Clouds and darkness [are] round about him: righteousness and judgment [are] the habitation of his throne.
Ver. 2. Clouds and darkness are round about him] As once at the delivering of the law, so now in publishing the gospel, he is no less terrible, having vengeance in store for the disobedient, 2 Corinthians 10:6. It is a savour of death to unbelievers. Christ came to send fire on the earth, Luke 12:49 .
Righteousness and judgment, &c.] Mercy Christ hath for the penitent, judgment for the rebellious, who seek to dethrone him. Woe to those gospel sinners.