Psalm 18:9 Parallel Translations
NASB: He bowed the heavens also, and came down With thick darkness under His feet. (NASB ©1995)
GWT: He spread apart the heavens and came down with a dark cloud under his feet.(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
ASV: He bowed the heavens also, and came down; And thick darkness was under his feet.
BBE: The heavens were bent, so that he might come down; and it was dark under his feet.
DBY: And he bowed the heavens, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.
ERV: He bowed the heavens also, and came down, and thick darkness was under his feet.
JPS: He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and thick darkness was under His feet.
WBS: He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
WEB: He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.
YLT: And He inclineth the heavens, and cometh down, And thick darkness is under His feet.
Psalm 18:9 Cross References
XREF:Psalm 97:2 Clouds and thick darkness surround Him; Righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne.

Psalm 144:5 Bow Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; Touch the mountains, that they may smoke. (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
GSB: 18:9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and {f} darkness [was] under his feet.
(f) Darkness signifies the wrath of God as the clear light signifies God's favour.
WES: 18:9 Bowed - By producing thick and dark clouds, whereby the heavens seem to come down to the earth. Came - Not by change of place, but by the manifestation of his presence and power on my behalf.
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.
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