Psalms 18:9
He parted the heavens and came down with dark clouds beneath His feet.
BSB
ASV
He bowed the heavens also, and came down; And thick darkness was under his feet.
KJV
He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
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2 Peter 3:10But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and its works will be laid…
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Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
And by that same word, the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
“Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who remains awake and clothed, so that he will not go naked and let his shame be exposed.”
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth below; for the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and its people will die like…
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Mark 15:33From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.
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From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.
It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over all the land until the ninth hour.
And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.
HOMILY ON PSALM 114(116a) (420)
Because we are little and lowly and unable to lift ourselves up to him, the Lord stoops down to us and in his compassionate kindness deigns to hear us. In fact, because we are people and cannot become gods, God became man and inclined himself, as it is written: "He inclined the heavens and came down."
Amid the terror of the storm Jehovah the Avenger descended, bending beneath his foot the arch of heaven. " "He bowed the heavens also, and came down." He came in haste, and spurned everything which impeded his rapidity. The thickest gloom concealed his splendour, "and darkness was under his feet;"he fought within the dense vapours, as a warrior in clouds of smoke and dust, and found out the hearts of his enemies with the sharp falchion of his vengeance. Darkness is no impediment to God; its densest gloom he makes his tent and secret pavilion.