Parallel Verses
Amplified
Flash lightning and scatter my enemies;
Send out Your arrows and confuse and embarrass and frustrate them.
New American Standard Bible
Send out Your
King James Version
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
Holman Bible
shoot Your arrows and rout them.
International Standard Version
Send forth lightning and scatter the enemy, shoot your arrows and confuse them.
A Conservative Version
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them. Send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.
American Standard Version
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; Send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.
Darby Translation
Cast forth lightnings, and scatter them; send forth thine arrows, and discomfit them:
Julia Smith Translation
Send forth the lightning, and thou wilt scatter them: send thine arrows, and thou wilt destroy them.
King James 2000
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out your arrows, and destroy them.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Flash forth lightning and scatter them; dispatch your arrows and rout them.
Modern King James verseion
Cast forth lightning and scatter them; shoot out Your arrows and destroy them.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Cast forth thy lightning, and tear them; shoot out thine arrows, and consume them.
NET Bible
Hurl lightning bolts and scatter them! Shoot your arrows and rout them!
New Heart English Bible
Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them.
The Emphasized Bible
Flash forth lightning, that thou mayest scatter them, Send out thine arrows, that thou mayest confound them:
Webster
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot thy arrows, and destroy them.
World English Bible
Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them.
Youngs Literal Translation
Send forth lightning, and scatter them, Send forth Thine arrows, and trouble them,
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 144:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
A King's Prayer
5
Bow Your heavens, O Lord, and come down;
Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
Flash lightning and scatter my enemies;
Send out Your arrows and confuse and embarrass and frustrate them.
Stretch out Your hand from above;
Set me free and rescue me from great waters,
Out of the hands of [hostile] foreigners [who surround us]
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:23
‘I will heap misfortunes on them;
I will use My arrows on them.
Deuteronomy 32:42
‘I will make My arrows drunk with blood,
And My sword will devour flesh,
With the blood of the slain and the captives,
From the heads of the leaders of the enemy.’
2 Samuel 22:12-15
“He made darkness
A mass of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
Psalm 7:12-13
If a man does not repent, God will sharpen His sword;
He has strung and bent His [mighty] bow and made it ready.
Psalm 18:13-14
The Lord also thundered in the heavens,
And the Most High uttered His voice,
Hailstones and coals of fire.
Psalm 21:12
For You will make them turn their backs [in defeat];
You will aim Your bowstring [of divine justice] at their faces.
Psalm 45:5
Your arrows are sharp;
The peoples (nations) fall under You;
Your arrows pierce the hearts of the King’s enemies.
Psalm 77:17-18
The clouds poured down water;
The skies sent out a sound [of rumbling thunder];
Your arrows (lightning) flashed here and there.