Psalms Chapter 144 verse 5 Holy Bible
Bow thy heavens, O Jehovah, and come down: Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
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Come down, O Lord, from your heavens: at your touch let the mountains give out smoke.
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Jehovah, bow thy heavens, and come down; touch the mountains, that they smoke;
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Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
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Part your heavens, Yahweh, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
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Jehovah, incline Thy heavens and come down, Strike against mountains, and they smoke.
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Psalms 144 : 5 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down. The strain changes. From praise of God's loving-kindness and might, the psalmist proceeds to invoke his aid. Taking his metaphors from Psalm 18:9. "Bow thy heavens, O Lord," he says, "and come down" to earth - appear in thy might, to the discomfiture of thy enemies and the relief of thy faithful ones. Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. Do as thou wert pleased to do at Sinai, when thou showedst thyself - "Touch the mountains, and let a smoke go up from them" (see Exodus 19:16, 18; Deuteronomy 4:11; Psalm 18:7-14) - a consuming fire, that shall burn up the ungodly.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5) Come down.--The theophany for which the psalmist prays is described in the classic language for such manifestations taken from Psalm 18:9; Psalm 18:13; Psalm 18:16-17; Psalm 18:43; Psalm 18:45, with reminiscences of Psalm 104:32; Exodus 19:18. But there are touches of originality, as in the next clause. . . .