Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Psalms 144:7
Send Thine hand from above, extending it in His almighty power; rid me, saving him from drowning, and deliver me out of great waters from the hand of strange children, the heathen enemies, the barbarians,
Send Thine hand from above, extending it in His almighty power; rid me, saving him from drowning, and deliver me out of great waters from the hand of strange children, the heathen enemies, the barbarians,
Verse Psalms 144:7. _DELIVER ME OUT OF GREAT WATERS_] Psalms 18:16....
SEND THINE HAND FROM ABOVE - Margin, as in Hebrew, “hands.” See the notes at Psalms 18:16 : “He sent from above.” RID ME, AND DELIVER ME OUT OF GREAT WATERS - Thus Psalms 18:16 : “He took me, he drew...
PSALM 143-145 In Psalms 143:1 the enemy is mentioned again, the enemy who pursued David. “For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has smitten my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in da...
CXLIV. Ascribed by LXX and also by T. to David against Goliath, but without any shadow of reason. Psalms 144:1 is really a mosaic chiefly taken from Psalms 18, but also from Psalms 8, 33, 104. It is a...
SEND. Put forth. HAND. Hebrew text reads "hands" (plural); but some codices, with one early printed edition, Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "hand" (singular), which Authorized Versio...
Prayer that God will appear in His majesty and deliver the Psalmist from his treacherous enemies....
Stretch forth thine hands from on high: Rescue me, and deliver me out of many waters, out of the hand of strangers. From Psalms 18:16; Psalms 18:45, description being again changed to prayer. For _h...
PSALMS 144 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE From David's Psalms are Selected Strains, by one of his Sons, Emboldening him to Plead for Deliverance from Foreigners. An Appendix anticipates Happy Times. ANALYSIS St...
Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children; SEND (EXTEND) THINE HAND FROM ABOVE; RID ME, AND DELIVER ME OUT OF GREAT WATERS - (Psalms 1...
This Ps. consists mainly of thoughts and quotations from earlier Pss., e.g. 8 and 18. Psalms 144:12 are, however, quite unlike anything else in the Psalter, and some suppose them to be a quotation fro...
STRANGE CHILDREN] i.e. strangers....
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ WE *BLESS GOD AND GOD *BLESSES US! PSALMS 144 Jesus said, "(God will) *bless people that are good. They will see God" ...
RID. — The Hebrew verb means “to tear asunder,” and is used of the gaping of the mouth (Psalms 22:13). The meaning here is got from the cognate Arabic, and Syriac STRANGE CHILDREN. — Literally, _sons...
שְׁלַ֥ח יָדֶ֗יךָ מִ מָּ֫רֹ֥ום פְּצֵ֣נִי וְ֭ ה
Psalms 144:1 THE force of compilation could no further go than in this psalm, which is, in the first eleven verses (Psalms 144:1)simply a _ rechauffe_ of known psalms, and in Psalms 144:12 is most pro...
GOD'S PEOPLE ARE HAPPY Psalms 144:1-15 This psalm savors of the rocky caverns from which David and his men emerged to fight. Each day the chieftain asked God to teach him to fight, and realized t...
This is a song of triumphant assurance. Its placing at this point in the book suggests the invincible experience of trusting souls. In order to appreciate all its value, the nine psalms immediately pr...
Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great (f) waters, from the hand of strange children; (f) That is, deliver me from the tumults of they who should be my people but are corrupt...
_Justice. Or mercy. (St. Chrysostom) (Calmet) --- They shall approve of thy judgments. (Haydock)_...
In every sense this prayer is striking, and beautiful in whatever sense it be considered; whether as the prayer of the church for the Lord to come down in the power of the Spirit, to bruise Satan, and...
7._Send thy hand_, etc. In one word we are now made to see what was meant by the figures formerly used — that in the absence of all earthly help, God would put forth his hand from above, the greatness...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 140 THROUGH 144. The five following psalms go over ground which we have trodden over in detail: only they apply to a restored Israel, still in conflict, and not...
SEND THINE HAND FROM ABOVE,.... From the high heavens, as the Targum; that is, exert and display thy power in my deliverance, and in the destruction of my enemies; as follows: RID ME, AND DELIVER ME...
Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children; Ver. 7. _Send thine hand from above_] Heb. hands, both hands, all thy whole power; for I nee...
_Bow thy heavens and come down_ To help me before it be too late, remembering what a frail and perishing creature I am. “David having celebrated his victories over some of his enemies, and extolled th...
HAND: _ Heb._ hands...
1-8 When men become eminent for things as to which they have had few advantages, they should be more deeply sensible that God has been their Teacher. Happy those to whom the Lord gives that noblest v...
Either of the heathen nations, which envy and hate me; or of the rebellious Israelites, who, though they profess themselves to be the Lord's people, yet in truth and for their carriage to me are like...
Psalms 144:7 out H7971 (H8798) hand H3027 above H4791 Rescue H6475 (H8798) deliver H5337 (H8685) great...
A Psalm of David. No doubt written after some great victory, and also before another severe struggle. The Christian man seldom escapes from one difficulty without falling into another. Thanks be unto...
CONTENTS: Acknowledgment of the great goodness of God and prayer for the prosperity of the kingdom. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Happy is the people whose God is the Lord, for even when they...
This, and the six following psalms, are all eucharistical, and seem to have been composed when David's sorrows were changed to joys. He here praises God for past mercies, and asks grace for the future...
_Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight._ THE LORD TEACHING US TO FIGHT I do not know what that “Book of the Wars of the Lord” was which is referred...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 144:1. This royal psalm asks God to give victory to the reigning heir of David. The “I” in vv. Psalms 144:1 is the Davidic king. God’s p
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 144:5 The psalm moves on to request: RESCUE ME AND DELIVER ME... FROM THE HAND OF FOREIGNERS. This suggests that the psalm is especially suited to a time when the king must lead t...
INTRODUCTION “This is a singularly composite Psalm. The earlier portion of it, to the end of Psalms 144:11, consists almost entirely of a cento of quotations, strung together from earlier Psalms; and...
EXPOSITION A PSALM in which praise and prayer are commingled. Almost certainly Davidic: 1. From the title. 2. From the style. 3. From the way in which David is mentioned in Psalms 144:10 (comp. Psa...
Blessed be the LORD my strength, which (Psalms 144:1) Now this is a psalm of David, and of course, some people get upset with this psalm because David thanks God for making him such a tough fighter....
2 Samuel 22:17; Malachi 2:11; Matthew 27:43; Nehemiah 9:2; Psalms 18
Strange children — Either of the Heathen nations: or of the rebellious Israelites....