Psalms 144:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Bow thy heavens, O Jehovah, and come down: Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יְ֭הוָה הַט־שָׁמֶ֣יךָ וְתֵרֵ֑ד גַּ֖ע בֶּהָרִ֣ים וְֽיֶעֱשָֽׁנוּ׃

Transliteration

YHWH, haṭ your šāmeykā and wĕtērēd, gaʿ in the behārîm and wĕyeʿĕšānû.

Grammar Details

*YHWH*: divine name - Yahweh/the LORD
*haṭ*: Hiphil imperative, masculine singular - bend/bow down
*šāmeykā*: noun masculine plural + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your heavens
*wĕtērēd*: conjunction + Qal imperfect 2nd masculine singular jussive - and come down
*gaʿ*: Qal imperative, masculine singular - touch
*behārîm*: preposition + definite article + noun masculine plural - in the mountains
*wĕyeʿĕšānû*: conjunction + Qal imperfect 3rd masculine plural - and they will smoke

Word Meanings

*haṭ*: bow down/bend/stretch out
*wĕtērēd*: and come down/descend
*gaʿ*: touch/strike
*wĕyeʿĕšānû*: and they will smoke/emit smoke/be in smoke

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 18:9 : 9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down; And thick darkness was under his feet.
Ps 104:32 : 32 Who looketh on the earth, and it trembleth; He toucheth the mountains, and they smoke.
Isa 64:1-2 : 1 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might quake at thy presence, 2 as when fire kindleth the brushwood, [and] the fire causeth the waters to boil; to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!
Nah 1:3-6 : 3 Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means clear [the guilty]: Jehovah hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. 4 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languisheth. 5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt; and the earth is upheaved at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. 6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken asunder by him.
Hab 3:3-6 : 3 God came from Teman, And the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, And the earth was full of his praise. 4 And [his] brightness was as the light; He had rays [coming forth] from his hand; And there was the hiding of his power. 5 Before him went the pestilence, And fiery bolts went forth at his feet. 6 He stood, and measured the earth; He beheld, and drove asunder the nations; And the eternal mountains were scattered; The everlasting hills did bow; His goings were [as] of old.
Heb 12:18 : 18 For ye are not come unto [a mount] that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
Exod 19:18 : 18 And mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because Jehovah descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

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