Psalms 144:6

Translations

King James Version (KJV)

Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out your arrows, and destroy them.

American King James Version (AKJV)

Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out your arrows, and destroy them.

American Standard Version (ASV)

Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; Send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.

Basic English Translation (BBE)

With your storm-flames send them in flight: send out your arrows for their destruction.

Webster's Revision

Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot thy arrows, and destroy them.

World English Bible

Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them.

English Revised Version (ERV)

Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.

Definitions for Psalms 144:6

Cast - Worn-out; old; cast-off.

Clarke's Psalms 144:6 Bible Commentary

Cast forth lightning - See the note Psalm 18:13-14 (note).

Barnes's Psalms 144:6 Bible Commentary

Cast forth lightnings, and scatter them - See the notes at Psalm 18:14 : "He sent out his arrows, and scattered them." The allusion there is to lightning. The psalmist prays that; God would do now again what he had then done. The Hebrew here is, "Lighten lightning;" that is, Send forth lightning. The word is used as a verb nowhere else.

Shoot out thine arrows ... - So in Psalm 18:14 : "He shot out lightnings." The words are the same here as in that psalm, only that they are arranged differently. See the notes at that place.