New King James Version
Psalms 144:5
5Bow down Your heavens, O Lord, 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 Living Translation (NLT)Open the heavens, Lord, and come down. Touch the mountains so they billow smoke.
Context of Psalms 144:5
3Lord, what is man, that You take knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that You are mindful of him? 4Man is like a breath; His days are like a passing shadow. Bow down Your heavens, O Lord, and come down; Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. 6Flash forth lightning and scatter them; Shoot out Your arrows and destroy them. 7Stretch out Your hand from above; Rescue me and deliver me out of great 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 also, and came down With darkness under His feet.
- Isaiah 64:1Oh, that You would rend the heavens! That You would come down! That the mountains might shake at Your presence—
- Psalms 104:32He looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the hills, and they smoke.
- Exodus 19:18Now Mount Sinai was completely in smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire. Its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.
- Nahum 1:3The Lord is slow to anger and great in power, And will not at all acquit the wicked. The Lord has His way In the whirlwind and in the storm, And the clouds are the dust of His feet.
- Habakkuk 3:3God came from Teman, The Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His glory covered the heavens, And the earth was full of His praise.
- Hebrews 12:18For you have not come to the mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to 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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