Parallel Verses
Amplified
Bow Your heavens, O Lord, and come down;
Touch the mountains, and they will 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.
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.
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 a mere breath;
His days are like a shadow that passes away.
Bow Your heavens, O Lord, and come down;
Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
Flash lightning and scatter my enemies;
Send out Your arrows and confuse and embarrass and frustrate them.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 18:9
He bowed the heavens also and came down;
And thick darkness was under His feet.
Psalm 104:32
He looks at the earth, and it trembles;
He touches the mountains, and they smoke.
Exodus 19:18
Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke because the Lord descended upon it in fire; its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.
Isaiah 64:1-2
That the mountains might quake at Your presence—
Nahum 1:3-6
The Lord is slow to anger and great in power
And He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished.
The Lord has His way in the whirlwind and in the storm,
And the clouds are the dust beneath His feet.
Habakkuk 3:3-6
God [approaching from Sinai] comes from Teman (Edom),
And the Holy One from
His splendor and majesty covers the heavens
And the earth is full of His praise.
Hebrews 12:18
For you have not come [as did the Israelites in the wilderness] to a mountain that can be touched and to a blazing fire, and to gloom and darkness and a raging windstorm,