English Standard Version
Psalms 144:5
5Bow your heavens, O Lord, and come down! Touch the mountains so that they 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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Bow down Your heavens, O Lord, and come down; Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Open the heavens, Lord, and come down. Touch the mountains so they billow smoke.
Context of Psalms 144:5
3O Lord, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him? 4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow. Bow your heavens, O Lord, and come down! Touch the mountains so that they smoke! 6Flash forth the lightning and scatter them; send out your arrows and rout them! 7Stretch out your hand from on high; rescue me and deliver me from the many waters, from the hand of foreigners,
Read all of Psalms 144Psalms 144:5 word by word
יְ֭הוָה הַט־שָׁמֶ֣יךָ וְתֵרֵ֑ד גַּ֖ע בֶּהָרִ֣ים וְֽיֶעֱשָֽׁנוּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 144:5
- Psalms 18:9He bowed the heavens and came down; thick darkness was under his feet.
- Isaiah 64:1Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence—
- Psalms 104:32who looks on the earth and it trembles, who touches the mountains and they smoke!
- Exodus 19:18Now Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke because the Lord had descended on it in fire. The smoke of it went up like the smoke of a kiln, and the whole mountain trembled greatly.
- Nahum 1:3The Lord is slow to anger and great in power, and the Lord will by no means clear the guilty. His way is in whirlwind and 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 splendor covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.
- Hebrews 12:18For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a 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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