12 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
12 Out of the brightness of his presence clouds advanced, with hailstones and bolts of lightning.
12 Out of the brightness before him hailstones and coals of fire broke through his clouds.
12 But his cloud-brightness bursts through, spraying hailstones and fireballs.
12 From the brightness before Him, His thick clouds passed with hailstones and coals of fire.
12 Thick clouds shielded the brightness around him and rained down hail and burning coals.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 18:12
Commentary on Psalm 18:1-19
(Read Psalm 18:1-19)
The first words, "I will love thee, O Lord, my strength," are the scope and contents of the psalm. Those that truly love God, may triumph in him as their Rock and Refuge, and may with confidence call upon him. It is good for us to observe all the circumstances of a mercy which magnify the power of God and his goodness to us in it. David was a praying man, and God was found a prayer-hearing God. If we pray as he did, we shall speed as he did. God's manifestation of his presence is very fully described, Hebrews 5:7. God made the earth to shake and tremble, and the rocks to cleave, and brought him out, in his resurrection, because he delighted in him and in his undertaking.