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Blessed Be the LORD, My Rock

Psalms 144:5

In 11 translations

BSB
Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.
KJV
Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
WEB
Part your heavens, Yahweh, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
ASV
Bow thy heavens, O Jehovah, and come down: Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
LSV
YHWH, incline Your heavens and come down, || Strike against mountains, and they smoke.
YLT
Jehovah, incline Thy heavens and come down, Strike against mountains, and they smoke.
DBY
Jehovah, bow thy heavens, and come down; touch the mountains, that they smoke;
DRC143:5
Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains and they shall smoke.
GNV
Bow thine heauens, O Lord, and come downe: touch the mountaines and they shall smoke.
JPS
O LORD, bow Thy heavens, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.
LXXE143:5
O Lord, bow thy heavens, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

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Original-language editions

WLC
יְ֭הוָה הַט־שָׁמֶ֣יךָ וְתֵרֵ֑ד גַּ֖ע בֶּהָרִ֣ים וְֽיֶעֱשָֽׁנוּ׃
LXX-Br143:5
Κύριε, κλῖνον οὐρανούς σου καὶ κατάβηθι, ἅψαι τῶν ὀρέων καὶ καπνισθήσονται.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 104:32He looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they smolder.
  • Psalms 18:9He parted the heavens and came down with dark clouds beneath His feet.
  • 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.
  • Habakkuk 3:3–6God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His glory covered the heavens, and His praise filled the earth. His radiance was like the sunlight; rays flashed from His hand, where His power is hidden.…
  • Nahum 1:3–6The 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. He rebukes the sea and dries it up;…
  • 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;
  • Isaiah 64:1–2If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence, as fire kindles the brushwood and causes the water to boil, to make Your name known to Your enemies, so that the nations…

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