Psalms 144:5

"Bow thy heavens, O Jehovah, and come down:

Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

Cast forth lightning, and scatter them;

Send out thine arrows and discomfit them.

Stretch forth thy hand from above;

Rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters,

Out of the hand of aliens;

Whose mouth speaketh deceit,

And whose right hand is a a right hand of falsehood."

Delitzsch's concise paraphrase of these four verses is, "May Jahve then be pleased to grant a victory this time also over the boastful lying enemies."[12]

"The mountains shall smoke ... lightnings ... arrows" (Psalms 144:5-6). "The prayer is that God would come to his relief as if in smoke and tempest - in the fury of a storm."[13]

"Out of great waters ... out of the hand of aliens" (Psalms 144:7). The serious threat against Israel, "Is here described first as `great waters' and then, more literally, as pressure from foreign powers who think nothing of breaking solemn treaties."[14] Addis agreed that "Verse 7 here can only mean foreigners."[15]