Psalms 18:16
He reached down from on high and took hold of me; He drew me out of deep waters.
BSB
ASV
He sent from on high, he took me; He drew me out of many waters.
KJV
He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
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Psalms 57:3He reaches down from heaven and saves me; He rebukes those who trample me. Selah God sends forth His loving devotion and His truth.
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O LORD, do not withhold Your mercy from me; Your loving devotion and faithfulness will always guard me.
Send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me. Let them bring me to Your holy mountain, and to the place where You dwell.
Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know for sure that the Lord has sent His angel and rescued me from Herod’s grasp and from everything the Jewish people were anticipating.”
Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.
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2 Samuel 22:17He reached down from on high and took hold of me; He drew me out of deep waters.
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Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute was seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you go through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched;…
Reach down from on high; set me free and rescue me from the deep waters, from the grasp of foreigners,
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Psalms 18:43You have delivered me from the strife of the people; You have made me the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.
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Surely you will summon a nation you do not know, and nations who do not know you will run to you. For the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, has bestowed glory…
He sent from above,.... Either his hand, as in Psa 144:7; he exerted and displayed his mighty power in raising Christ from the dead; or he sent help from his sanctuary; as in Psa 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 Psa 107:20; his word of command, to take up his life again, as he had given it to lay it down, Joh 10:
Now comes the rescue. The Author is divine, "He sent;" the work is heavenly, "from above;" the deliverance is marvellous, "He drew me out of many waters." Here David was like another Moses, drawn from the water; and thus are all believers like their Lord, whose baptism in many waters of agony and in his own blood has redeemed us from the wrath to come. Torrents of evil shall not drown the man whose God sitteth upon the floods to restrain their fury.