Psalms 144:5
What does Psalms 144:5 mean?
A plain-English look at Psalms 144:5 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Bow thy heavens, O Jehovah, and come down: Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Bow thy heavens, O Jehovah, and come down: Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Come down, O Lord, from your heavens: at your touch let the mountains give out smoke.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Jehovah, incline Thy heavens and come down, Strike against mountains, and they smoke.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752They shall speak of the magnificence of the glory of thy holiness: and shall tell thy wondrous works.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Jehovah, bow thy heavens, and come down; touch the mountains, that they smoke;
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Hebrews 12:18
For ye are not come unto a mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
- Exodus 19:18
And mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because Jehovah descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
- Psalms 104:32
Who looketh on the earth, and it trembleth; He toucheth the mountains, and they smoke.
- Nahum 1:3
Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means clear the guilty: Jehovah hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
- Isaiah 64:1
Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might quake at thy presence,
- Habakkuk 3:3
God came from Teman, And the Holy One from mount Paran. [Selah His glory covered the heavens, And the earth was full of his praise.
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