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Psalms 144:5
5Bow Your heavens, O Lord, and come down; Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
Psalms 144:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
- New International Version (NIV)Part your heavens, Lord, and come down; touch the mountains, so that they smoke.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Bow your heavens, O Lord, and come down! Touch the mountains so that they smoke!
- New King James Version (NKJV)Bow down Your heavens, O Lord, and come down; Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Context of Psalms 144:5
3Lord, what is man that You take notice of him? Or the son of man that You think of him? 4Man is like a mere breath; His days are like a shadow that passes away. Bow Your heavens, O Lord, and come down; Touch the mountains, and they will smoke. 6Flash lightning and scatter my enemies; Send out Your arrows and confuse and embarrass and frustrate them. 7Stretch out Your hand from above; Set me free and rescue me from great waters, Out of the hands of [hostile] foreigners [who surround us]
Read all of Psalms 144Psalms 144:5 word by word
יְ֭הוָה הַט־שָׁמֶ֣יךָ וְתֵרֵ֑ד גַּ֖ע בֶּהָרִ֣ים וְֽיֶעֱשָֽׁנוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 144:5
- Psalms 18:9He bowed the heavens also and came down; And thick darkness was under His feet.
- Isaiah 64:1Oh, that You would tear open the heavens and come down, That the mountains might quake at Your presence—
- Psalms 104:32He looks at the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they smoke.
- Exodus 19:18Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke because the Lord descended upon it in fire; its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.
- Nahum 1:3The Lord is slow to anger and great in power And He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. The Lord has His way in the whirlwind and in the storm, And the clouds are the dust beneath His feet.
- Habakkuk 3:3God [approaching from Sinai] comes from Teman (Edom), And the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah (pause, and calmly think of that). His splendor and majesty covers the heavens And the earth is full of His praise.
- Hebrews 12:18For you have not come [as did the Israelites in the wilderness] to a mountain that can be touched and to a blazing fire, and to gloom and darkness and a raging windstorm,
Commentaries on Psalms 144:5
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5Bow thy heavens, O Lord - Come to my aid “as if” the heavens were bent down; come down with all thy majesty and glory. See the notes at Psalm 18:9: “He bowed down the heavens also, and came down.” What it is there declared that the Lord “had” done, he is here implored to do again. Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke - See the notes at Psalm 104:32: “He toucheth the hills, and they smoke.” It is there affirmed as a characteristic of God that he…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5-8The psalmist asks God to act against his enemies (compare Psalm 18:7–19).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 144
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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