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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.

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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 18:9

He parted the heavens and came down with dark clouds beneath His feet.

Isaiah 64:1

If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,

Isaiah 64:2

as 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 104:32

He looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they smolder.

Exodus 19:18

Mount 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 1:3

The 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 1:4

He 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 1:5

The mountains quake before Him, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles at His presence— the world and all its dwellers.

Nahum 1:6

Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.

Habakkuk 3:3

God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His glory covered the heavens, and His praise filled the earth.

Habakkuk 3:4

His radiance was like the sunlight; rays flashed from His hand, where His power is hidden.

Habakkuk 3:5

Plague went before Him, and fever followed in His steps.

Habakkuk 3:6

He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations; the ancient mountains crumbled; the perpetual hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting.

Hebrews 12:18

For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom, and storm;

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