Psalms 144:6
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
Psalms 144:6 in other translations
| BSB | Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them. |
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| WEB | Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them. |
| ASV | Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; Send out thine arrows, and discomfit them. |
| YLT | Send forth lightning, and scatter them, Send forth Thine arrows, and trouble them, |
| DARBY | Cast forth lightnings, and scatter them; send forth thine arrows, and discomfit them: |
| BBE | With your storm-flames send them in flight: send out your arrows for their destruction. |
| Webster | Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot thy arrows, and destroy them. |
What does Psalms 144:6 mean?
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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…
Psalms 144:6 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 144:6
- Deuteronomy 32:23
I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
- Psalms 18:13-14
The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire. Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
- Deuteronomy 32:42
I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
- Psalms 21:12
Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
- Psalms 45:5
Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
- Psalms 7:12-13
If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready. He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
- 2 Samuel 22:12-15
And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies. Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled. The Lord thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice. And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.
- Psalms 77:17-18
The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad. The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
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Context
- 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.
- Psalms 144:7
Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;
Psalms 144:6 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Despide relámpagos, y disípalos; envía tus saetas, y contúrbalos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Fais briller l’éclair et disperse-les; lance tes flèches et mets-les en déroute. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Blitze mit Blitzen und zerstreue sie; schieße deine Pfeile und verwirre sie! |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et virtutem terribilium tuorum dicent, et magnitudinem tuam narrabunt. |