Psalms 143:7
Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of strange children:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Emitte manum tuam de alto : eripe me, et libera me de aquis multis, de manu filiorum alienorum :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐξαπόστειλον τὴν χεῖρά σου ἐξ ὕψους, ἐξελοῦ με καὶ ῥῦσαί με ἐξ ὑδάτων πολλῶν, ἐκ χειρὸς υἱῶν ἀλλοτρίων,
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 144:7
- שְׁלַ֥ח יָדֶ֗יךָ מִמָּ֫ר֥וֹם פְּצֵ֣נִי וְ֭הַצִּילֵנִי מִמַּ֣יִם רַבִּ֑ים מִ֝יַּ֗ד בְּנֵ֣י נֵכָֽר
Haydock's commentary
Waters. Of tribulation. (Worthington)
Children. My rebellious subjects, (Haydock) who lead bad lives in the true Church. (Worthington)
Foreign nations continued faithful, while Israel rose up against their sovereign.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Book III, Chapter XI
19. And Thou sendedst Thine hand from above, and drewest my soul out of that profound darkness, when my mother, Thy faithful one, wept to thee on my behalf more than mothers are wont to weep the bodily death of their children. For she saw that I was dead by that faith and spirit which she had from Thee, and Thou heardest her, O Lord. Thou heardest her, and despisedst not her tears, when, pouring down, they watered the earth under her eyes in every place where she prayed; yea, Thou heardest her. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CXLIV
6. “Lord, bow Thy heavens, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke” ( ver. 5 ). “Flash Thy lightning, and Thou shalt scatter them; send forth Thine arrows, and Thou shalt confound them” ( ver. 6 ). “Send forth Thy Hand from above, and deliver me, and draw me out of many waters” ( ver. 7 ). The Body of Christ, the humble David, full of grace, relying on God, fighting in this world, calleth for the help of God. What are “heavens bowed down”? Apostles humbled. For those “heavens declare the glory of God;” and of these heavens declaring the glory of God it is presently said, “There is neither speech nor language, but their voices are heard among them,” etc. …