• 2 Samuel 22:8-16
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

    •  8 Back and forth the earth began to shake and rock;+

      The foundations of the heavens trembled+

      And shook back and forth because he had been angered.+

       9 Smoke ascended from his nostrils,

      And a consuming fire came from his mouth;+

      Glowing coals blazed from him.

      10 He made the heavens bend as he descended,+

      And thick gloom was beneath his feet.+

      11 He rode on a cherub+ and came flying.

      He was visible on the wings of a spirit.*+

      12 Then he put darkness around him as a shelter,+

      In dark waters and thick clouds.

      13 From the brightness before him fiery coals blazed.

      14 Then Jehovah began to thunder from heaven;+

      The Most High made his voice heard.+

      15 He shot his arrows+ and scattered them;

      Lightning, and he threw them into confusion.+

      16 The bed of the sea became visible;+

      The foundations of the land were exposed by the rebuke of Jehovah,

      By the blast of the breath from his nostrils.+