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Psalms 144:5

Psalms chapter 144 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Bow thy heavens, O Jehovah, and come down: Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Bow thy heavens, O Jehovah, and come down: Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

Context

v.4Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.

v.5This passage

v.6Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; Send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.

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.