Bow your heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Bow your heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Bow thy heavens, O Jehovah, and come down: Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Come down, O Lord, from your heavens: at your touch let the mountains give out smoke.
Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Part your heavens, Yahweh, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Bow thy heavens - See the note on Psalm 18:9.
Bow thy heavens, O Lord ... - Come to my aid "as if" the heavens were bent down; come down with all thy majesty and glory. See the notes at Psalm 18:9 : "He bowed down the heavens also, and came down." What it is there declared that the Lord "had" done, he is here implored to do again.
Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke - See the notes at Psalm 104:32 : "He toucheth the hills, and they smoke." It is there affirmed as a characteristic of God that he "does" this; here the psalmist prays that, as this belonged to God, or was in his power, he "would" do it in his behalf. The prayer is, that God would come to his relief "as if" in smoke and tempest - in the fury of the storm.
144:5 Come — To help me.
Smoke — As Sinai did at thy glorious appearance, Exodus 19:18. This is a figurative and poetical description of God's coming to take vengeance upon his enemies.