Psalms 144:6
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; Send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
In Context
5Bow thy heavens, O Jehovah, and come down: Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:23I will heap evils upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them:
2 Samuel 22:12And he made darkness pavilions round about him, Gathering of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
Psalms 18:13Jehovah also thundered in the heavens, And the Most High uttered his voice, Hailstones and coals of fire.
Psalms 21:12For thou wilt make them turn their back; Thou wilt make ready with thy bowstrings against their face.
Psalms 64:8So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them: All that see them shall wag the head.
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 →