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And the people stood at a distance as Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.

You came near and stood at the base of the mountain, a mountain blazing with fire to the heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness.

The LORD spoke these commandments in a loud voice to your whole assembly out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.

He parted the heavens and came down with dark clouds beneath His feet.

Then Solomon declared: “The LORD has said that He would dwell in the thick cloud.

Then Solomon declared: “The LORD has said that He would dwell in the thick cloud.

Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?

…when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,

He parted the heavens and came down with dark clouds beneath His feet.

Clouds and darkness surround Him; righteousness and justice are His throne’s foundation.

For behold, darkness covers the earth, and thick darkness is over the peoples; but the LORD will rise upon you, and His glory will appear over you.

Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.

As a shepherd looks for his scattered sheep when he is among the flock, so I will look for My flock. I will rescue them from all the places to which they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness.

…a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.

That day will be a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of destruction and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,