6. In my distress [when seemingly closed in] I called upon the Lord and cried to my God; He heard my voice out of His temple (heavenly dwelling place), and my cry came before Him, into His [very] ears.
7. Then the earth quaked and rocked, the foundations also of the mountains trembled; they moved and were shaken because He was indignant and angry.
8. There went up smoke from His nostrils; and lightning out of His mouth devoured; coals were kindled by it.
9. He bowed the heavens also and came down; and thick darkness was under His feet.
10. And He rode upon a cherub [a storm] and flew [swiftly]; yes, He sped on with the wings of the wind.
11. He made darkness His secret hiding place; as His pavilion (His canopy) round about Him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
12. Out of the brightness before Him there broke forth through His thick clouds hailstones and coals of fire.
13. The Lord also thundered from the heavens, and the Most High uttered His voice, amid hailstones and coals of fire.
14. And He sent out His arrows and scattered them; and He flashed forth lightnings and put them to rout.
15. Then the beds of the sea appeared and the foundations of the world were laid bare at Your rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.
16. He reached from on high, He took me; He drew me out of many waters.
17. He delivered me from my strong enemy and from those who hated and abhorred me, for they were too strong for me.
18. They confronted and came upon me in the day of my calamity, but the Lord was my stay and support.