Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Bow Your heavens, O Lord, and come down;
Touch the mountains, that they may smoke.

King James Version

Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

Holman Bible

Lord, part Your heavens and come down.
Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.

International Standard Version

Bow your heavens, LORD, and descend; touch the mountains, and they will smolder.

A Conservative Version

Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

American Standard Version

Bow thy heavens, O Jehovah, and come down: Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

Amplified


Bow Your heavens, O Lord, and come down;
Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.

Darby Translation

Jehovah, bow thy heavens, and come down; touch the mountains, that they smoke;

Julia Smith Translation

O Jehovah, incline thy heavens, and thou wilt come down: touch upon the mountains and they shall smoke.

King James 2000

Bow your heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

Lexham Expanded Bible

O Yahweh, bow the heavens and come down; touch the mountains so that they smoke.

Modern King James verseion

Bow down Your heavens, O Jehovah, and come down; touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke withal.

NET Bible

O Lord, make the sky sink and come down! Touch the mountains and make them smolder!

New Heart English Bible

Part your heavens, LORD, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.

The Emphasized Bible

O Yahweh! bow thy heavens and come down, Touch the mountains, that they smoke:

Webster

Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

World English Bible

Part your heavens, Yahweh, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.

Youngs Literal Translation

Jehovah, incline Thy heavens and come down, Strike against mountains, and they smoke.

References

Hastings

Context Readings

A King's Prayer

4 Man is like unto vanity; his days are as a shadow that passes away. 5 Bow Your heavens, O Lord, and come down;
Touch the mountains, that they may smoke.
6 Cast forth lightning and scatter them; shoot out thine arrows and destroy them.


Cross References

Psalm 18:9

He lowered the heavens and came down; and darkness was under his feet.

Psalm 104:32

He looks on the earth, and it trembles: he touches the mountains, and they smoke.

Exodus 19:18

And all Mount Sinai smoked because the LORD had descended upon it in fire, and its smoke ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

Isaiah 64:1-2

Oh that thou would rend the heavens, that thou would come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,

Nahum 1:3-6

The LORD is slow to anger and great in power and will not at all treat the guilty as though they were innocent; the LORD whose way is in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

Habakkuk 3:3-6

God shall come from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was filled with his praise.

Hebrews 12:18

For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched and that burned with fire nor unto blackness and darkness and tempest

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