Psalms 144:5 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 144:5

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

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ASV

Bow thy heavens, O Jehovah, and come down: Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

WEB

Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.

YLT

Jehovah, incline Thy heavens and come down, Strike against mountains, and they smoke.

DBT

Jehovah, bow thy heavens, and come down; touch the mountains, that they smoke;

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Psalms 57:3
He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.
Psalms 18:9
He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
Psalms 104:32
He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke.
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
Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,

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That he would appear against his enemies, that he would fight from heaven against them, as sometimes he had done, by lightnings, which are his arrows (his fiery darts, against which the hardest steel is no armour of proof, so penetrating is the force of lightning), that he himself would shoot these arrows, who, we are sure, never misses his mark, but hits where he aims.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

He does not specify who they were that he was in fear of, but says, Scatter them, destroy them. God knew whom he meant, though he did not name them. But afterwards he describes them (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Smoke - As Sinai did at thy glorious appearance, Exod. xix, 18. This is a figurative and poetical description of God's coming to take vengeance upon his enemies.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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