to rend · verb, qal imperative, 2nd person masculine singular + pronominal suffix
deliver
וְהַצִּילֵנִי֮ve.ha.tzi.le.Ni
H5337
to snatch away · conjunction + verb, hiphil imperative, 2nd person masculine singular + pronominal suffix
hand
מִיַּ֪דmi.Yad
H3027
a hand (the open one (indicating power · preposition + noun, common both genders singular construct
strange
נֵ֫כָ֥רne.Khar
H5236
foreign · noun, common masculine singular absolute
children
בְּֽנֵיbe.nei-
H1121
a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine plural construct
mouth
פִּ֭יהֶםPi.hem
H6310
the mouth (as the means of blowing) · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
speaketh
דִּבֶּרdi.ber-
H1696
perhaps properly · verb, piel perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
vanity
שָׁ֑וְאShav'
H7723
evil (as destructive) · noun, common masculine singular absolute
hand
וִֽ֝ימִינָ֗םvi.mi.Nam
H3225
the right hand or side (leg · conjunction + noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
hand
יְמִ֣יןye.Min
H3225
the right hand or side (leg · noun, common feminine singular construct
falsehood
שָֽׁקֶרSha.ker
H8267
an untruth · noun, common masculine singular absolute
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Cross-references
Psalms 144:7-8 Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;
Isaiah 44:20 He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
Psalms 12:2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
2 Samuel 10:6-19 And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syr…
2 Samuel 16:5-14 And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Ger…
2 Samuel 17:1-14 Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:
Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
Commentary
Matthew Henry on Psalms 144:9–end
The method is the same in this latter part of the psalm as in the former; David first gives glory to God and then begs mercy from him.
I. He praises God for the experiences he had had of his goodness to him and the encouragements he had to expect further mercy from him, Psa 144:9, Psa 144:10. In the midst of his complaints concerning the power and treachery of his enemies, here is a holy exultation in his God: I will sing a new song to thee, O God! a song of praise for new mercies, for those compassions that are new every morning. Fresh favours call for fresh returns of thanks; nay, we must praise God for the mercies we hope for by his promise as well as those we have received by his provide…
Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children,.... This is repeated from Psalm 144:7; and is done to show the vehemency and importunity of the request, and the danger David was in, and his sense of it; See Gill on Psalm 144:7;
whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood. See Gill on Psalm 144:8.
John Calvin on Psalms 144:9-11
Psalm 144:9-11
9. O God! I will sing a new song to thee: upon the nablum, upon the psaltery, [265] I will sing psalms to thee. 10. Giving salvation to kings, delivering David his servant from the hurtful sword. 11. Deliver me, and rescue me from the hand of the sons of the stranger, whose mouth hath spoken falsehood, and their right hand is a right hand of deceit.
9. O God! I will sing a new song to thee. He again sets himself, with self-possession, to the exercise of praising God, not doubting but he would continue those mercies which he had once bestowed. I have taken notice in another place that by a new song is meant one of a singular or uncommon kind; and we are left from this to infe…
With the exception of Psa 108:1-13, which is composed of two Davidic Elohim-Psalms, the Elohim in Psa 144:9 of this strophe is the only one in the last two Books of the Psalter, and is therefore a feeble attempt also to reproduce the Davidic Elohimic style. The "new song" calls to mind Psa 33:3; Psa 40:4; and נבל עשׂור also recalls Psa 33:2 (which see). The fact that David mentions himself by name in his own song comes about in imitation of Ps 18:51. From the eminence of thanksgiving the song finally descends again to petition, Psa 144:7-8, being repeated as a refrain. The petition developes itself afresh out of the attributes of the Being invoked (Psa 144:10), and these are a pledge of its…
The Church Fathers
"From" this "sword deliver me" (ver. 11). "And. take me out of the hand of strange children, whose mouth hath spoken vanity:" just as before. And that which followeth, "their right hand is a right hand of iniquity," the same he had set down before also, when he called them "many waters." For lest thou shouldest think that the "many waters" were good waters, he explained them by the "sword of ill intent."
Rescue me and free me from the hand of the sons of strangers. The little verses which were spoken above are repeated again. Whose mouth has spoken vanity, and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity. Whose sons are like new plantings established in their youth. From the hand of the sons of strangers. Let us see what sort the sons of the heretics are. Whose sons are like a new planting in their youth. From the hand of the sons of strangers. Attend diligently to what is said about the heretics.
"Lord, deliver me from the hand of foreign sons, whose mouth has spoken vanity, and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity." And he explains what vanity he speaks of and what right hand. For he calls the right hand of iniquity the happiness of this age. Not that it is not found among the good, but when the good have it, they have it in the left hand, not in the right hand. They have eternal happiness in the right hand; they have temporal happiness in the left hand. However, the desire for eternal things and eternal happiness should not be mixed with the desire for temporal things, that is, present and temporal happiness. And this is: "Let not your left hand know what your right hand does." Therefore: "Their right hand is a right hand of iniquity."
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Dictionary and topics
Falsehood · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Hands, The · Right hand, illustrative: (Full of falsehood,) of deceitfulness — Right hand, illustrative: (Full of falsehood,) of deceitfulness
Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).
The psalmist prays for God’s intervention against his enemies (cp. 18:7-19).
Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 144:11
Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:
Because of what the Lord had done, David returns to his pleading. He begs deliverance from him who is ever delivering him. Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children. This is in measure the refrain of the song, and the burden of the prayer. He desired to be delivered from his open and foreign adversaries, who had broken compacts, and treated treaties as vain things. Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood. He would not strike hands with those who carried a lie in their right hand: he would be quit of su…
