Psalm 18:12
New International Version
Out of the brightness of his presence clouds advanced, with hailstones and bolts of lightning.

New Living Translation
Thick clouds shielded the brightness around him and rained down hail and burning coals.

English Standard Version
Out of the brightness before him hailstones and coals of fire broke through his clouds.

Berean Standard Bible
From the brightness of His presence His clouds advanced—hailstones and coals of fire.

King James Bible
At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.

New King James Version
From the brightness before Him, His thick clouds passed with hailstones and coals of fire.

New American Standard Bible
From the brightness before Him passed His thick clouds, Hailstones and coals of fire.

NASB 1995
From the brightness before Him passed His thick clouds, Hailstones and coals of fire.

NASB 1977
From the brightness before Him passed His thick clouds, Hailstones and coals of fire.

Legacy Standard Bible
From the brightness before Him passed His thick clouds, Hailstones and coals of fire.

Amplified Bible
Out of the brightness before Him passed His thick clouds, Hailstones and coals of fire.

Christian Standard Bible
From the radiance of his presence, his clouds swept onward with hail and blazing coals.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
From the radiance of His presence, His clouds swept onward with hail and blazing coals.

American Standard Version
At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, Hailstones and coals of fire.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
From the brightness of the tabernacle of his clouds he made hailstones and coals of fire.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
At the brightness before him the clouds passed, hail and coals of fire.

Contemporary English Version
Hailstones and fiery coals lit up the sky in front of you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
At the brightness that was before him the clouds passed, hail and coals of fire.

English Revised Version
At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Out of the brightness in front of him, those rain clouds passed by with hailstones and lightning.

Good News Translation
Hailstones and flashes of fire came from the lightning before him and broke through the dark clouds.

International Standard Version
The brightness before him scattered the thick clouds, with hail stones and flashes of fire.

JPS Tanakh 1917
At the brightness before Him, there passed through His thick clouds Hailstones and coals of fire.

Literal Standard Version
From the brightness before Him His thick clouds have passed on, | Hail and coals of fire.

Majority Standard Bible
From the brightness of His presence His clouds advanced—hailstones and coals of fire.

New American Bible
From the gleam before him, his clouds passed, hail and coals of fire.

NET Bible
From the brightness in front of him came hail and fiery coals.

New Revised Standard Version
Out of the brightness before him there broke through his clouds hailstones and coals of fire.

New Heart English Bible
From the brightness before him his thick clouds passed on, with hailstones and coals of fire.

Webster's Bible Translation
At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.

World English Bible
At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire.

Young's Literal Translation
From the brightness over-against Him His thick clouds have passed on, Hail and coals of fire.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The LORD is My Rock
11He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him. 12From the brightness of His presence His clouds advanced— hailstones and coals of fire. 13The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded—hailstones and coals of fire.…

Cross References
Joshua 10:11
As they fled before Israel along the descent from Beth-horon to Azekah, the LORD cast down on them large hailstones from the sky, and more of them were killed by the hailstones than by the swords of the Israelites.

Psalm 50:3
Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him.

Psalm 97:3
Fire goes before Him and consumes His foes on every side.

Psalm 104:2
He wraps Himself in light as with a garment; He stretches out the heavens like a tent,

Psalm 140:10
May burning coals fall on them; may they be thrown into the fire, into the miry pits, never to rise again.

Psalm 148:8
lightning and hail, snow and clouds, powerful wind fulfilling His word,

Ezekiel 13:13
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: In My wrath I will release a windstorm, and in My anger torrents of rain and hail will fall with destructive fury.


Treasury of Scripture

At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.

At the

Psalm 97:3,4
A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about…

Habakkuk 3:4,5
And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power…

Matthew 17:2,5
And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light…

hail

Exodus 9:23,24
And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt…

Joshua 10:11
And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.

2 Samuel 22:13-15
Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled…

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Psalm 18
1. David praises God for his manifold and marvelous blessings














(12) At the brightness.--This is obscure. Literally, From the brightness before him his clouds passed through (Heb., avar--LXX., ???????; Vulg., transierunt) hail and fiery coals. In Samuel it is "From the brightness before him flamed fiery coals," which is the description we should expect, and, doubtless, gives the sense we are to attach to our text. Through the dark curtain of clouds the lightnings dart like emanations from the Divine brightness which they hide. The difficulty arises from the position of avaiv, "his clouds," which looks like a subject rather than an object to avr-. It has been conjectured, from comparison with Samuel, that the word has been inserted through error, from its likeness to the verb. If retained it must be rendered as object, "Out of the brightness of his presence there passed through his clouds hail and fiery coals." And some obscurity of language is pardonable in a description of phenomena so overpowering and bewildering as "a tempest dropping fire." A modern poet touches this feeling:--

"Then fire was sky, and sky fire,

And both one brief ecstasy,

Then ashes."--R. BROWNING, Easter Day.

In the Authorised Version the thought is of a sudden clearing of the heavens, which is not true to nature, and the clause "hailstones and coals of fire" comes in as an exclamation, as in the next verse. But there it is probably an erroneous repetition, being wanting in Sam. and in the LXX. version of the psalm. Notice how the feeling of the terrible fury of the storm is heightened by the mention of "hail," so rare in Palestine.

Verse 12. - At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed. The "brightness" intended is probably that of lightning. The "thick clouds" are riven and parted asunder for the lightning to burst forth. Then come, almost simultaneously, hail stones and coals of fire; i.e., hail like that which fell in Egypt before the Exodus (Exodus 9:22-34), when "there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail" (ver. 24) - a fire which "ran along upon the ground," or some very unusual electrical phenomenon (see the comment on Exodus in the ' Homiletic Commentary,' p. 208).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
From the brightness
מִנֹּ֗גַהּ (min·nō·ḡah)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5051: Brilliancy

of His presence,
נֶ֫גְדּ֥וֹ (neḡ·dōw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5048: A front, part opposite, a counterpart, mate, over against, before

His clouds
עָבָ֥יו (‘ā·ḇāw)
Noun - common plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5645: An envelope, darkness, a, cloud, a copse

advanced—
עָבְר֑וּ (‘ā·ḇə·rū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 5674: To pass over, through, or by, pass on

hailstones
בָּ֝רָ֗ד (bā·rāḏ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1259: Hail

and coals
וְגַֽחֲלֵי־ (wə·ḡa·ḥă·lê-)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1513: An ember

of fire.
אֵֽשׁ׃ (’êš)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 784: A fire


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