Tree of Life Version
Psalms 144:6
6Flash forth lightning and scatter them. Send out Your arrows and confuse 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 a breath— his days are like a passing shadow. 5Adonai, part Your heavens and come down. Touch the mountains, so they smoke. Flash 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, 8whose mouth speaks falsehood, whose right hand is a right hand of deceit.
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 18:13Out of the brilliance before Him passed His thick clouds, hail and fiery coals.
- Psalms 77:17The waters saw You, O God, the waters saw You and writhed, even the depths shook.
- 2 Samuel 22:12He made darkness as a sukkah around Him— a mass of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
- Psalms 7:12God is a righteous judge, a God who is indignant every day.
- Psalms 21:12Though they intended evil against You and devised a plot, they cannot succeed.
- Psalms 45:5In your majesty ride victoriously, on behalf of truth, meekness and justice. Let your right hand display awesome things.
- Deuteronomy 32:23I will heap calamities upon them. With My arrows I will finish 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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