Send forth Your hand from above; Rescue me and deliver me out of great waters, From the hand of foreigners,
He sent from above, He took me; He drew me out of many waters.
And he said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the whore sits, are peoples, and crowds, and nations, and tongues.
For strangers have risen up against me, And cruel men have sought after my life; They have not set Elohim before them. Selah.
As soon as they hear of me they obey me; The foreigners submit to me.
“He sent from above, He took me, He drew me out of many waters.
He trusted in Elohim, let Him rescue Him now if He desires Him, for He said, ‘I am the Son of Elohim.’ ”
Yehuḏah has acted treacherously, and an abomination has been done in Yisra’ĕl and in Yerushalayim, for Yehuḏah has profaned what is set-apart to יהוה – which He had loved – and has married the daughter of a foreign mighty one.
Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, Whose mouth has spoken falsehood, And whose right hand is a right hand of lies;
And the descendants of Yisra’ĕl separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins, and the crookednesses of their fathers,
He delivered me from my strong enemy, And from those hating me, For they were stronger than I.
“Then the waters would have overwhelmed us, The stream would have gone over our being;