Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Flash forth lightning and scatter them; dispatch your arrows and rout them.
New American Standard Bible
Send out Your
King James Version
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
Holman Bible
shoot Your arrows and rout them.
International Standard Version
Send forth lightning and scatter the enemy, shoot your arrows and confuse them.
A Conservative Version
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them. Send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.
American Standard Version
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; Send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.
Amplified
Flash lightning and scatter my enemies;
Send out Your arrows and confuse and embarrass and frustrate them.
Darby Translation
Cast forth lightnings, and scatter them; send forth thine arrows, and discomfit them:
Julia Smith Translation
Send forth the lightning, and thou wilt scatter them: send thine arrows, and thou wilt destroy them.
King James 2000
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out your arrows, and destroy them.
Modern King James verseion
Cast forth lightning and scatter them; shoot out Your arrows and destroy them.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Cast forth thy lightning, and tear them; shoot out thine arrows, and consume them.
NET Bible
Hurl lightning bolts and scatter them! Shoot your arrows and rout them!
New Heart English Bible
Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them.
The Emphasized Bible
Flash forth lightning, that thou mayest scatter them, Send out thine arrows, that thou mayest confound them:
Webster
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot thy arrows, and destroy them.
World English Bible
Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them.
Youngs Literal Translation
Send forth lightning, and scatter them, Send forth Thine arrows, and trouble them,
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 144:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
A King's Prayer
5 O Yahweh, bow the heavens and come down; touch the mountains so that they smoke. 6 Flash forth lightning and scatter them; dispatch your arrows and rout them. 7 Stretch out your hands from on high; Rescue me and deliver me from many waters, from [the] hand of foreigners,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:23
I will heap disasters upon them; my arrows I will spend on them.
Deuteronomy 32:42
I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain, and captives from the heads of the leaders of [the] enemy.'
2 Samuel 22:12-15
He put darkness [as] a canopy all around him, a collection of {thick rain clouds}.
Psalm 7:12-13
If he does not repent, he will sharpen his sword. He has bent his bow and he has {strung} it.
Psalm 18:13-14
And Yahweh thundered from the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice [with] hail and coals of fire.
Psalm 21:12
For you will {turn them to flight}; you will aim [arrows] on your bowstrings at their faces.
Psalm 45:5
Your arrows [are] sharp; peoples fall under you in the midst of the king's enemies.
Psalm 77:17-18
[The] clouds poured out water. [The] skies {thundered}. Your arrows also {flew about}.