Psalms 144:5
O Lord, bend thy heavens, and come down: touch the mountains, that they may smoke.
Leeser Tanakh
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 the breath: his days are like a passing shadow.
6Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: send out thy arrows, and confound them.
Cross References
Exodus 19:18And mount Sinai smoked in every part, because the Lord had descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
Psalms 18:10(18:11) And he rode upon a cherub, and flew along, and he flitted by upon the wings of the wind.
Isaiah 64:1(63:19) Oh that thou mightest rend the heavens, come down: at thy presence would mountains [then] melt away.
Habakkuk 3:3[When] God from Theman came, and the Holy One from mount Paran, Selah: his glory covered the heavens, and of his praise the earth was full.
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 →