¹⁰ He bowed the heavens also, and came down; Thick darkness was under his feet.

¹² Then spoke Solomon, Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

² Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

⁵ Part your heavens, Yahweh, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.

²¹ The people stayed at a distance, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.

⁴⁴ It was now about the sixth hour{Time was counted from sunrise, so the sixth hour was about noon.}, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.{3:00 PM}

⁴⁵ The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two.

⁴⁵ Now from the sixth hour{noon} there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.{3:00 P. M.}

³ Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

¹ Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence,

² as when fire kindles the brushwood, [and] the fire causes the waters to boil; to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence!

³ When you did terrible things which we didn't look for, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.

³ He lays the beams of his chambers in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.

¹¹ You came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.