2 Samuel 22:28
And the afflicted people thou will save, but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou may bring them down.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
27With the pure thou will show thyself pure. And with the perverse thou will show thyself contrary.
29For thou are my lamp, O LORD. And LORD will lighten my darkness.
Cross References
Exodus 3:7And LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
Exodus 10:3And Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, Thus says LORD, the God of the Hebrews, How long will thou refuse to humble thyself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
Job 40:11Pour forth the overflowings of thine anger, and look upon everyone who is proud, and abase him.
Psalms 72:12For he will deliver a needy man when he cries, and a poor man, who has no helper.
Psalms 140:12I know that LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted man, and justice for the needy.
Isaiah 2:11The lofty looks of man shall be brought low, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 22:3-51
David's Song of Praise. ( b. c. 1020.) 1 And David spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul: Observe here, I. That it has often been the lot of God's people to have many enemies, and to be in imminent danger of falling into their hands. David was a man after God's heart, but not after men's heart: many were those that hated him, and sought his ruin; Saul is particularly named, either, 1. As distinguished… Read the whole commentary →