Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Cast forth thy lightning, and tear them; shoot out thine arrows, and consume 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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Flash forth lightning and scatter them; dispatch your arrows and rout them.
Modern King James verseion
Cast forth lightning and scatter them; shoot out Your arrows and destroy 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 Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke withal. 6 Cast forth thy lightning, and tear them; shoot out thine arrows, and consume them. 7 Send down thine hand from above; deliver me, and take me out of the greatwaters, from the hand of strange children,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:23
I will heap mischiefs upon them and will spend all mine arrows at them.
Deuteronomy 32:42
I will make mine arrows drunken with blood, and my sword shall eat flesh of the blood of the slain and of the captive and of the bare head of the enemy.'
2 Samuel 22:12-15
And he made darkness a tabernacle round about him, with water gathered together in thick clouds.
Psalm 7:12-13
If a man will not turn, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow and made it ready.
Psalm 18:13-14
The LORD also thundered out of the heaven, and the highest gave his thunder, with hailstones and coals of fire. {TYNDALE: The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most high put out his voice.}
Psalm 21:12
Therefore shalt thou put them to flight, and the strings of thy bow shalt thou make ready against the face of them.
Psalm 45:5
Thy arrows are sharp, and the people shall be subdued unto thee, even in the midst among the king's enemies.
Psalm 77:17-18
The thick clouds poured out water, the air thundered, and thine arrows went abroad.