Psalms 144:5 · KJV
“Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.”
— Psalms 144:5
Man is like to vanity: his days {are} as a shadow that passeth away.
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
Psalms 144 — Context
LORD, what {is} man, that thou takest knowledge of him! {or} the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
4Man is like to vanity: his days {are} as a shadow that passeth away.
5Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
6Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
7Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children; {hand from: Heb. hands from}
Cross References
Psalms 104:32
He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke.
Psalms 18:9
He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness {was} under his feet.
Habakkuk 3:3-6
God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. {Teman: or, the south}
Exodus 19:18
And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
Hebrews 12:18
For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
Isaiah 64:1-2
Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
Nahum 1:3-6
The LORD {is} slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit {the wicked}: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds {are} the dust of his feet.