Psalms 144 · Verse 5

Psalms 144:5

Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Psalms 144:5, King James Version

Psalms 144:5 in other translations

BSBPart Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.
WEBPart your heavens, LORD, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
ASVBow thy heavens, O Jehovah, and come down: Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
YLTJehovah, incline Thy heavens and come down, Strike against mountains, and they smoke.
DARBYJehovah, bow thy heavens, and come down; touch the mountains, that they smoke;
BBECome down, O Lord, from your heavens: at your touch let the mountains give out smoke.
WebsterBow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

What does Psalms 144:5 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 5 Bow thy heavens - See the note on Psa 18:9.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 144:1-8

When men become eminent for things as to which they have had few advantages, they should be more deeply sensible that God has been their Teacher. Happy those to whom the Lord gives that noblest victory, conquest and dominion over their own spirits. A prayer for further mercy is fitly begun with a thanksgiving for former mercy. There was a special power of God, inclining the people of Israel to be subject to David…

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Psalms 144:5 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

יְ֭הוָהYah.wehO YahwehH3068
הַט\־hat-bend downH5186
שָׁמֶ֣יךָsha.Mei.khaheavens yourH8064
וְתֵרֵ֑דve.te.Redso you may come downH3381
גַּ֖עga'touchH5060
בֶּהָרִ֣יםbe.ha.Rim<in> the mountainsH2022
וְֽיֶעֱשָֽׁנוּ\׃Ve.ye.'e.Sha.nuso they may smokeH6225

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 144:5

  • 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. And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power. Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet. He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.

  • 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.

  • 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, As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!

  • 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,

  • 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. He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth. The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Bow.
18:9; Isa 64:1,2
touch.
104:32; Ex 19:18; Na 1:3-6; Hab 3:3-6; Heb 12:18

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Psalms 144:4

    Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

  • Psalms 144:5

    Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

  • Psalms 144:6

    Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.

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Psalms 144:5 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Oh Jehová, inclina tus cielos y desciende: toca los montes, y humeen.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Éternel! abaisse tes cieux et descends; touche les montagnes, et elles fumeront.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Jehova, neige deine Himmel und fahre hernieder; rühre die Berge an, daß sie rauchen!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Magnificentiam gloriæ sanctitatis tuæ loquentur, et mirabilia tua narrabunt.