Psalms 18:9 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 18:9

He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

He parted the heavens and came down with dark clouds beneath His feet.

YLT

And He inclineth the heavens, and cometh down, And thick darkness is under His feet.

DBT

And he bowed the heavens, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Psalms 144:5
Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Exodus 20:21
And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.
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.
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.

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), did not send an angel, but came himself, as one afflicted in the afflictions of his people. (5.) He wrapped himself in darkness, and yet commanded light to shine out of darkness for his people, Isa. xlv. He is a God that hideth himself; for he made darkness his pavilion,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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