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Psalm 144

Psa. 144:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Bow
natah (Hebrew #5186)
to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application (as follows)
KJV usage: + afternoon, apply, bow (down, - ing), carry aside, decline, deliver, extend, go down, be gone, incline, intend, lay, let down, offer, outstretched, overthrown, pervert, pitch, prolong, put away, shew, spread (out), stretch (forth, out), take (aside), turn (aside, away), wrest, cause to yield.
Pronounce: naw-taw'
Origin: a primitive root
f thy heavens
shamayim (Hebrew #8064)
from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the 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 revolve)
KJV usage: air, X astrologer, heaven(-s).
Pronounce: shaw-mah'-yim
Origin: dual of an unused singular shameh {shaw-meh'}
, O Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
, and come down
yarad (Hebrew #3381)
a primitive root; to descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively, to fall); causatively, to bring down (in all the above applications): --X abundantly, bring down, carry down, cast down, (cause to) come(-ing) down, fall (down), get down, go(-ing) down(-ward), hang down, X indeed, let down, light (down), put down (off), (cause to, let) run down, sink, subdue, take down.
Pronounce: yaw-rad'
: touch
naga` (Hebrew #5060)
properly, to touch, i.e. lay the hand upon (for any purpose; euphem., to lie with a woman); by implication, to reach (figuratively, to arrive, acquire); violently, to strike (punish, defeat, destroy, etc.)
KJV usage: beat, (X be able to) bring (down), cast, come (nigh), draw near (nigh), get up, happen, join, near, plague, reach (up), smite, strike, touch.
Pronounce: naw-gah'
Origin: a primitive root
the mountains
har (Hebrew #2022)
a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)
KJV usage: hill (country), mount(-ain), X promotion.
Pronounce: har
Origin: a shortened form of 2042
, and they shall smoke
`ashan (Hebrew #6225)
to smoke, whether literal or figurative
KJV usage: be angry (be on a) smoke.
Pronounce: aw-shan'
Origin: a primitive root
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Isa. 64:1• 1Oh, that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down,--that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, (Isa. 64:1)

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Ministry on This Verse

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Bow.
Psa. 18:9• 9And he bowed the heavens, and came down; and darkness was under his feet. (Psa. 18:9)
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Isa. 64:1‑2• 1Oh, that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down,--that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
 2--as fire kindleth brushwood, as the fire causeth water to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations might tremble at thy presence! (Isa. 64:1‑2)
touch.
Psa. 104:32• 32He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth; he toucheth the mountains, and they smoke. (Psa. 104:32)
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Ex. 19:18• 18And the whole of mount Sinai smoked, because Jehovah descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended as the smoke of a furnace; and the whole mountain shook greatly. (Ex. 19:18)
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Nah. 1:3‑6• 3Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power, and doth not at all clear the guilty: Jehovah,--his way is in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
 4He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
 5The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt, and the earth is upheaved at his presence, and the world, and all that dwell therein.
 6Who shall stand before his indignation? and who shall abide in the fierceness of his anger? His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken asunder by him. (Nah. 1:3‑6)
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Hab. 3:3‑6• 3+God came from Teman, And the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covereth the heavens, And the earth is full of his praise.
 4And his brightness was as the light; Rays came forth from his hand; And there was the hiding of his power.
 5Before him went the pestilence, And a burning flame went forth at his feet.
 6He stood, and measured the earth; He beheld, and discomfited the nations; And the eternal mountains were scattered, The everlasting hills gave way: His ways are everlasting. (Hab. 3:3‑6)
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Heb. 12:18• 18For ye have not come to the mount that might be touched and was all on fire, and to obscurity, and darkness, and tempest, (Heb. 12:18)
• (vv. 5-8) Seeing the greatness of the Lord and the frailty of man, who dares to exalt himself against God, why should the judgment be delayed? Hence the psalmist beseeches the Lord to intervene in judgment upon the enemies of His people, and thus bring the godly out of their deep distress—the “great waters,” and deliver them from the power of strangers who are marked by corruption. (“Psalms 144” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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