Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 97:2

2 Clouds and darkness are round about him : righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.

A dark cloud doth encompass him. Wherein he seems to allude to that dark Cloud in which God did antiently so often manifest his presence for the comfort of his Saints, and for the terror and punishment of evil-doers. The design of these words is to describe either 1. the depth and unsearchableness of Gods judgments. Or 2. the obscurity of Christs coming, that the Divine Majesty did vail himself with flesh and came not with that outward splendour which the Jews expected. Or rather 3. the terror of his presence and coming to his Enemies, of which he manifestly speaks in the following Verses; and of which the Prophets frequently speak when they make mention of his coming, as Ioel 2. 31, 22. Mal. 4. 1.

i. e. Righteous judgment or righteousness in judgment.

Or, the foundation or establishment; for the throne is established (and the Hebrew Verb there is the same from whence this word here comes) by righteousness, Prov. 16. 12. All his Decrees and Administrations are grounded upon and managed with righteousness.

Marginal references: Psal. 89. 14.; Or, establishment, or place.