KJV King James Version
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Psalm 144:6
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them.
WEB World English Bible
Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them.
ASV American Standard Version
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; Send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Send forth lightning, and scatter them, Send forth Thine arrows, and trouble them,
Surrounding context — Psalm 144
3 LORD, what [is] man, that thou takest knowledge of him! [or] the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
4 Man is like to vanity: his days [are] as a shadow that passeth away.
5 Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
7 Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;
8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand [is] a right hand of falsehood.
9 I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery [and] an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.
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Cross-references
Deuteronomy 32:23I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.Psalm 18:13-14The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail [stones] and coals of fire.Deuteronomy 32:42I 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.Psalm 21:12Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, [when] thou shalt make ready [thine arrows] upon thy strings against the face of them.2 Samuel 22:12-15And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, [and] thick clouds of the skies.Psalm 45:5Thine arrows [are] sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; [whereby] the people fall under thee.Psalm 7:12-13If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.Psalm 77:17-18The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.
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