Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

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

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.

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 The earthborn, resembleth, a vapour, his days, are like a passing shadow. 5 O Yahweh! bow thy heavens and come down, Touch the mountains, that they smoke: 6 Flash forth lightning, that thou mayest scatter them, Send out thine arrows, that thou mayest confound them:

Cross References

Psalm 18:9

Then he stretched out the heaven, and came down, - and, thick gloom, was under his feet;

Psalm 104:32

Who looketh at the earth, and it trembleth, He toucheth the mountains, and they smoke.

Exodus 19:18

And Mount Sinai, smoked, all over, because Yahweh had come down thereon in fire, - and the smoke thereof went up as the smoke of a furnace, and all the mountain trembled exceedingly.

Isaiah 64:1-2

Would that thou hadst rent the heavens, hadst come down,

Nahum 1:3-6

Yahweh, is slow to anger, but great in vigour, He will not leave, unpunished, as for Yahweh, in storm-wind and in tempest, is his way, and, clouds, are the dust of his feet.

Habakkuk 3:3-6

GOD, from Teman, cometh in, and, the Holy One, from Mount Paran. Selah. His splendour, hath covered the heavens, and, his praise, hath filled the earth:

Hebrews 12:18

For ye have not approached - unto, a searching and scorching fire, and gloom, and mist, and tempest,

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