Parallel Verses
World English Bible
Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out 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.
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.
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.
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 Part your heavens, Yahweh, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke. 6 Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them. 7 Stretch out your hand from above, rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hands of foreigners;
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:23
"I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them.
Deuteronomy 32:42
I will make my arrows drunk with blood. My sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy."
2 Samuel 22:12-15
He made darkness pavilions around himself: gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
Psalm 7:12-13
If a man doesn't relent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent and strung his bow.
Psalm 18:13-14
Yahweh also thundered in the sky. The Most High uttered his voice: hailstones and coals of fire.
Psalm 21:12
For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn bows at their face.
Psalm 45:5
Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king's enemies.
Psalm 77:17-18
The clouds poured out water. The skies resounded with thunder. Your arrows also flashed around.