Psalms 144:7

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Stretch forth thy hand from above; Rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, Out of the hand of {H5236} aliens;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

שְׁלַ֥ח יָדֶ֗יךָ מִמָּ֫ר֥וֹם פְּצֵ֣נִי וְ֭הַצִּילֵנִי מִמַּ֣יִם רַבִּ֑ים מִ֝יַּ֗ד בְּנֵ֣י נֵכָֽר׃

Transliteration

Šĕlaḥ your yādeykā from mimmārôm, pĕṣēnî and wĕhaṣṣîlēnî from mimmayim rabbîm, from miyyad bĕnê nēkār.

Grammar Details

• *šĕlaḥ*: Qal imperative, masculine singular - send/stretch out
• *yādeykā*: noun feminine dual + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your hands
• *mimmārôm*: preposition + noun masculine singular - from on high
• *pĕṣēnî*: Qal imperative, masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - rescue me
• *wĕhaṣṣîlēnî*: conjunction + Hiphil imperative, masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - and deliver me
• *mimmayim*: preposition + noun masculine plural - from waters
• *rabbîm*: adjective masculine plural - many/great
• *miyyad*: preposition + noun feminine singular construct - from the hand of
• *bĕnê*: noun masculine plural construct - sons of
• *nēkār*: noun masculine singular - foreignness/foreign

Word Meanings

• *šĕlaḥ*: send/stretch out/extend
• *mimmārôm*: from on high/from the height/from above
• *pĕṣēnî*: rescue me/deliver me/free me
• *wĕhaṣṣîlēnî*: and deliver me/and save me/and rescue me
• *mimmayim rabbîm*: from many waters/from great waters (metaphor for danger)
• *bĕnê nēkār*: sons of foreignness/foreigners/strangers

Referenced Verses

• Ps 18:16 : 16 He sent from on high, he took me; He drew me out of many waters.
• Ps 69:1-2 : 1 For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshannim, [A Psalm] of David. Save me, O God; For the waters are come in unto my soul. 2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
• Rev 17:15 : 15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the harlot sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
• Ps 18:44 : 44 As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me; The foreigners shall submit themselves unto me.
• Ps 54:3 : 3 For strangers are risen up against me, And violent men have sought after my soul: They have not set God before them. {H5542}
• 2 Sam 22:17 : 17 He sent from on high, he took me; He drew me out of many waters;
• Ps 93:3-4 : 3 The floods have lifted up, O Jehovah, The floods have lifted up their voice; The floods lift up their waves. 4 Above the voices of many waters, The mighty breakers of the sea, Jehovah on high is mighty.
• Ps 144:11 : 11 Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hand of {H5236} aliens, Whose mouth speaketh deceit, And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
• Mal 2:11 : 11 Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of Jehovah which he loveth, and hath married the daughter of a foreign god.
• Matt 27:43 : 43 He trusteth on God; let him deliver him now, if he desireth him: for he said, I am the Son of God.
• Rev 12:15-16 : 15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth after the woman water as a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream. 16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
• Neh 9:2 : 2 And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
• Ps 69:14-15 : 14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: Let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. 15 Let not the waterflood overwhelm me, Neither let the deep shallow me up; And let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.