American Standard Version
Psalms 144:5
5Bow thy heavens, O Jehovah, and come down:Touch the mountains, and they shall 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
3Jehovah, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that thou makest account of him? 4Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away. Bow thy heavens, O Jehovah, and come down: Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. 6Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; Send out thine arrows, and discomfit them. 7Stretch forth thy hand from above; Rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, Out of the hand of aliens;
Read all of Psalms 144Psalms 144:5 word by word
יְ֭הוָה הַט־שָׁמֶ֣יךָ וְתֵרֵ֑ד גַּ֖ע בֶּהָרִ֣ים וְֽיֶעֱשָֽׁנוּ׃Read the interlinear
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 thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might quake at thy presence,
- Psalms 104:32Who looketh on the earth, and it trembleth; He toucheth the mountains, and they smoke.
- Exodus 19:18And mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because Jehovah descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
- Nahum 1:3Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means clear the guilty: Jehovah hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
- Habakkuk 3:3God came from Teman, And the Holy One from mount Paran. [Selah His glory covered the heavens, And the earth was full of his praise.
- Hebrews 12:18For ye are not come unto a mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
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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