Psalms 144:7

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 handssome MSS and all Ancient Versions read hand. The word rendered rescueis a word used in this sense only here and in Psalms 144:10 in the O.T., but common in Aramaic. It is an indication of the late date of the Psalm. Greator many watersare a figure for overwhelming dangers, here particularly the attacks of foreign enemies, or possibly the tyranny of foreign rulers.