“... In some cases, however, the portrayal of Yahweh includes some far more pointed references. Baal’s epithet rkb.‘rpt “rider of the clouds,” attested (so far) sixteen times at Ugarit, is found word-for-word [...] in Ps. 68.5 (Eng. 4), in similar forms in Psalm 104.3 [...] and in Isa. 19.1 [...]. Commentators have long seen this as a taking over of the standard description of the Canaan storm-god. [...] The depiction of Yahweh riding upon a cloud in Isaiah 19.1 is set in a chapter which begins with an oracle of Yahweh against Egypt and ends on a strikingly universalistic note. In the future, both the Egyptians and the Assyrians will worship Yahweh and be considered his people, anticipating the monotheistic concept of Yahweh’s universal rule. Hence, appropriation is clearly at work in this oracle against Egypt, which ascribes to Yahweh the exclusive control of the waters of the Nile (vv. 5–10). The focus of the appropriation is the host of Egyptian gods rather than Baal, even though Baal was equated with Seth in Egypt. Thus, Yahweh’s riding upon a cloud and his taking over of the waters of the Nile in Isaiah 19 are clues of an implied polemic, but directed against the Egyptian pantheon. ...”