King James Version
Psalms 144:5 in the King James Version says “Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 144 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.”
Psalms 144:5 · KJV
LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children; hand from: Heb. hands from
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“Bow”
H5186to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application (as follows)
“thy heavens”
H8064the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies r
“and come down”
H3381to descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively, to fall); cau
“touch”
H5060properly, to touch, i.e., lay the hand upon (for any purpose; euphemistically, to lie with a woman); by implication, to reach (figuratively, to arrive
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