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 a mere breath;
His days are like a passing shadow.
5 Bow Your heavens, O Lord, and come down;
Touch the mountains, that they may smoke.
6 Flash forth lightning and scatter them;
Send out Your arrows and confuse them.


Cross References

Psalm 18:9

He bowed the heavens also, and came down
With thick darkness under His feet.

Psalm 104:32

He looks at the earth, and it trembles;
He touches the mountains, and they smoke.

Exodus 19:18

Now Mount Sinai was all in smoke because the Lord descended upon it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.

Isaiah 64:1-2

Oh, that You would rend the heavens and come down,
That the mountains might quake at Your presence—

Nahum 1:3-6

The Lord is slow to anger and great in power,
And the Lord will by no means leave the guilty unpunished.
In whirlwind and storm is His way,
And clouds are the dust beneath His feet.

Habakkuk 3:3-6

God comes from Teman,
And the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah.
His splendor covers the heavens,
And the earth is full of His praise.

Hebrews 12:18

For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and to a blazing fire, and to darkness and gloom and whirlwind,

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