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Psalms 144:5
Psalms 144:5 is verse 5 of Psalms chapter 144, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.
King James Version
Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
World English Bible
Part your heavens, Yahweh, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
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Psalms 144:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible
3 O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?
4 Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
5 Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.
6 Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them.
7 Reach down from on high; set me free and rescue me from the deep waters, from the grasp of foreigners,
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 18:9He parted the heavens and came down with dark clouds beneath His feet.
Isaiah 64:1If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,
Isaiah 64:2as fire kindles the brushwood and causes the water to boil, to make Your name known to Your enemies, so that the nations will tremble at Your presence!
Psalms 104:32He looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they smolder.
Exodus 19:18Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke, because the LORD had descended on it in fire. And the smoke rose like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.
Nahum 1:3The LORD is slow to anger and great in power; the LORD will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and clouds are the dust beneath His feet.
Nahum 1:4He rebukes the sea and dries it up; He makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither, and the flower of Lebanon wilts.
Nahum 1:5The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence— the world and all its dwellers.
Nahum 1:6Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.
Habakkuk 3:3God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His glory covered the heavens, and His praise filled the earth.
Habakkuk 3:4His radiance was like the sunlight; rays flashed from His hand, where His power is hidden.
Habakkuk 3:5Plague went before Him, and fever followed in His steps.
Habakkuk 3:6He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations; the ancient mountains crumbled; the perpetual hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting.
Hebrews 12:18For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom, and storm;