(A)Clouds and thick darkness are all around him;
    (B)righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

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14 (A)Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne;
    (B)steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.

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And the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I am coming to you (A)in a thick cloud, that (B)the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also (C)believe you forever.”

When Moses told the words of the people to the Lord,

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12 It is an abomination to kings to do evil,
    for (A)the throne is established by righteousness.

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But of the Son he says,

(A)“Your throne, O God, is forever and ever,
    the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom.
You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;
therefore God, your God, (B)has anointed you
    with (C)the oil of gladness beyond your companions.”

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33 Oh, the depth of the riches and (A)wisdom and knowledge of God! (B)How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!

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(A)The King in his might (B)loves justice.[a]
    You have established equity;
you have executed justice
    and righteousness in Jacob.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 99:4 Or The might of the King loves justice

25 Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, (A)so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! (B)Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?”

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(A)The Lord is slow to anger and (B)great in power,
    and (C)the Lord will by no means clear the guilty.
(D)His way is in whirlwind and storm,
    and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

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19 Your (A)way was through the sea,
    your path through the great waters;
    yet your footprints (B)were unseen.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 77:19 Hebrew unknown

(A)Your throne, O God, is forever and ever.
    The (B)scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of uprightness;
    (C)you have loved righteousness and hated wickedness.
Therefore (D)God, your God, has (E)anointed you
    with the oil of (F)gladness (G)beyond your companions;

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11 He made darkness his covering, his (A)canopy around him,
    thick clouds (B)dark with water.
12 Out of the brightness before him
    (C)hailstones and coals of fire broke through his clouds.

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10 And when the priests came out of the Holy Place, (A)a cloud filled the house of the Lord, 11 so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord.

Solomon Blesses the Lord

12 (B)Then Solomon said, “The Lord[a] has said that he would dwell (C)in thick darkness.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 8:12 Septuagint The Lord has set the sun in the heavens, but

11 And (A)you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, while (B)the mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven, wrapped in darkness, cloud, and gloom. 12 Then (C)the Lord spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of words, (D)but saw no form; (E)there was only a voice.

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16 (A)The glory of the Lord dwelt on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. And on the seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud. 17 Now the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a (B)devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the sight of the people of Israel. 18 Moses entered the cloud and went up on the mountain. And Moses (C)was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

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21 The people stood far off, while Moses drew near to the (A)thick darkness where God was.

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