American Standard Version
Psalms 144:6
6Cast forth lightning, and scatter them;Send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.
Psalms 144:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
- New International Version (NIV)Send forth lightning and scatter the enemy; shoot your arrows and rout them.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Flash forth the lightning and scatter them; send out your arrows and rout them!
- New King James Version (NKJV)Flash forth lightning and scatter them; Shoot out Your arrows and destroy them.
Context of Psalms 144:6
4Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away. 5Bow thy heavens, O Jehovah, and come down: Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. Cast 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; 8Whose mouth speaketh deceit, And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
Read all of Psalms 144Psalms 144:6 word by word
בְּר֣וֹק בָּ֭רָק וּתְפִיצֵ֑ם שְׁלַ֥ח חִ֝צֶּ֗יךָ וּתְהֻמֵּֽם׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 144:6
- Psalms 18:13Jehovah also thundered in the heavens, And the Most High uttered his voice, Hailstones and coals of fire.
- Psalms 77:17The clouds poured out water; The skies sent out a sound: Thine arrows also went abroad.
- 2 Samuel 22:12And he made darkness pavilions round about him, Gathering of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
- Psalms 7:12If a man turn not, he will whet his sword; He hath bent his bow, and made it ready;
- Psalms 21:12For thou wilt make them turn their back; Thou wilt make ready with thy bowstrings against their face.
- Psalms 45:5Thine arrows are sharp; The peoples fall under thee; They arein the heart of the king’s enemies.
- Deuteronomy 32:23I will heap evils upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them:
Commentaries on Psalms 144:6
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6Cast forth lightnings, and scatter them - See the notes at Psalm 18:14: “He sent out his arrows, and scattered them.” The allusion there is to lightning. The psalmist prays that; God would do now again what he had then done. The Hebrew here is, “Lighten lightning;” that is, Send forth lightning. The word is used as a verb nowhere else. Shoot out thine arrows - So in Psalm 18:14: “He shot out lightnings.” The words are the same here as in that psalm…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
Topics related to Psalms 144:6
In the dictionaries
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
American Standard Version — 1901 — Public Domain
Commentaries