Psalms 97:2 - Exposition

Clouds and darkness are round about him (comp. Exodus 19:16 , Exodus 19:18 ; Deuteronomy 4:11 ; Deuteronomy 5:22 :1Ki Deuteronomy 8:12 ). The "darkness" does not belong to the nature of God, who "is Light, and in him is no darkness at all" ( 1 John 1:5 ), but to the interrelationship between God and man, in which are involved problems that man cannot solve. Righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne; rather, the foundation of his throne— the firm basis on which it is immovably fixed.