Parallel Verses
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.
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 a mere breath. His days are like a passing shadow.
5
Names
Cross References
Psalm 18:9
He spread apart the heavens and came down with a dark cloud 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 all in smoke because Jehovah descended upon it in fire. Its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace. The whole mountain quaked violently!
Isaiah 64:1-2
O that you would split open the heavens and come down! The mountains would quake at your presence.
Nahum 1:3-6
Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power! He will by no means reprieve the guilty (leave them unpunished). Jehovah has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm. The clouds are the dust of his feet.
Habakkuk 3:3-6
God came from Teman. He is the Holy One from Mount Paran. His glory covered the heavens! The earth is full of his praise.
Hebrews 12:18
You have not come to a mountain that can be touched, to Mount Sinai with its blazing fire, the darkness and the gloom, the storm.