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Psalms 144:6

Cause lightning to flash with the result that your enemies will run away! Shoot your arrows at them and cause them to ◄run away/scatter►.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.

In Context

5Yahweh, ◄tear open/open up► the sky and come down! Touch the mountains in order that smoke will pour out from them!

7It is as though my enemies surround me like a flood; reach your hand down from heaven and rescue me from them [SYN]. They are men from other countries

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:23I will cause them to experience many disasters; they will feel as though [MET] I am shooting all my arrows at them.

2 Samuel 22:12The darkness surrounded you, like a blanket; thick clouds that were full of water also surrounded you.

Psalms 18:13Then Yahweh spoke in a loud voice from the sky, and his enemies heard his voice that sounded like thunder.

Psalms 21:12You will cause them to run away [IDM] by shooting arrows at them.

Psalms 64:8Because of what they say [MTY], he will get rid of them, and then everyone who sees what has happened to them will shake their heads to ridicule them.

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

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Study Psalms 144:6

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