Psalms 18:15

"Then the channels of waters appeared,

And the foundations of the world were laid bare,

At thy rebuke, O Jehovah,

At the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

He sent from on high, he took me;

He drew me out of many waters.

He delivered me from my strong enemy,

And from them that hated me; for they were too mighty for me."

"Channels of the waters ... foundations of the earth laid bare." "This language is reminiscent of the exodus";[13] but it also fits the event of the Final Judgment mentioned by Zephaniah (Zephaniah 1:2) in which all the "fishes of the sea: will be consumed on that Day when God will "cut off man from the face of the ground." The language here will allow the meaning that the waters of the whole earth shall be dried up, exposing the "channels of the waters" and laying bare the foundations of the earth, possibly exposing the very bottoms of the seas themselves. We freely admit that this might not be what is intended here; we only affirm that the language certainly allows such an understanding of it.

At the blast of the breath of his nostrils. Again from Ash, "This line implies divine wrath."[14] Indeed it does; and again we have another element of the Final Judgment, "The great day of his wrath" (Revelation 6:17).

Verses 16,17 have the psalmist's statement of God's saving him, drawing him out of many waters, etc. The "many waters" here are a "reference to the psalmist's enemies."[15]