Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Send forth lightning, and scatter them, Send forth Thine arrows, and trouble 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.
World English Bible
Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them.
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 144:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
A King's Prayer
5 Jehovah, incline Thy heavens and come down, Strike against mountains, and they smoke. 6 Send forth lightning, and scatter them, Send forth Thine arrows, and trouble them, 7 Send forth Thy hand from on high, Free me, and deliver me from many waters, From the hand of sons of a stranger,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:23
I gather upon them evils, Mine arrows I consume upon them.
Deuteronomy 32:42
I make drunk Mine arrows with blood, And My sword devoureth flesh, From the blood of the pierced and captive, From the head of the freemen of the enemy.
2 Samuel 22:12-15
And He setteth darkness Round about Him -- tabernacles, Darkness of waters -- thick clouds of the skies.
Psalm 7:12-13
If one turn not, His sword he sharpeneth, His bow he hath trodden -- He prepareth it,
Psalm 18:13-14
And thunder in the heavens doth Jehovah, And the Most High giveth forth His voice, Hail and coals of fire.
Psalm 21:12
For Thou makest them a butt, When Thy strings Thou preparest against their faces.
Psalm 45:5
Thine arrows are sharp, -- Peoples fall under Thee -- In the heart of the enemies of the king.
Psalm 77:17-18
Poured out waters have thick clouds, The skies have given forth a noise, Also -- Thine arrows go up and down.