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Psalms 144:5
5Adonai, part Your heavens and come down. Touch the mountains, so 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.
- 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
3Adonai, what is man, that You take note of him? Or the son of man, that You consider him? 4Man is like a breath— his days are like a passing shadow. Adonai, part Your heavens and come down. Touch the mountains, so they smoke. 6Flash forth lightning and scatter them. Send out Your arrows and confuse them. 7Stretch forth Your hands from on high. Snatch me, deliver me out of deep waters, out of the hand of foreigners,
Read all of Psalms 144Psalms 144:5 word by word
יְ֭הוָה הַט־שָׁמֶ֣יךָ וְתֵרֵ֑ד גַּ֖ע בֶּהָרִ֣ים וְֽיֶעֱשָֽׁנוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 144:5
- Psalms 18:9Smoke rose from His nostrils and consuming fire from His mouth. Coals blazed from Him.
- Isaiah 64:1As fire kindles brushwood, as fire causes water to boil, make Your Name known to Your foes, so the nations may tremble before You!
- Psalms 104:32He looks at the earth, and it trembles. He touches the mountains, and they smoke.
- Exodus 19:18Now the entire Mount Sinai was in smoke, because Adonai had descended upon it in fire. The smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace. The whole mountain quaked greatly.
- Nahum 1:3Adonai is slow to anger and great in power, but He will by no means acquit the guilty. Adonai’s way is with a whirlwind or with a storm wind, Clouds are the dust of His feet.
- Habakkuk 3:3God comes from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His majesty covers the heavens, and His praise fills the earth.
- Hebrews 12:18For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched, and to a blazing fire, and to darkness and gloom and storm,
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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