He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
The 1611 reading
He made darkenes his secret place: his pauilion round about him, were darke waters, and thicke cloudes of the skies.
KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: Visible masses of condensed vapour in the sky. Sense 2: Figures of covering, multitude, or obscurity.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Deuteronomy 4:11
Complete exact-word concordance
He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
He made darkenes his secret place: his pauilion round about him, were darke waters, and thicke cloudes of the skies.
At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
At the brightnes that was before him his thicke clouds passed, haile stones and coales of fire.
Thy mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.
Thy mercie (O LORD) is in the heauens; and thy faithfulnesse reacheth vnto the cloudes.
1611 marginal notePsal.57.11 and 108.4.
For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.
For thy mercy is great vnto the heauens, and thy trueth vnto the clouds.
1611 marginal notePsal. 36.6. & 108.5.
Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.
Ascribe yee strength vnto God: his excellencie is ouer Israel, and his strength is in the cloudes.
1611 marginal noteOr, heauens.
The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.
The cloudes powred out water, the skies sent out a sound; thine arrowes also went abroad.
1611 marginal noteHeb. the clouds were powred forth with water.
Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
Though he had commanded the cloudes from aboue: and opened the doores of heauen:
clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
Clouds and darkenesse are round about him: righteousnesse and iudgement are the habitation of his throne.
1611 marginal noteOr, establishment.
1611 marginal notePsal.89.15.
Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:
Who layeth the beames of his chambers in the waters, who maketh the cloudes his charet: who walketh vpon the wings of the wind.
For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds.
For thy mercy is great aboue the heauens: and thy trueth reacheth vnto the clouds.
1611 marginal noteOr, skies.
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