Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Holman Bible
Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
International Standard Version
Bow your heavens, LORD, and descend; touch the mountains, and they will smolder.
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
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 144:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
A King's Prayer
4 Man is like vanity. His days are as a shadow that passes away. 5 Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. 6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them. Send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 18:9
He also bowed the heavens, and came down, and thick darkness was under his feet.
Psalm 104:32
who looks on the earth, and it trembles. He touches the mountains, and they smoke.
Exodus 19:18
And mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because LORD descended upon it in fire, and the smoke of it 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 quake at thy presence,
Nahum 1:3-6
LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means clear [the guilty]. LORD has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Habakkuk 3:3-6
God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.
Hebrews 12:18
For ye have not come to a mountain being felt, and which burned with fire, and to darkness, and gloom, and a tempest,