Psalm 144:5 “Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that th…”

Psalm 144:5

Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Part your heavens, LORD, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Bow thine heauens, O Lord, and come downe: touch the mountaines and they shall smoke.

Darby Translation

Jehovah, bow thy heavens, and come down; touch the mountains, that they smoke;

Young's Literal Translation

Jehovah, incline Thy heavens and come down, Strike against mountains, and they smoke.

Bible in Basic English

Come down, O Lord, from your heavens: at your touch let the mountains give out smoke.

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Cross references

“Bow”

Psalm 18:9 Isaiah 64:1 Isaiah 64:2

Psalm 18:9 · BSB

He parted the heavens and came down with dark clouds beneath His feet.

Isaiah 64:1 · BSB

If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,

Isaiah 64:2 · BSB

as fire kindles the brushwood and causes the water to boil, to make Your name known to Your enemies, so that the nations will tremble at Your presence!

“touch”

Psalm 104:32 Exodus 19:18 Habakkuk 3:3–6 Nahum 1:3–6 Hebrews 12:18

Psalm 104:32 · BSB

He looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they smolder.

Exodus 19:18 · BSB

Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke, because the LORD had descended on it in fire. And the smoke rose like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.

Habakkuk 3:3–6 · BSB

God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His glory covered the heavens, and His praise filled the earth.

Nahum 1:3–6 · BSB

The LORD is slow to anger and great in power; the LORD will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and clouds are the dust beneath His feet.

Hebrews 12:18 · BSB

For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom, and storm;

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

6Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them.

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