Psalms 144:5
Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Context
This verse from Psalms Chapter 144 connects to 10 cross-references. A psalm of David combining earlier psalms, praising the Lord as rock, fortress, and deliverer who trains hands for battle. David reflects on human transience — like a breath — and prays for divine rescue. The psalm ends with a …
Other Translations
Bow thy heavens, O Jehovah, and come down: Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Jehovah, incline Thy heavens and come down, Strike against mountains, and they smoke.
Come down, O Lord, from your heavens: at your touch let the mountains give out smoke.
Cross References
And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof …
As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine …
Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy …
He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the …
God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth …
He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke.
He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured …
The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord …
For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, …