Psalms 144:5

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

O LORD, make the sky sink and come down! Touch the mountains and make them smolder!

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 18:9 : 9 He made the sky sink as he descended; a thick cloud was under his feet.
  • Ps 104:32 : 32 He looks down on the earth and it shakes; he touches the mountains and they start to smolder.
  • Isa 64:1-2 : 1 (63:19b) If only you would tear apart the sky and come down! The mountains would tremble before you! 2 (64:1) As when fire ignites dry wood, or fire makes water boil, let your adversaries know who you are, and may the nations shake at your presence!
  • Nah 1:3-6 : 3 The LORD is slow to anger but great in power; the LORD will certainly not allow the wicked to go unpunished.The Divine Warrior Destroys His Enemies but Protects His People He marches out in the whirlwind and the raging storm; dark storm clouds billow like dust under his feet. 4 He shouts a battle cry against the sea and makes it dry up; he makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither; the blossom of Lebanon withers. 5 The mountains tremble before him, the hills convulse; the earth is laid waste before him, the world and all its inhabitants are laid waste. 6 No one can withstand his indignation! No one can resist his fierce anger! His wrath is poured out like volcanic fire, boulders are broken up as he approaches.
  • Hab 3:3-6 : 3 God comes from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His splendor has covered the skies, the earth is full of his glory. 4 His brightness will be as lightning; a two-pronged lightning bolt flashing from his hand. This is the outward display of his power. 5 Plague will go before him; pestilence will march right behind him. 6 He took his battle position and shook the earth; with a mere look he frightened the nations. The ancient mountains disintegrated; the primeval hills were flattened. His are ancient roads.
  • Heb 12:18 : 18 For you have not come to something that can be touched, to a burning fire and darkness and gloom and a whirlwind
  • Exod 19:18 : 18 Now Mount Sinai was completely covered with smoke because the LORD had descended on it in fire, and its smoke went up like the smoke of a great furnace, and the whole mountain shook violently.

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    1(63:19b) If only you would tear apart the sky and come down! The mountains would tremble before you!

    2(64:1) As when fire ignites dry wood, or fire makes water boil, let your adversaries know who you are, and may the nations shake at your presence!

    3When you performed awesome deeds that took us by surprise, you came down, and the mountains trembled before you.

  • Ps 144:6
    79%

    6Hurl lightning bolts and scatter them! Shoot your arrows and rout them!

  • Ps 104:32
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    32He looks down on the earth and it shakes; he touches the mountains and they start to smolder.

  • 2 Sam 22:8-10
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    77%

    8The earth heaved and shook; the foundations of the sky trembled. They heaved because he was angry.

    9Smoke ascended from his nose; fire devoured as it came from his mouth; he hurled down fiery coals.

    10He made the sky sink as he descended; a thick cloud was under his feet.

  • Ps 18:7-9
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    77%

    7The earth heaved and shook; the roots of the mountains trembled; they heaved because he was angry.

    8Smoke ascended from his nose; fire devoured as it came from his mouth; he hurled down fiery coals.

    9He made the sky sink as he descended; a thick cloud was under his feet.

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    4His lightning bolts light up the world; the earth sees and trembles.

    5The mountains melt like wax before the LORD, before the Lord of the whole earth.

  • Mic 1:3-4
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    76%

    3Look, the LORD is coming out of his dwelling place! He will descend and march on the earth’s mountaintops!

    4The mountains will crumble beneath him; and the valleys will split apart, like wax before a fire, like water dumped down a steep slope.

  • Nah 1:5-6
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    5The mountains tremble before him, the hills convulse; the earth is laid waste before him, the world and all its inhabitants are laid waste.

    6No one can withstand his indignation! No one can resist his fierce anger! His wrath is poured out like volcanic fire, boulders are broken up as he approaches.

  • Exod 19:18
    75%

    18Now Mount Sinai was completely covered with smoke because the LORD had descended on it in fire, and its smoke went up like the smoke of a great furnace, and the whole mountain shook violently.

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    4O LORD, when you departed from Seir, when you marched from Edom’s plains, the earth shook, the heavens poured down, the clouds poured down rain.

    5The mountains trembled before the LORD, the God of Sinai; before the LORD God of Israel.

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    14Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides,

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    72%

    8O fire and hail, snow and clouds, O stormy wind that carries out his orders,

    9you mountains and all you hills, you fruit trees and all you cedars,

  • Hab 3:10
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    10When the mountains see you, they shake. The torrential downpour sweeps through. The great deep shouts out; it lifts its hands high.

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    6He will descend like rain on the mown grass, like showers that drench the earth.

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    71%

    14The LORD thundered from the sky; the Most High shouted loudly.

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    8as the mountains rose up, and the valleys went down– to the place you appointed for them.

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    30The LORD will give a mighty shout and intervene in power, with furious anger and flaming, destructive fire, with a driving rainstorm and hailstones.

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    24I looked at the mountains and saw that they were shaking. All the hills were swaying back and forth!

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    6Come! Let’s bow down and worship! Let’s kneel before the LORD, our Creator!

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    70%

    19To you, O LORD, I call out for help, for fire has burned up the pastures of the wilderness, flames have razed all the trees in the fields.

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    70%

    5Gaze at the heavens and see; consider the clouds, which are higher than you!

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    70%

    24The LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust; it will come down on you from the sky until you are destroyed.

  • Ps 77:18
    70%

    18Your thunderous voice was heard in the wind; the lightning bolts lit up the world; the earth trembled and shook.

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    70%

    20The LORD came down on Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain, and the LORD summoned Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

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    12The fortified city(along with the very tops of your walls) he will knock down, he will bring it down, he will throw it down to the dusty ground.

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    15But you were brought down to Sheol, to the remote slopes of the Pit.

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    4He summons the heavens above, as well as the earth, so that he might judge his people.

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    5Rise up above the sky, O God! May your splendor cover the whole earth!

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    22For a fire has been kindled by my anger, and it burns to lowest Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and ignites the foundations of the mountains.

  • Ps 108:5
    70%

    5Rise up above the sky, O God! May your splendor cover the whole earth!

  • Isa 9:18
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    18For evil burned like a fire, it consumed thorns and briers; it burned up the thickets of the forest, and they went up in smoke.

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    5like heat in a dry land, you humble the boasting foreigners. Just as the shadow of a cloud causes the heat to subside, so he causes the song of tyrants to cease.