Psalms 144:6
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; send out Thine arrows, and discomfit them.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
In Context
5O LORD, bow Thy heavens, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may 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 18:13(18-14) The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High gave forth His voice; hailstones and coals of fire.
Psalms 21:12(21-13) For thou shalt make them turn their back, thou shalt make ready with thy bowstrings against the face of them.
Psalms 64:8(64-9) So they make their own tongue a stumbling unto themselves; all that see them shake 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 →