor will be again after them through the years of all generations.

Clouds » Illustrative » Of hostile armies

Jeremiah 4:13

Behold, he comes up like clouds; his chariots like the whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles-- woe to us, for we are ruined!

Ezekiel 38:9

You will advance, coming on like a storm. You will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.

Ezekiel 38:16

You will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land. In the latter days I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when through you, O Gog, I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.

Clouds » Illustrative » Of unsearchableness of God

Ezekiel 1:4

As I looked, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, and a great cloud, with brightness around it, and fire flashing forth continually, and in the midst of the fire, as it were gleaming metal.

2 Samuel 22:12

He made darkness around him his canopy, thick clouds, a gathering of water.

Clouds » Power and wisdom of God exhibited in forming

Psalm 135:6

Whatever the LORD pleases, he does, in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all deeps.

Clouds » Uses of » To give rain

Judges 5:4

"LORD, when you went out from Seir, when you marched from the region of Edom, the earth trembled and the heavens dropped, yes, the clouds dropped water.

Psalm 104:13-14

From your lofty abode you water the mountains; the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your work. You cause the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth

Clouds » Called the » Clouds of heaven

Clouds » Called the » Windows of heaven

Genesis 7:11

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.

Isaiah 24:18

He who flees at the sound of the terror shall fall into the pit, and he who climbs out of the pit shall be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.

Clouds » Uses of » To supply dew

Proverbs 3:20

by his knowledge the deeps broke open, and the clouds drop down the dew.

Isaiah 18:4

For thus the LORD said to me: "I will quietly look from my dwelling like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest."

Clouds » Different kinds of, mentioned » Bright

Zechariah 10:1

Ask rain from the LORD in the season of the spring rain, from the LORDwho makes the storm clouds, and he will give them showers of rain, to everyone the vegetation in the field.

Job 37:11

He loads the thick cloud with moisture; the clouds scatter his lightning.

Clouds » Illustrative » Of multitudes of persons

Isaiah 60:8

Who are these that fly like a cloud, and like doves to their windows?

Clouds » Called the » Chambers of God

Psalm 104:3

He lays the beams of his chambers on the waters; he makes the clouds his chariot; he rides on the wings of the wind;

Psalm 104:13

From your lofty abode you water the mountains; the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your work.

Clouds » Illustrative » (riding upon,) of the power and greatness of God

Isaiah 19:1

An oracle concerning Egypt. Behold, the LORD is riding on a swift cloud and comes to Egypt; and the idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence, and the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them.

Psalm 104:3

He lays the beams of his chambers on the waters; he makes the clouds his chariot; he rides on the wings of the wind;

Clouds » Power and wisdom of God exhibited in condensing

Job 36:27

For he draws up the drops of water; they distill his mist in rain,

Job 37:10-11

By the breath of God ice is given, and the broad waters are frozen fast. He loads the thick cloud with moisture; the clouds scatter his lightning.

Clouds » Often obscure the sun, &c

Job 36:32

He covers his hands with the lightning and commands it to strike the mark.

Ezekiel 32:7

When I blot you out, I will cover the heavens and make their stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.

Clouds » Formed from the sea

1 Kings 18:44

And at the seventh time he said, "Behold, a little cloud like a man's hand is rising from the sea." And he said, "Go up, say to Ahab, 'Prepare your chariot and go down, lest the rain stop you.'"

Amos 9:6

who builds his upper chambers in the heavens and founds his vault upon the earth; who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the surface of the earth-- the LORD is his name.

Clouds » Illustrative » (passing away,) of the goodness and prosperity of hypocrites

Hosea 6:4

What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away.

Hosea 13:3

Therefore they shall be like the morning mist or like the dew that goes early away, like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor or like smoke from a window.

Clouds » Different kinds of, mentioned » Thick

Job 22:14

Thick clouds veil him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the vault of heaven.'

Job 37:11

He loads the thick cloud with moisture; the clouds scatter his lightning.

Clouds » Small » A large amount » Rain

1 Kings 18:44-45

And at the seventh time he said, "Behold, a little cloud like a man's hand is rising from the sea." And he said, "Go up, say to Ahab, 'Prepare your chariot and go down, lest the rain stop you.'" And in a little while the heavens grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode and went to Jezreel.

Clouds » Different kinds of, mentioned » White

Revelation 14:14

Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and seated on the cloud one like a son of man, with a golden crown on his head, and a sharp sickle in his hand.

Clouds » Illustrative » (a morning without,) of wise rulers

2 Samuel 23:3-4

The God of Israel has spoken; the Rock of Israel has said to me: When one rules justly over men, ruling in the fear of God, he dawns on them like the morning light, like the sun shining forth on a cloudless morning, like rain that makes grass to sprout from the earth

Clouds » Frequently the instrument of God's judgments

Genesis 7:11-12

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

Clouds » The rainbow appears in

Genesis 9:13-14

I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds,

Clouds » Illustrative » (when seasonable,) of the favor of good rulers

Proverbs 16:15

In the light of a king's face there is life, and his favor is like the clouds that bring the spring rain.

Clouds » Illustrative » (without rain,) of the fraudulent

Clouds » Thunder and lightning come from

Psalm 77:17-18

The clouds poured out water; the skies gave forth thunder; your arrows flashed on every side. The crash of your thunder was in the whirlwind; your lightnings lighted up the world; the earth trembled and shook.

Clouds » Different kinds of, mentioned » Small

1 Kings 18:44

And at the seventh time he said, "Behold, a little cloud like a man's hand is rising from the sea." And he said, "Go up, say to Ahab, 'Prepare your chariot and go down, lest the rain stop you.'"

Clouds » Different kinds of, mentioned » Black

1 Kings 18:45

And in a little while the heavens grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode and went to Jezreel.

Clouds » God » Established

Proverbs 8:28

when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep,

Clouds » Illustrative » (carried away by a tempest,) of false teachers

Clouds » Illustrative » Of sins of men

Clouds » God » Brings over the earth

Genesis 9:14

When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds,

Clouds » Different kinds of, mentioned » Great

Ezekiel 1:4

As I looked, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, and a great cloud, with brightness around it, and fire flashing forth continually, and in the midst of the fire, as it were gleaming metal.

Clouds » Different kinds of, mentioned » Swift

Isaiah 19:1

An oracle concerning Egypt. Behold, the LORD is riding on a swift cloud and comes to Egypt; and the idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence, and the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them.

Clouds » Called the » Waters above the firmament

Genesis 1:7

And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so.

Clouds » Uses of » To moderate heat

Isaiah 25:5

like heat in a dry place. You subdue the noise of the foreigners; as heat by the shade of a cloud, so the song of the ruthless is put down.

Clouds » Often cover the heavens

Clouds » Made for the glory of God

Psalm 148:4

Praise him, you highest heavens, and you waters above the heavens!

Clouds » Often dispersed by the wind

Hosea 13:3

Therefore they shall be like the morning mist or like the dew that goes early away, like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor or like smoke from a window.

Clouds » From the west, bring rain

Luke 12:54

He also said to the crowds, "When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say at once, 'A shower is coming.' And so it happens.

Clouds » Illustrative » (without water,) of false teachers

Jude 1:12

These are hidden reefsat your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, shepherds feeding themselves; waterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;

Clouds » Called the » Dust of God's feet

Clouds » Called the » Bottles of heaven

Job 38:37

Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can tilt the waterskins of the heavens,

Clouds » Man » Ignorant of the spreading of

Job 36:29

Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?

Clouds » Man » Ignorant of the disposing of

Job 37:15

Do you know how God lays his command upon them and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?

Clouds » Man » Ignorant of the balancing of

Clouds » Man » Cannot cause to rain

Job 38:34

"Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that a flood of waters may cover you?

Clouds » God » Balanced in the air

Clouds » God » Disposed in order

Job 37:15

Do you know how God lays his command upon them and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?

Clouds » Man » Cannot number

Job 38:37

Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can tilt the waterskins of the heavens,

Clouds » Man » Cannot stay

Job 38:37

Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can tilt the waterskins of the heavens,

Clouds » God » Scatters

Job 37:11

He loads the thick cloud with moisture; the clouds scatter his lightning.

Clouds » God » Spreads out

Job 26:9

He covers the face of the full moon and spreads over it his cloud.

Clouds » God » Binds up

Job 26:8

He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not split open under them.

Clouds » Are the garment of the sea

Job 38:9

when I made clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band,

Meteorology » Clouds

Psalm 77:17

The clouds poured out water; the skies gave forth thunder; your arrows flashed on every side.

Judges 5:4

"LORD, when you went out from Seir, when you marched from the region of Edom, the earth trembled and the heavens dropped, yes, the clouds dropped water.

Job 26:8

He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not split open under them.

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