Psalms 144:6
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: send out thy arrows, and confound them.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
In Context
5O Lord, bend thy heavens, and come down: touch the mountains, that they may smoke.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:23I will heap upon them miseries; all my arrows will I spend upon them.
2 Samuel 22:12And he made darkness round about him into pavilions, heavy masses of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
Psalms 18:13(18:14) And the Lord thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered forth his voice, [with] hail-stones and coals of fire.
Psalms 21:12(21:13) For thou wilt make them turn their back; upon thy bow-strings thou wilt make ready [thy arrows] against their face.
Psalms 64:8(64:9) And their own tongues will stumble over themselves: all that look on them will shake their 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 →