English Standard Version
Psalms 144:6
6Flash forth the lightning and scatter them; send out your arrows and rout 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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Flash forth lightning and scatter them; Shoot out Your arrows and destroy them.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Hurl your lightning bolts and scatter your enemies! Shoot your arrows and confuse them!
Context of Psalms 144:6
4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow. 5Bow your heavens, O Lord, and come down! Touch the mountains so that they smoke! Flash 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, 8whose mouths speak lies 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
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 144:6
- Psalms 18:13The Lord 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 gave forth thunder; your arrows flashed on every side.
- 2 Samuel 22:12He made darkness around him his canopy, thick clouds, a gathering of water.
- Psalms 7:12If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and readied his bow;
- Psalms 21:12For you will put them to flight; you will aim at their faces with your bows.
- Psalms 45:5Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; the peoples fall under you.
- Deuteronomy 32:23"'And I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend my arrows on 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
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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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