Then Solomon prayed: “Our LORD, you said that you would live in a dark cloud.
You opened the heavens like curtains, and you came down with storm clouds under your feet.
The Lord's glory was in the cloud, and the light from it was so bright that the priests could not stay inside to do their work.
Ezra was up on the high platform, where he could be seen by everyone, and when he opened the book, they all stood up.
Dark clouds surround him, and his throne is supported by justice and fairness.
But when Moses went near the thick cloud where God was, the people stayed a long way off.
People of Israel, your God is a mystery, though he alone can save.
Mount Sinai was surrounded by deep dark clouds, and fire went up to the sky. You came to the foot of the mountain,
When we were gathered on the mountain, the LORD spoke to us in a loud voice from the dark fiery cloud. The LORD gave us these commands, and only these. Then he wrote them on two flat stones and gave them to me.
You have not come to a place like Mount Sinai that can be seen and touched. There is no flaming fire or dark cloud or storm