12 He made darkness his canopy around him- the dark
12 He made darkness around him his canopy, thick clouds, a gathering of water.
12 He wrapped himself in a trenchcoat of black rain-cloud darkness.
12 He made darkness canopies around Him, Dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
12 He shrouded himself in darkness, veiling his approach with dense rain clouds.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on 2 Samuel 22:12
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David's psalm of thanksgiving.
This chapter is a psalm of praise; we find it afterwards nearly as 2 Timothy 4:18. Those who receive signal mercies from God, ought to give him the glory. In the day that God delivered David, he sang this song. While the mercy is fresh, and we are most affected with it, let the thank-offering be brought, to be kindled with the fire of that affection. All his joys and hopes close, as all our hopes should do, in the great Redeemer.