Psalms 144:5

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

Related Commentaries of 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 Psal...
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 f...
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 t...
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 preservat...
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 .
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.
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...
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...
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 ; Psa...
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...
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 chief...
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 appre...
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 do...
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 ca...
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...
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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Grateful Acknowledgments of Divine Goodness; Prayer for Success against Enemies....
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...
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...
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 diffi...
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...
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...
The Biblical Illustrator

Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. The kindling of the heart It must be striking indeed to any one living in the neighbourhood of a cha...
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. Fr...
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 a...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Bow Thy heavens, O Lord, bringing them nearer, as it were, for speedy help, and come down, manifesting His almighty power; touch the mountains, w...
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 t...

⁵ Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 144:5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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