O LORD, tear the sky open and come down; touch the mountains, and they will pour out smoke.

Why don't you tear the sky open and come down? The mountains would see you and shake with fear.

There was a time when you came and did terrifying things that we did not expect; the mountains saw you and shook with fear.

But the people continued to stand a long way off, and only Moses went near the dark cloud where God was.

"Tell your children how you went and stood at the foot of the mountain which was covered with thick clouds of dark smoke and fire blazing up to the sky.

Then Solomon prayed: "You, LORD, have placed the sun in the sky, yet you have chosen to live in clouds and darkness.

Clouds and darkness surround him; he rules with righteousness and justice.

and built your home on the waters above. You use the clouds as your chariot and ride on the wings of the wind.

At noon the whole country was covered with darkness, which lasted for three hours.

It was about twelve o'clock when the sun stopped shining and darkness covered the whole country until three o'clock; and the curtain hanging in the Temple was torn in two.

(SEE 23:44)