He made darkness his secret place; his canopy round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
All Commentaries on Psalms 18:11 Go To Psalms 18
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Pavilion. Job xxii. 14., and xxvi. 9. The Jews had this idea of God's throne, of which we behold only the less brilliant side, as the Egyptians did that of the cloud, Exodus xiv. 19. The poets represent Jupiter surrounded with clouds and darkness. (Hesiod, op. 125 and 255.; Homer, Iliad O.)
Air. The parallel passage, (2 Kings) seems more accurate. Dropping waters out of the clouds of the heavens. Hebrew, "waters bound up in darksome clouds. "(Calmet)
God is incomprehensible in himself, and his counsels are inscrutable. (Worthington)
