Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

Bow down Your heavens, O Jehovah, and come down; touch the mountains, and they shall 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 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 vanity; his days are like a shadow that passes away. 5 Bow down Your heavens, O Jehovah, and come down; touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. 6 Cast forth lightning and scatter them; shoot out Your arrows and destroy them.

Cross References

Psalm 18:9

And He bowed the heavens and came down, and darkness was under His feet.

Psalm 104:32

He looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the hills, and they smoke.

Exodus 19:18

And Mount Sinai was smoking, all of it, because Jehovah came down upon it in fire. And the smoke of it went up like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.

Isaiah 64:1-2

Oh that You would tear the heavens and come down, that mountains would quake before You,

Nahum 1:3-6

Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power. And He does not by any means acquit the guilty. Jehovah has His way in the tempest and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of His feet.

Habakkuk 3:3-6

God comes from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His glory covers the heavens, and His praise fills the earth.

Hebrews 12:18

For you have not come to the mountain that might be touched and that burned with fire, nor to blackness and darkness and tempest,

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