Job 26:9

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.

He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.

We can’t reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

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 said to Moses, “Go down, warn the people, lest they break through to Yahweh to gaze, and many of them perish.

Moses said, “Please show me your glory.”

He said, “You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live.”

and Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at just any time into the Most Holy Place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.

Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.

That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?

You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

They heard Yahweh God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.

Moses went up to God, and Yahweh called to him out of the mountain, saying, “This is what you shall tell the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel:

They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness.

then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back; but my face shall not be seen.”

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

Then Solomon said, “Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him. He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him.

“If I go east, he is not there; if west, I can’t find him;

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

He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.

The King’s strength also loves justice. You establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.

It is an abomination for kings to do wrong, for the throne is established by righteousness.

In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in,

Most certainly you are a God who has hidden yourself, God of Israel, the Savior.’ ”

He reveals the deep and secret things. He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

“I watched until thrones were placed, and one who was ancient of days sat. His clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool. His throne was fiery flames, and its wheels burning fire.

For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

For of him, and through him, and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.

If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

I looked, and saw a white cloud, and on the cloud one sitting like a son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.

I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.

I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.

May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”

God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM,” and he said, “You shall tell the children of Israel this: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ ”

The people stayed at a distance, and Moses came near to the thick darkness where God was.

When Moses entered into the Tent, the pillar of cloud descended, stood at the door of the Tent, and Yahweh spoke with Moses.

No one shall come up with you or be seen anywhere on the mountain. Do not let the flocks or herds graze in front of that mountain.”

No one shall be in the Tent of Meeting when he enters to make atonement in the Holy Place, until he comes out, and has made atonement for himself and for his household, and for all the assembly of Israel.

The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

For I lift up my hand to heaven and declare, as I live forever,

Benjamin went out against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men. All these drew the sword.

Then Solomon said, “Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

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

There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.

It is turned around by his guidance, that they may do whatever he commands them on the surface of the habitable world,

Do you know how God controls them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?

Now men don’t see the light which is bright in the skies, but the wind passes, and clears them.

Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunder storm,

Can you send out lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are?’

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

Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.

Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings with the rain. He brings the wind out of his treasuries.

lightning and hail, snow and clouds; stormy wind, fulfilling his word;

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

You have said to me, Lord Yahweh, ‘Buy the field for money, and call witnesses;’ whereas the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.”

I saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance of fire within it all around, from the appearance of his waist and upward; and from the appearance of his waist and downward I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness around him.

A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.

Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

His splendor is like the sunrise. Rays shine from his hand, where his power is hidden.

Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father.

Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.”

Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’

When neither sun nor stars shone on us for many days, and no small storm pressed on us, all hope that we would be saved was now taken away.

to him be the glory in the assembly and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.

Now to our God and Father be the glory forever and ever! Amen.

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

He alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.

and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father—to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

saying, “Amen! Blessing, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honor, power, and might, be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”

There will be no night, and they need no lamp light or sun light; for the Lord God will illuminate them. They will reign forever and ever.