Psalms 144:6 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 144:6

Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.

KJV

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ASV

Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; Send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.

WEB

Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them.

YLT

Send forth lightning, and scatter them, Send forth Thine arrows, and trouble them,

DBT

Cast forth lightnings, and scatter them; send forth thine arrows, and discomfit them:

About this book

Old Testament

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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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Cross-references

14 verses on the floor

Deuteronomy 32:23
I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
Psalms 18:14
Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
Psalms 18:13–14
The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
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 7:12–13
If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Voices1

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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

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 144:6PSA 21:12 PSA 7:12-13
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 144:6PSA 21:12 PSA 18:40
PSA 144:6DEU 32:23 EZE 5:16
PSA 144:6DEU 32:42 DEU 32:23
PSA 144:6PSA 21:12 PSA 64:7
PSA 144:6DEU 32:23 ISA 24:17-18
PSA 144:6PSA 21:12 LAM 3:12
PSA 144:6DEU 32:42 JER 46:10

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