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2 Samuel 22:10-12
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
2 Samuel 22:10-12
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
10 He parted the heavens and came down,
a dark cloud under his feet.(A)
11 Mounted on a cherub[a] he flew,
borne along on the wings of the wind.(B)
12 He made darkness the cover about him,
a mass of water, heavy thunderheads.
Footnotes
- 22:11 Mounted on a cherub: in the traditional storm theophany, as here, the Lord appears with thunder, lightning, earthquake, rain, darkness, cloud, and wind. Sometimes these are represented as his retinue; sometimes he is said to ride upon the clouds or “the wings of the wind” (Ps 104:3). The parallelism in v. 11 suggests that the winged creatures called cherubim are imagined as bearing the Lord aloft. In the iconography of the ark of the covenant, the Lord was “enthroned upon the cherubim”; cf. Ex 37:7–9; 1 Sm 4:4; 2 Sm 6:2; 2 Kgs 19:15; Ps 80:2; 99:1.
New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)
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