Psalms 144:5
Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
In Context
4Man is like vanity. His days are as a shadow that passes away.
6Cast forth lightning, and scatter them. Send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.
Cross References
Exodus 19:18And mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because LORD descended upon it in fire, and the smoke of it ascended as the smoke of a furnace. And the whole mount quaked greatly.
Psalms 18:10And he rode upon a cherub, and flew. Yea, he soared upon the wings of the wind.
Isaiah 64:1Oh that thou would rend the heavens, that thou would come down, that the mountains might quake at thy presence,
Habakkuk 3:3God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 144:2-9
Grateful Acknowledgments of Divine Goodness; Prayer for Success against Enemies. 1 Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight: 2 My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me. 3 Lord , what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him! 4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away. 5 Bow thy heavens, O Lord , and… Read the whole commentary →