Psalms 144:7
Stretch out your hand from on high; pluck me out of the mighty waters, out of the hands of foreigners,
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In Context
6Flash forth lightning and scatter them, your arrows send forth and confound them.
8who speak with the mouth of falsehood, and lift their right hand to swear lies.
Cross References
Psalms 18:16He stretched from on high, he seized me, drew me up from the mighty waters,
Psalms 18:44On the instant they hear, they obey me, foreigners come to me cringing.
Psalms 69:1Save me, O God; for the waters are threatening my life.
Psalms 93:3The floods, O Lord, have lifted, the floods have lifted their voice, the floods lift up their roar.
Psalms 144:11Snatch me from the cruel sword, rescue me from the hand of foreigners, who speak with the mouth of falsehood, and lift their right hand to swear lies.
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 →