² Dark clouds are round him; his kingdom is based on righteousness and right judging.

¹⁴ The seat of your kingdom is resting on righteousness and right judging: mercy and good faith come before your face.

⁹ And the Lord said to Moses, See, I will come to you in a thick cloud, so that what I say to you may come to the ears of the people and they may have belief in you for ever. And Moses gave the Lord word of what the people had said.

⁸ But of the Son he says, Your seat of power, O God, is for ever and ever; and the rod of your kingdom is a rod of righteousness.

⁹ You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil; and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head more than on the heads of those who are with you.

³³ O how deep is the wealth of the wisdom and knowledge of God! no one is able to make discovery of his decisions, and his ways may not be searched out.

¹² Evil-doing is disgusting to kings: for the seat of the ruler is based on righteousness.

⁴ The king's power is used for righteousness; you give true decisions, judging rightly in the land of Jacob.

³ The Lord is slow to get angry and great in power, and will not let the sinner go without punishment: the way of the Lord is in the wind and the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

¹⁹ Your way was in the sea, and your road in the great waters; there was no knowledge of your footsteps.

⁶ Your seat of power, O God, is for ever and ever; the rod of your kingdom is a rod of honour.

⁷ You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil: and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head, lifting you high over all other kings.

¹¹ He made the dark his secret place; his tent round him was the dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

¹² Before his shining light his dark clouds went past, raining ice and fire.

¹⁰ Now when the priests had come out of the holy place, the house of the Lord was full of the cloud,

¹¹ So that the priests were not able to keep their places to do their work because of the cloud, for the house of the Lord was full of the glory of the Lord.

¹² Then Solomon said, O Lord, to the sun you have given the heaven for a living-place, but your living-place was not seen by men;

¹¹ And you came near, waiting at the foot of the mountain; and flames of fire went up from the mountain to the heart of heaven, with dark clouds, and all was black as night.

¹² And the voice of the Lord came to you out of the fire: the sound of his words came to your ears but you saw no form; there was nothing but a voice.

¹⁶ And the glory of the Lord was resting on Mount Sinai, and the cloud was over it for six days; and on the seventh day he said Moses' name out of the cloud.

¹⁷ And the glory of the Lord was like a flame on the top of the mountain before the eyes of the children of Israel.

¹⁸ And Moses went up the mountain, into the cloud, and was there for forty days and forty nights.

²¹ And the people kept their places far off, but Moses went near to the dark cloud where God was.

²⁵ Let such a thing be far from you, to put the upright to death with the sinner: will not the judge of all the earth do right?