Psalm 18:11 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

He made the darkness his hiding place, the dark rain clouds his covering.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

ASV:

He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion round about him, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

BBE:

He made the dark his secret place; his tent round him was the dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

DBY:

He made darkness his secret place, his tent round about him: darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

ERV:

He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion round about him; darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

JPS:

He made darkness His hiding-place, His pavilion round about Him; darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

WBS:

He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion around him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

WEB:

He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

YLT:

He maketh darkness His secret place, Round about Him His tabernacle, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

Psalm 18:11 Cross References

XREF:

Deuteronomy 4:11 "You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire to the very heart of the heavens: darkness, cloud and thick gloom.

Psalm 97:2 Clouds and thick darkness surround Him; Righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

18:11 He made darkness his {h} secret place; his pavilion round about him [were] dark waters [and] thick clouds of the skies.
(h) As a king angry with the people, will not show himself to them.

WES:

18:11 Darkness - He covered himself with dark clouds. Waters - Watery vapours.

MHC:

18:1-19 The first words, I will love thee, O Lord, my strength, are the scope and contents of the psalm. Those that truly love God, may triumph in him as their Rock and Refuge, and may with confidence call upon him. It is good for us to observe all the circumstances of a mercy which magnify the power of God and his goodness to us in it. David was a praying man, and God was found a prayer-hearing God. If we pray as he did, we shall speed as he did. God's manifestation of his presence is very fully described, ver. 7-15. Little appeared of man, but much of God, in these deliverances. It is not possible to apply to the history of the son of Jesse those awful, majestic, and stupendous words which are used through this description of the Divine manifestation. Every part of so solemn a scene of terrors tells us, a greater than David is here. God will not only deliver his people out of their troubles in due time, but he will bear them up under their troubles in the mean time. Can we meditate on ver. 18, without directing one thought to Gethsemane and Calvary? Can we forget that it was in the hour of Christ's deepest calamity, when Judas betrayed, when his friends forsook, when the multitude derided him, and the smiles of his Father's love were withheld, that the powers of darkness prevented him? The sorrows of death surrounded him, in his distress he prayed, Heb 5:7. God made the earth to shake and tremble, and the rocks to cleave, and brought him out, in his resurrection, because he delighted in him and in his undertaking.

CONC:

Canopy Clouds Covering Dark Darkness Hiding Hiding-place Maketh Pavilion Rain Round Secret Skies Sky Tabernacle Tent Thick Waters

Canopy Clouds Covering Dark Darkness Hiding Hiding-Place Maketh Pavilion Rain Round Secret Skies Sky Tabernacle Tent Thick Water Waters

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