Psalms 144:7
Send forth Your hand from on high, || Free me, and deliver me from many waters, || From the hand of sons of a stranger,
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
6Send forth lightning, and scatter them, || Send forth Your arrows, and trouble them,
8Because their mouth has spoken vanity, || And their right hand [is] a right hand of falsehood.
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:17He sends from above—He takes me, || He draws me out of many waters.
Psalms 18:16He sends from above—He takes me, || He draws me out of many waters.
Psalms 18:44At the hearing of the ear they listen to me, || Sons of a stranger feign obedience to me,
Psalms 69:1TO THE OVERSEER. [SET] ON “LILIES.” BY DAVID. Save me, O God, for waters have come to the soul.
Psalms 93:3Floods have lifted up, O YHWH, || Floods have lifted up their voice, || Floods lift up their breakers.
Psalms 144:11Free me, and deliver me || From the hand of sons of a stranger, || Because their mouth has spoken vanity, || And their right hand [is] a right hand of falsehood,
Matthew Henry on Psalms 144:2-9
Grateful Acknowledgments of Divine Goodness; Prayer for Success against Enemies. 1 Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight: 2 My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me. 3 Lord , what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him! 4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away. 5 Bow thy heavens, O Lord , and… Read the whole commentary →