Parallel Verses
King James 2000
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out your arrows, and destroy them.
New American Standard Bible
Send out Your
King James Version
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
Holman Bible
shoot Your arrows and rout them.
International Standard Version
Send forth lightning and scatter the enemy, shoot your arrows and confuse them.
A Conservative Version
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them. Send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.
American Standard Version
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; Send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.
Amplified
Flash lightning and scatter my enemies;
Send out Your arrows and confuse and embarrass and frustrate them.
Darby Translation
Cast forth lightnings, and scatter them; send forth thine arrows, and discomfit them:
Julia Smith Translation
Send forth the lightning, and thou wilt scatter them: send thine arrows, and thou wilt destroy them.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Flash forth lightning and scatter them; dispatch your arrows and rout them.
Modern King James verseion
Cast forth lightning and scatter them; shoot out Your arrows and destroy them.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Cast forth thy lightning, and tear them; shoot out thine arrows, and consume them.
NET Bible
Hurl lightning bolts and scatter them! Shoot your arrows and rout them!
New Heart English Bible
Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them.
The Emphasized Bible
Flash forth lightning, that thou mayest scatter them, Send out thine arrows, that thou mayest confound them:
Webster
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot thy arrows, and destroy them.
World English Bible
Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them.
Youngs Literal Translation
Send forth lightning, and scatter them, Send forth Thine arrows, and trouble them,
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 144:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
A King's Prayer
5 Bow your heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. 6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out your arrows, and destroy them. 7 Send your hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of foreigners;
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:23
I will heap evils upon them; I will spend my arrows upon them.
Deuteronomy 32:42
I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the heads of the leaders of the enemy.
2 Samuel 22:12-15
And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
Psalm 7:12-13
If he turns not, he will whet his sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready.
Psalm 18:13-14
The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
Psalm 21:12
Therefore shall you make them turn their back, when you shall make ready your arrows upon your strings toward their face.
Psalm 45:5
Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; by which the people fall under you.
Psalm 77:17-18
The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: your arrows also went abroad.