SEV Biblia, Chapter 18:9
Y bajó a los cielos, y descendió; y había oscuridad debajo de sus pies.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Psalms 17:10
Verse 10. He rode upon a cherub, and did fly-That is, as it is immediately explained, Yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. God was in the storm, and by the ministry of angels guided the course of it, and drove it on with such an impetuous force as nothing could withstand. He 'rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.' Angels are in a peculiar sense the attendants and messengers of the Almighty, whom he employs as his ministers in effecting many of those great events which take place in the administration of his providence; and particularly such as manifest his immediate interposition in the extraordinary judgments which he inflicts for the punishment of sinful nations. See Psa. ciii. 20; civ. 4. The cherub is particularly mentioned as an emblem of the Divine presence, and especially as employed in supporting and conveying the chariot of the Almighty, when he is represented as riding in his majesty through the firmament of heaven: -- Forth rush'd with whirlwind sound The chariot of paternal Deity; Flashing thick flames, wheel within wheel undrawn, Itself instinct with spirit, but convey'd By four cherubic shapes. Par. Lost, lib. vi.
This seems to be the image intended to be conveyed in the place before us.
"He rode upon a cherub, and did fly; he flew on the wings of the wind," i.e., the cherub supported and led on the tempest, in which the Almighty rode as in his chariot. This is agreeable to the office elsewhere ascribed to the cherubim. Thus they supported the mercy-seat, which was peculiarly the throne of God under the Jewish economy. God is expressly said to "make the clouds his chariot," Psa. civ. 3; and to "ride upon a swift cloud," Isaiah xix. 1: so that "riding upon a cherub," and "riding upon a swift cloud," is riding in the cloud as his chariot, supported and guided by the ministry of the cherubim. The next clause in the parallel place of Samuel is, "He was seen on the wings of the wind;" ary yera, he was seen, being used for ady yede, he flew, d daleth being changed into r resh.
Either of them may be the true reading, for the MSS. are greatly divided on these places; but on the whole aryw vaiyera appears to be the better reading: "And he was seen on the wings of the wind." As the original has been supposed by adequate judges to exhibit a fine specimen of that poetry which, in the choice of its terms, conveys both sense and sound, I will again lay it before the reader, as I have done in the parallel place, 2 Sam. xxii. 2. The words in italic to be read from right to left.
P[yw bwrk l[ bkryw "vaiyaoph kerub al vayirkab" And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly! jwr ypnk l[ adyw "ruach canphey al waiyede" Yea, he flew on the wings of the wind! The word jwr ruach, in the last line, should be pronounced, not ruak, which is no Hebrew word: but as a Scottish man would pronounce it, were it written ruagh. With this observation, how astonishingly is the rushing of the wind heard in the last word of each hemistich! Sternhold and Hopkins have succeeded in their version of this place, not only beyond all they ever did, but beyond every ancient and modern poet on a similar subject: - "On cherub and on cherubin Full royally he rode; And on the wings of mighty winds Came flying all abroad." Even the old Anglo-Scottish Psalter has not done amiss: - "And he steygh aboven cherubyn and he flow;"He flow aboven the fethers of wyndes."
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-19 - The first words, "I will love thee, O Lord, my strength," are the scop and contents of the psalm. Those that truly love God, may triumph in him as their Rock and Refuge, and may with confidence call upon him. It is good for us to observe all the circumstances of a mercy whic magnify the power of God and his goodness to us in it. David was praying man, and God was found a prayer-hearing God. If we pray as he did, we shall speed as he did. God's manifestation of his presence i very fully described, ver. #(7-15). Little appeared of man, but much of God, in these deliverances. It is not possible to apply to the histor of the son of Jesse those awful, majestic, and stupendous words whic are used through this description of the Divine manifestation. Ever part of so solemn a scene of terrors tells us, a greater than David i here. God will not only deliver his people out of their troubles in du time, but he will bear them up under their troubles in the mean time Can we meditate on ver. 18, without directing one thought to Gethseman and Calvary? Can we forget that it was in the hour of Christ's deepes calamity, when Judas betrayed, when his friends forsook, when the multitude derided him, and the smiles of his Father's love wer withheld, that the powers of darkness prevented him? The sorrows of death surrounded him, in his distress he prayed, Heb 5:7. God made the earth to shake and tremble, and the rocks to cleave, and brought his out, in his resurrection, because he delighted in him and in his undertaking.
Original Hebrew
ויט 5186 שׁמים 8064 וירד 3381 וערפל 6205 תחת 8478 רגליו׃ 7272
