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Hebrew Names Version

Psalms 18:16

He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Readings, Select;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Fire;   Psalms, the Book of;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Deliver;   Flood, the;   Water;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Apocalyptic Literature;   David;   English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Jonah;   Psalms;   Salvation, Saviour;   Sin;   Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   Water;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - David;   Heaven;   Psalms the book of;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Heaven;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Anger;   Cosmogony;   Theophany;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for August 4;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He reached down from on highand took hold of me;he pulled me out of deep water.
King James Version
He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
English Standard Version
He sent from on high, he took me; he drew me out of many waters.
New Century Version
The Lord reached down from above and took me; he pulled me from the deep water.
New English Translation
He reached down from above and took hold of me; he pulled me from the surging water.
Amplified Bible
He reached from on high, He took me; He drew me out of many waters.
New American Standard Bible
He sent from on high, He took me; He drew me out of many waters.
World English Bible
He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He hath sent downe from aboue and taken mee: hee hath drawen mee out of many waters.
Legacy Standard Bible
He sent from on high, He took me;He drew me out of many waters.
Berean Standard Bible
He reached from on high and took hold of me; He drew me out of deep waters.
Contemporary English Version
You reached down from heaven, and you lifted me from deep in the ocean.
Complete Jewish Bible
The channels of water appeared, the foundations of the world were exposed at your rebuke, Adonai , at the blast of breath from your nostrils.
Darby Translation
He reached forth from above, he took me, he drew me out of great waters:
Easy-to-Read Version
He reached down from above and grabbed me. He pulled me from the deep water.
George Lamsa Translation
He sent from on high and quieted me; he received me out of great waters.
Good News Translation
The Lord reached down from above and took hold of me; he pulled me out of the deep waters.
Lexham English Bible
He reached from on high; he seized me. He drew me from many waters.
Literal Translation
He sent from on high, He took me; He drew me out of many waters;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He sent downe fro the heyth to fetch me, & toke me out of greate waters.
American Standard Version
He sent from on high, he took me; He drew me out of many waters.
Bible in Basic English
He sent from on high, he took me, pulling me out of great waters.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the channels of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were laid bare,
King James Version (1611)
He sent from aboue, he tooke me, he drew me out of many waters.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He hath sent downe from aboue to fetch me: he hath taken me out of many waters.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He sent from on high and took me, he drew me to himself out of many waters.
English Revised Version
He sent from on high, he took me; he drew me out of many waters.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the wellis of watris apperiden; and the foundementis of the erthe weren schewid. Lord, of thi blamyng; of the brething of the spirit of thin ire.
Update Bible Version
He sent from on high, he took me; He drew me out of many waters.
Webster's Bible Translation
He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
New King James Version
He sent from above, He took me; He drew me out of many waters.
New Living Translation
He reached down from heaven and rescued me; he drew me out of deep waters.
New Life Bible
He sent from above, and took me. He lifted me out of many waters.
New Revised Standard
He reached down from on high, he took me; he drew me out of mighty waters.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He sent from on high, he took me, - he drew me out of many waters.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(17-17) He sent from on high, and took me: and received me out of many waters.
Revised Standard Version
He reached from on high, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
Young's Literal Translation
He sendeth from above -- He taketh me, He draweth me out of many waters.
THE MESSAGE
But me he caught—reached all the way from sky to sea; he pulled me out Of that ocean of hate, that enemy chaos, the void in which I was drowning. They hit me when I was down, but God stuck by me. He stood me up on a wide-open field; I stood there saved—surprised to be loved!
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He sent from on high, He took me; He drew me out of many waters.

Contextual Overview

1 <> I love you, LORD, my strength. 2 The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; My God, my rock, in whom I will take refuge; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower. 3 I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; So shall I be saved from my enemies. 4 The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid. 5 The cords of She'ol were round about me; The snares of death came on me. 6 In my distress I called on the LORD, And cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple, My cry before him came into his ears. 7 Then the eretz shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken, Because he was angry. 8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, Fire out of his mouth devoured; Coals were kindled by it. 9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet. 10 He rode on a Keruv, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

He sent: Psalms 57:3, Psalms 144:7

drew: Psalms 18:43, Psalms 40:1-3, Exodus 2:10, 2 Samuel 22:17

many waters: or, great waters, Jonah 2:5, Jonah 2:6, Revelation 17:15

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 17:37 - The Lord Psalms 40:2 - brought Psalms 130:1 - Out of Proverbs 17:8 - gift Jeremiah 51:42 - General

Cross-References

Acts 15:3
They, being sent on their way by the assembly, passed through both Phoenicia and Shomron, declaring the conversion of the Goyim. They caused great joy to all the brothers.
Acts 20:38
sorrowing most of all because of the word which he had spoken, that they should see his face no more. They brought him on his way to the ship.
Acts 21:5
When it happened that we had accomplished the days, we departed and went on our journey. They all, with wives and children, brought us on our way until we were out of the city. Kneeling down on the beach, we prayed.
Romans 15:24
whenever I journey to Spain, I will come to you. For I hope to see you on my journey, and to be helped on my way there by you, if first I may enjoy your company for a while.
3 John 1:6
They have testified about your love before the assembly. You will do well to send them forward on their journey in a manner worthy of God,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He sent from above,.... Either his hand, as in Psalms 144:7; he exerted and displayed his mighty power in raising Christ from the dead; or he sent help from his sanctuary; as in Psalms 20:2; and helped and strengthened him in a day of salvation; or when he wrought out the salvation of his people; or "he sent his word", as in Psalms 107:20; his word of command, to take up his life again, as he had given it to lay it down, John 10:18. The Targum is, he sent his prophets; but it may be much better supplied, he sent his angels, or an angel; as he did at his resurrection, who rolled away the stone from the sepulchre, as a token of his justification and discharge: so Jarchi interprets it, he sent his angels; and Aben Ezra supplies it thus,

"he sent his word or his angel:''

unless the sense should be, as Cocceius suggests, he sent a cloud from above, which was done at Christ's ascension, and which received him out of the sight of the apostles, Acts 1:9. Since it follows,

he took me; that is, up to heaven; thither Christ was carried in a cloud, one of God's chariots, he sent for him; and where he is received, and will be retained until his second coming; though rather the sense is, he took me by the hand:

he drew me out of many waters. This is said either in allusion to Moses, who had his name from his being drawn out of the water, Exodus 2:10; and who was an eminent type of Christ; and this is the only place where the Hebrew word is made use of from whence he had his name; or else to a man plunged in water ready to be drowned; see Psalms 69:1. By these "many waters" may be meant the many afflictions, sorrows, and sufferings from which Christ was freed, when raised from the dead, and highly exalted and crowned with glory and honour; and the torrent of sins which flowed in upon him at the time he was made sin for his people, from which he was justified when risen; and so will appear a second time without sin unto salvation; and the wrath of God, the waves and billows of which went over him, and compassed him about as water, at the time of his sufferings; from which he was delivered when he was shown the path of life, and entered into the presence of God, and sat at his right hand, where are joys and pleasures for evermore; and also his grand enemy Satan, with his principalities and powers, who came in like a flood upon him; but he destroyed him and spoiled them; and particularly the floods of ungodly men, spoken of in Psalms 18:4; seem to be here designed; compare with this Psalms 144:7; "so many waters" signify many people and nations, Revelation 17:15; and accordingly the Targum is,

"he delivered me from many people.''

This was true of Christ when risen and ascended; he was then separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; and this sense is confirmed by the following words, where what is expressed figuratively here is there literally explained.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He sent from above - He interposed to save me. All these manifestations of the divine interposition were from above, or from heaven; all came from God.

He took me - He took hold on me; he rescued me.

He drew me out of many waters - Margin, great waters. Waters are often expressive of calamity and trouble, Psalms 46:3; Psalms 69:1; Psalms 73:10; Psalms 124:4-5. The meaning here is, that God had rescued him out of the many troubles and dangers that encompassed him, as if he had fallen into the sea and was in danger of perishing.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 18:16. He drew me out of many waters. — Here the allusion is still carried on. The waters thus poured out were sweeping the people away; but God, by a miraculous interference, sent and drew David out. Sometimes waters are used to denote multitudes of people; and here the word may have that reference; multitudes were gathered together against David, but God delivered him from them all. This seems to be countenanced by the following verse.


 
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