Psalm 144:6 {143:6}
Good News Translation
Send flashes of lightning and scatter your enemies; shoot your arrows and send them running.

New Revised Standard Version
Make the lightning flash and scatter them; send out your arrows and rout them.

Contemporary English Version
Use your lightning as arrows to scatter my enemies and make them run away.

New American Bible
Flash forth lightning and scatter my foes; shoot your arrows and rout them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them.

cast forth

Psalm 18:13,14 And the Lord thundered from heaven, and the Highest gave his voice: hail and coals of fire. . . .

Psalm 77:17,18 Great was the noise of the waters: the clouds sent out a sound. For thy arrows pass: . . .

2 Samuel 22:12-15 He made darkness a covering round about him: dropping waters out of the clouds of the heavens. . . .

shoot out

Psalm 7:12 Except you will be converted, he will brandish his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

Psalm 21:12 For thou shalt make them turn their back: in thy remnants thou shalt prepare their face.

Psalm 45:5 Thy arrows are sharp: under thee shall people fall, into the hearts of the king's enemies.

Deuteronomy 32:23,42 I will heap evils upon them, and will spend my arrows among them. . . .

Context
Blessed Be the LORD, My Rock
5Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. 6Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them.7Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of strange children:…
Cross References
Psalm 7:13
And in it he hath prepared to instruments of death, he hath made ready his arrows for them that burn.

Psalm 18:14
And he sent forth his arrows, and he scattered them: he multiplied lightnings, and troubled them.

Psalm 58:7
They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent his bow till they be weakened.

Psalm 59:11
God shall let me see over my enemies: slay them not, lest at any time my people forget. Scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord, my protector:

Psalm 89:10
Thou hast humbled the proud one, as one that is slain: with the arm of thy strength thou hast scattered thy enemies.

Habakkuk 3:11
The sun and the moon stood still in their habitation, in the light of thy arrows, they shall go in the brightness of thy glittering spear.

Zechariah 9:14
And the Lord God shall be seen over them, and his dart shall go forth as lightning: and the Lord God will sound the trumpet, and go in the whirlwind of the south.

Psalm 144:5
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