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Psalms 144:5
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Lord, part your heavens and come down.Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
Part your heavens, LORD, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
Bow thy heavens, O Lord , and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Bow your heavens, O Lord , and come down! Touch the mountains so that they smoke!
Lord , tear open the sky and come down. Touch the mountains so they will smoke.
O Lord , make the sky sink and come down! Touch the mountains and make them smolder!
Bow Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
Bend down Your heavens, LORD, and come down; Touch the mountains, that they may smoke.
Part your heavens, Yahweh, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
Bow thine heauens, O Lorde, and come downe: touch the mountaines & they shal smoke.
O Yahweh, bow Your heavens, and come down;Touch the mountains, that they may smoke.
Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.
Open the heavens like a curtain and come down, Lord . Touch the mountains and make them send up smoke.
Adonai , lower the heavens, and come down; touch the mountains, make them pour out smoke.
Jehovah, bow thy heavens, and come down; touch the mountains, that they smoke;
Lord , tear open the skies and come down. Touch the mountains, and smoke will rise from them.
Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down; rebuke the mountains, and they shall smoke.
O Lord , tear the sky open and come down; touch the mountains, and they will pour out smoke.
O Yahweh, bow the heavens and come down; touch the mountains so that they smoke.
Bow down Your heavens, O Jehovah; and come down; touch the mountains and they shall smoke.
Bowe thy heaues (o LORDE) & come downe, touch the mountaynes, yt they maye smoke withall.
Bow thy heavens, O Jehovah, and come down: Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Come down, O Lord, from your heavens: at your touch let the mountains give out smoke.
O LORD, bow Thy heavens, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.
Bow thy heauens, O Lord, and come downe: touch the mountaines, and they shall smoke.
Bowe thy heauens O God and come downe: touche the mountaynes and they shall smoke.
O Lord, bow thy heavens, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Lord, bowe doun thin heuenes, and come thou doun; touche thou hillis, and thei schulen make smoke.
Bow your heavens, O Yahweh, and come down: Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Open the heavens, Lord , and come down. Touch the mountains so they billow smoke.
O Lord, divide Your heavens and come down. Touch the mountains so they will smoke.
Bow your heavens, O Lord , and come down; touch the mountains so that they smoke.
O Yahweh! bow thy heavens and come down, Touch the mountains, that they smoke:
(143-5) Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down! Touch the mountains that they smoke!
Jehovah, incline Thy heavens and come down, Strike against mountains, and they smoke.
Step down out of heaven, God ; ignite volcanoes in the hearts of the mountains. Hurl your lightnings in every direction; shoot your arrows this way and that. Reach all the way from sky to sea: pull me out of the ocean of hate, out of the grip of those barbarians Who lie through their teeth, who shake your hand then knife you in the back.
Bow Your heavens, O Lord , and come down; Touch the mountains, that they may smoke.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Bow: Psalms 18:9, Isaiah 64:1, Isaiah 64:2
touch: Psalms 104:32, Exodus 19:18, Nahum 1:3-6, Habakkuk 3:3-6, Hebrews 12:18
Reciprocal: Exodus 19:11 - the Lord Deuteronomy 32:22 - foundations 2 Samuel 22:10 - bowed Psalms 18:8 - went Psalms 29:7 - flames Psalms 57:3 - send Psalms 97:4 - His Psalms 108:6 - save Psalms 115:16 - heaven Amos 9:5 - toucheth Habakkuk 3:11 - at the light of thine arrows they went Zechariah 9:14 - his Acts 7:34 - and am
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down,.... The heavens, which the Lord has made, and where he dwells; and which are under his influence, and he can cause to incline or bow at his pleasure: and which literally may be said to bow, particularly the airy heavens, when these are filled with clouds heavy with rain, and hang low, ready to fall upon the earth, and being rent, let down showers on it: and mystically may design storms of wrath gathering over the heads of ungodly men, and revealed from heaven against them. Or rather, as connected with the phrase, "and come down", denotes some appearance or manifestation of God; either for the help and assistance of his people; or in a way of vengeance against their enemies; or both: and which descent must be understood in consistence with the omnipresence of God; and supposes his habitation to be on high, and is expressive of regard to the persons and affairs of men on earth; and is by some considered as a prayer for the incarnation of Christ, which is sometimes signified by coming down from heaven; not by change of place, nor by bringing an human nature, soul or body, down with him from heaven; but by the assumption of our nature; and which was greatly wished, prayed, and longed for, by the Old Testament saints The Targum is,
"O Lord, bow the heavens, and manifest thyself;''
see Psalms 18:9;
touch the mountains, and they shall smoke; as Mount Sinai did when the Lord descended on it, Exodus 19:18; see Psalms 104:32; These, according to Kimchi, signify mighty kings, strong as mountains: so kingdoms are sometimes called; as the Babylonian empire is called a mountain, a destroying and burnt mountain, Zechariah 4:7. Such kings and kingdoms rose up like mountains against Christ, when here incarnate; and against his Gospel, and the ministry of it by his apostles; as the kingdom and nation of the Jews, and the whole Pagan empire: but these, by a touch of his almighty power, have vanished into smoke, Psalms 2:1 Revelation 8:8.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Bow thy heavens, O Lord ... - Come to my aid “as if” the heavens were bent down; come down with all thy majesty and glory. See the notes at Psalms 18:9 : “He bowed down the heavens also, and came down.” What it is there declared that the Lord “had” done, he is here implored to do again.
Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke - See the notes at Psalms 104:32 : “He toucheth the hills, and they smoke.” It is there affirmed as a characteristic of God that he “does” this; here the psalmist prays that, as this belonged to God, or was in his power, he “would” do it in his behalf. The prayer is, that God would come to his relief “as if” in smoke and tempest - in the fury of the storm.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 144:5. Bow thy heavens — Psalms 18:9.
