Psalms 144:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. ”

Psalms 144:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 Psalms 18:9 : “He bowed down the heavens also, and ca...
Psalms 144:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(d) Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. (d) He desires God to continue his graces, and to send help for the present need.
Psalms 144:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

CXLIV. Ascribed by LXX and also by T. to David against Goliath, but without any shadow of reason. Psalms 144:1-11 is really a mosaic chiefly taken from Psalms 18, but also from Psalms 8, 33, 1...
Psalms 144:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

5. O Jehovah! bow thy heavens. After extolling, as was due, the great goodness of God, he requests him to furnish such help for the preservation of the kingdom as was necessary in the present...
Psalms 144:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. Bow thy heavens - See the note on Psalms 18:9 .
Psalms 144:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Bow thy heavens— See 2 Samuel 8 and 2 Samuel 22:10 . The images here are taken from the promulgation of the law on mount Sinai.
Psalms 144:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down - from Psalms 18:9 : cf. Isaiah 64:1 ; borrowed from the same sourc...
Psalms 144:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

This Ps. consists mainly of thoughts and quotations from earlier Pss., e.g. 8 and 18. Psalms 144:12-15 are, however, quite unlike anything else in the Psalter, and some suppose them to be a quotati...
Psalms 144:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Come down. — The theophany for which the psalmist prays is described in the classic language for such manifestations taken from Psalms 18:9 ; Psalms 18:13 ; Psalms 18:16-17 ; Psalms 18:43 ; Ps...
Psalms 144:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 144:1-15 THE force of compilation could no further go than in this psalm, which is, in the first eleven verses ( Psalms 144:1-11 )simply a rechauffe of known psalms, and in Psalms 144:1...
Psalms 144:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

God's People Are Happy Psalms 144:1-15 This psalm savors of the rocky caverns from which David and his men emerged to fight. Each day the chieftain asked God to teach him to fight, and realized...
Psalms 144:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This is a song of triumphant assurance. Its placing at this point in the book suggests the invincible experience of trusting souls. In order to appreciate all its value, the nine psalms immediately p...
Psalms 144:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

In every sense this prayer is striking, and beautiful in whatever sense it be considered; whether as the prayer of the church for the Lord to come down in the power of the Spirit, to bruise Satan, an...
Psalms 144:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down ,.... The heavens, which the Lord has made, and where he dwells; and which are under his influence, and he can cause to incline or bow at his pleasure: and whi...
Psalms 144:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. Ver. 5. Bow thy heavens, O Lord ] Come to my help suddenly and seasonably, as it were out of an engine, εκ της μη...
Psalms 144:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bow thy heavens and come down To help me before it be too late, remembering what a frail and perishing creature I am. “David having celebrated his victories over some of his enemies, and extolled t...
Psalms 144:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Grateful Acknowledgments of Divine Goodness; Prayer for Success against Enemies. A psalm of David. 1 Blessed b...
Psalms 144:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Come down, to help me, before it be too late, remembering what a frail and perishing creature I am. And they shall smoke; or, that they may smoke; or, and let them smoke, as Sinai did at thy glor...
Psalms 144:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION “This is a singularly composite Psalm. The earlier portion of it, to the end of Psalms 144:11 , consists almost entirely of a cento of quotations, strung together from earlier Psalms;...
Psalms 144:5 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

A Psalm of David. No doubt written after some great victory, and also before another severe struggle. The Christian man seldom escapes from one difficulty without falling into another. Thanks be unto...
Psalms 144:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

This, and the six following psalms, are all eucharistical, and seem to have been composed when David's sorrows were changed to joys. He here praises God for past mercies, and asks grace for the futur...
Psalms 144:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight. The Lord teaching us to fight I do not know what that “Book of the Wars of the Lord” was which is refer...
Psalms 144:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION A PSALM in which praise and prayer are commingled. Almost certainly Davidic: 1. From the title. 2. From the style. 3. From the way in which David is mentioned in Psalms...
Psalms 144:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Thanksgiving and Prayer for Deliverance. A psalm of David, in which he praises God for help experienced in the past and confidently implores His assistance against the enemies of the nation, as we...
Psalms 144:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 19:18 ; Habakkuk 3:3-6 ; Hebrews 12:18 ; Isaiah 64:1 ; Isaiah 64:2 ; Nahum 1:3-6 ; Psalms 18:9 ; Psalms 104:32
Psalms 144:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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.

Psalms 144:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 144:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 144:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 144:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 144:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 144:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Psalms 144:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 144:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 144:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 144:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 144:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 144:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 144:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 144:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 144:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 144:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 144:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 144:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 144:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 144:5 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 144:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 144:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 144:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 144:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 144:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 144:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes