Mark 9:7 (YLT)

Passage

And there came a cloud overshadowing them, and there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, `This is My Son--the Beloved, hear ye him;'

Nearby Context

Mark 9:5 And Peter answering saith to Jesus, `Rabbi, it is good to us to be here; and we may make three booths, for thee one, and for Moses one, and for Elijah one:'

Mark 9:6 for he was not knowing what he might say, for they were greatly afraid.

Mark 9:7 And there came a cloud overshadowing them, and there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, `This is My Son--the Beloved, hear ye him;'

Mark 9:8 and suddenly, having looked around, they saw no one any more, but Jesus only with themselves.

Mark 9:9 And as they are coming down from the mount, he charged them that they may declare to no one the things that they saw, except when the Son of Man may rise out of the dead;

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "came", "cloud", "overshadowing", "voice", "saying", and "son--the". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "came" and "cloud", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 6's "for he was not knowing what he..." into verse 8's "and suddenly having looked around they saw...", so "came" and "cloud" belong inside that flow. In Mark context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "came" and "cloud" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.