Psalm 144:5 {143:5}
Good News Translation
O LORD, tear the sky open and come down; touch the mountains, and they will pour out smoke.

New Revised Standard Version
Bow your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains so that they smoke.

Contemporary English Version
Open the heavens like a curtain and come down, LORD. Touch the mountains and make them send up smoke.

New American Bible
LORD, incline your heavens and come down; touch the mountains and make them smoke.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

bow

Psalm 18:9 He bowed the heavens, and came down, and darkness was under his feet.

Isaiah 64:1,2 O that thou wouldst rend the heavens, and wouldst come down: the mountains would melt away at thy presence. . . .

touch

Psalm 104:32 He looketh upon the earth, and maketh it tremble: he troubleth the mountains, and they smoke.

Exodus 19:18 And all Mount Sinai was on a smoke: because the Lord was come down upon it in fire, and the smoke arose from it as out of a furnace: and all the mount was terrible.

Nahum 1:3-6 The Lord is patient, and great in power, and will not cleanse and acquit the guilty. The Lord's ways are in a tempest, and a whirlwind, and clouds are the dust of his feet. . . .

Habakkuk 3:3-6 God will come from the south, and the holy one from mount Pharan: His glory covered the heavens, and the earth is full of his praise. . . .

Hebrews 12:18 For you are not come to a mountain that might be touched and a burning fire and a whirlwind and darkness and storm,

Context
Blessed Be the LORD, My Rock
4Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow. 5Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.6Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them.…
Cross References
Exodus 19:18
And all Mount Sinai was on a smoke: because the Lord was come down upon it in fire, and the smoke arose from it as out of a furnace: and all the mount was terrible.

Psalm 8:3
For I will behold thy heavens, the works of thy fingers: the moon and the stars which thou hast founded.

Psalm 18:9
He bowed the heavens, and came down, and darkness was under his feet.

Psalm 57:3
He hath sent from heaven and delivered me: he hath made them a reproach that trod upon me. God hath sent his mercy and his truth,

Psalm 104:32
He looketh upon the earth, and maketh it tremble: he troubleth the mountains, and they smoke.

Isaiah 64:1
O that thou wouldst rend the heavens, and wouldst come down: the mountains would melt away at thy presence.

Amos 9:5
And if they go into captivity before their enemies, there will I command the sword, and it shall kill them. And I will set my eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.

Psalm 144:4
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