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New King James Version

Psalms 144:6

Flash forth lightning and scatter them; Shoot out Your arrows and destroy them.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Arrow;   Lightning;   Prayer;   Thompson Chain Reference - Arrows;   God;   God's;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Arrows;   Lightning;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Arrow;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Flash your lightning and scatter the foe;shoot your arrows and rout them.
Hebrew Names Version
Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them.
King James Version
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
English Standard Version
Flash forth the lightning and scatter them; send out your arrows and rout them!
New Century Version
Send the lightning and scatter my enemies. Shoot your arrows and force them away.
New English Translation
Hurl lightning bolts and scatter them! Shoot your arrows and rout them!
Amplified Bible
Flash lightning and scatter my enemies; Send out Your arrows and confuse and embarrass and frustrate them.
New American Standard Bible
Flash forth lightning and scatter them; Send out Your arrows and confuse them.
World English Bible
Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Cast forth the lightning & scatter them: shoote out thine arrowes, and consume them.
Legacy Standard Bible
Flash forth lightning and scatter them;Send out Your arrows and confuse them.
Berean Standard Bible
Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them.
Contemporary English Version
Use your lightning as arrows to scatter my enemies and make them run away.
Complete Jewish Bible
Shoot out lightning, and scatter them; send out your arrows, and rout them.
Darby Translation
Cast forth lightnings, and scatter them; send forth thine arrows, and discomfit them:
Easy-to-Read Version
Send the lightning and make my enemies run away. Shoot your "arrows" and make them run away.
George Lamsa Translation
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
Good News Translation
Send flashes of lightning and scatter your enemies; shoot your arrows and send them running.
Lexham English Bible
Flash forth lightning and scatter them; dispatch your arrows and rout them.
Literal Translation
Flash out lightning and scatter them; send out Your arrows and confound them.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Sende forth the lightenynge & scater the, shute out thine arowes and consume them.
American Standard Version
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; Send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.
Bible in Basic English
With your storm-flames send them in flight: send out your arrows for their destruction.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; send out Thine arrows, and discomfit them.
King James Version (1611)
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoote out thine arrowes, and destroy them.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Cast out terrible lightninges and feare them: shoote out thyne arrowes and consume them.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Send lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: send forth thine arrows, and thou shalt discomfit them.
English Revised Version
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Leite thou schynyng, and thou schalt scatere hem; sende thou out thin arowis, and thou schalt disturble hem.
Update Bible Version
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; Send out your arrows, and discomfit them.
Webster's Bible Translation
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot thy arrows, and destroy them.
New Living Translation
Hurl your lightning bolts and scatter your enemies! Shoot your arrows and confuse them!
New Life Bible
Send out lightning and divide them. Send out Your arrows and trouble them.
New Revised Standard
Make the lightning flash and scatter them; send out your arrows and rout them.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Flash forth lightning, that thou mayest scatter them, Send out thine arrows, that thou mayest confound them:
Douay-Rheims Bible
(143-6) Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them.
Revised Standard Version
Flash forth the lightning and scatter them, send out thy arrows and rout them!
Young's Literal Translation
Send forth lightning, and scatter them, Send forth Thine arrows, and trouble them,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Flash forth lightning and scatter them; Send out Your arrows and confuse them.

Contextual Overview

1 Blessed be the LORD my Rock, Who trains my hands for war, And my fingers for battle-- 2 My lovingkindness and my fortress,My high tower and my deliverer,My shield and the One in whom I take refuge,Who subdues my people Psalms 18:47).">[fn] under me. 3 LORD, what is man, that You take knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that You are mindful of him? 4 Man is like a breath; His days are like a passing shadow. 5 Bow down Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. 6 Flash forth lightning and scatter them; Shoot out Your arrows and destroy them. 7 Stretch out Your hand from above; Rescue me and deliver me out of great waters, From the hand of foreigners, 8 Whose mouth speaks lying words, And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cast forth: Psalms 18:13, Psalms 18:14, Psalms 77:17, Psalms 77:18, 2 Samuel 22:12-15

shoot out: Psalms 7:12, Psalms 21:12, Psalms 45:5, Deuteronomy 32:23, Deuteronomy 32:42

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 22:15 - arrows Job 40:11 - Cast Psalms 5:10 - let Psalms 7:13 - ordaineth Psalms 18:8 - went Psalms 29:7 - flames Psalms 89:10 - scattered Psalms 97:4 - His Isaiah 64:1 - Oh that Habakkuk 3:11 - at the light of thine arrows they went Zechariah 9:14 - his

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Cast forth lightning, and scatter them,.... The mountains, the kings and kingdoms of the earth; the enemies of David, and of Christ, and of his people; particularly the Jews, who have been scattered all over the earth by the judgments of God upon them; cast forth like lightning, which is swift, piercing, penetrating, and destructive;

shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them; or, "trouble them" k; as the Targum, Septuagint, and Arabic versions, nearer to the Hebrew: these also design the sore judgments of God, the arrows of famine, pestilence, and sword; which fly swiftly, pierce deeply, cut sharply, and, like fiery darts, give great pain and trouble. So Kimchi and Ben Melech interpret them of the decrees which come down from heaven, as Aben Ezra does Psalms 144:5: by "lightning" Arama understands the flame of fire which comes out with thunder; and by "arrows" the thunderbolt, which he calls a stone hardened in the air like iron.

k ותהמם "ac turba eos", Tigurine version; "et conturba eos", Cocceius, Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Cast forth lightnings, and scatter them - See the notes at Psalms 18:14 : “He sent out his arrows, and scattered them.” The allusion there is to lightning. The psalmist prays that; God would do now again what he had then done. The Hebrew here is, “Lighten lightning;” that is, Send forth lightning. The word is used as a verb nowhere else.

Shoot out thine arrows ... - So in Psalms 18:14 : “He shot out lightnings.” The words are the same here as in that psalm, only that they are arranged differently. See the notes at that place.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 144:6. Cast forth lightningPsalms 18:13; "Psalms 18:14".


 
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