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Psalms 144:6

4 Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

5 Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.

Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them.

7 Reach down from on high; set me free and rescue me from the deep waters, from the grasp of foreigners,

8 whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them.
KJV
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
WEB
Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them.
ASV
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; Send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.
DARBY
Cast forth lightnings, and scatter them; send forth thine arrows, and discomfit them:
BLB
Flash lightning and scatter them; send forth Your arrows and rout them!
ÅB
La lynet lyne og spred dem[^1], send dine piler og skrem dem!
OTB
Send lyn og spred dem;
Skyt Dine piler og forvirr dem.
B1930
La lynet lyne og spred dem, send dine piler og skrem dem! / < fiendene.>

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