Psalm 18:8-14

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁸ Smoke went up from his nostrils,
    and devouring fire from his mouth;
    glowing coals flamed forth from him.
⁹ He bowed the heavens, and came down;
    thick darkness was under his feet.
¹⁰ He rode on a cherub, and flew;
    he came swiftly upon the wings of the wind.
¹¹ He made darkness his covering around him,
    his canopy thick clouds dark with water.
¹² Out of the brightness before him
    there broke through his clouds
    hailstones and coals of fire.
¹³ The Lord also thundered in the heavens,
    and the Most High uttered his voice.^[a]
14 And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them;
    he flashed forth lightnings, and routed them.