Add parallel Print Page Options

People soon pass away, just like a breath.
    Their life is like a shadow that soon goes.
Lord, open up the heavens!
    Leave your home and come down to earth!
Touch the mountains so that they burn with smoke.
Send bright lightning to frighten your enemies.
Shoot your arrows at them
    so that they run away.[a]

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 144:6 The lightning is like arrows that come from God.