Psalms 144:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

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 Version and Revised Version followed.

Rid. snatch. Hebrew. pazah. same word as in Psalms 144:11, and "delivereth", Psalms 144:10.

deliver. pluck, or rescue. Hebrew. naz al; same word as in Psalms 144:11, not the same as in verses: Psalms 144:2; Psalms 144:10.

strange. Always means foreign, in Hebrew, as in early English.

strange children. aliens. Hebrew. sons of the foreigner.

Psalms 144:7

7 Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;