Text -- Psalms 144:7 (NET)

144:7 Reach down from above! Grab me and rescue me from the surging water, from the power of foreigners,

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 144:7

¹ tn Heb “stretch out your hands.”

² tn Heb “mighty waters.” The waters of the sea symbolize the psalmist’s powerful foreign enemies, as well as the realm of death they represent (see the next line and Ps 18:16-17).

³ tn Heb “from the hand of the sons of foreignness.”