Send thine hand from above
From the high heavens, as the Targum; that is, exert and display thy power in my deliverance, and in the destruction of my enemies; as follows: rid me, and deliver me out of great waters;
out of great afflictions, which, for quantity and quality, are like many waters, overflowing and overwhelming; see ( Isaiah 43:2 ) ; or out of the hands of enemies, many, mighty, and strong, whom he compares to waters; as Aben Ezra, Kimchi, and Ben Melech observe: and so the Targum,
``deliver me from the multitudes or armies, that are like to many waters;''see ( Revelation 17:1 Revelation 17:15 ) ( Isaiah 8:7 Isaiah 8:8 ) ( Jeremiah 51:42 ) . It may be applied to the sorrows and sufferings of Christ, the antitype of David, with which he was overwhelmed; to the billows of divine wrath which went over him; to the floods of ungodly men that encompassed him; and to the whole posse of devils, Satan, and his principalities and powers, that attacked him; see ( Psalms 18:4 ) ( Psalms 69:1 Psalms 69:2 ) ; from the hand of strange children;