With this verse, some commentators believe that one can feel the struggle that now, after David gives thanks for his rescue, he prays to be rescued. We think that that struggle disappears when we apply the end of Psalm 144:10 to the battle with Goliath. Then Psalm 144:10b is something specific from the past, and Psalm 144:11 is a general comment about what is to come. Moreover, Psalm 144:11 is almost word for word the same as Psalm 144:7b–Psalm 144:8; and a repetition of a prayer after the intermezzo in Psalm 144:9–10 is not strange.
11 Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, whose mouths speak lies and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.