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Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever.” Moses told the words of the people to Yahweh.

“Yahweh, when you went out of Seir, when you marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the sky also dropped. Yes, the clouds dropped water.

He made darkness a shelter around himself: gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’

On the seventh time, he said, “Behold, a small cloud, like a man’s hand, is rising out of the sea.” He said, “Go up, tell Ahab, ‘Get ready and go down, so that the rain doesn’t stop you.’ ”

In a little while, the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.

Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,

Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn’t see. He walks on the vault of the sky.’

He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.

Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.

Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, and the thunderings of his pavilion?

Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning.

Do you know the workings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?

“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you?

He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire.

The clouds poured out water. The skies resounded with thunder. Your arrows also flashed around.

He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.

who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains.

In the light of the king’s face is life. His favor is like a cloud of the spring rain.

If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth; and if a tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there shall it be.

He who observes the wind won’t sow; and he who regards the clouds won’t reap.

Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;

I will lay it a wasteland. It won’t be pruned or hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.”

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!”

For Yahweh said to me, “I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

The burden of Egypt. “Behold, Yahweh rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt will melt within it.

As the heat in a dry place you will bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the dreaded ones will be brought low.

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.

“Who are these who fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?

Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen and archers. They go into the thickets, and climb up on the rocks. Every city is forsaken, and not a man dwells therein.