2 Samuel 22:5
For the waves of death encompassed me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;
In Context
4I will call upon LORD, who is worthy to be praised. So I shall be saved from my enemies.
6The cords of Sheol were round about me. The snares of death came upon me.
Cross References
Psalms 42:8[Yet] LORD will command his loving kindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, [even] a prayer to the God of my life.
Psalms 93:3The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice, the floods lift up their waves.
Jeremiah 46:7Who is this that rises up like the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers?
1 Thessalonians 5:3For when they say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction approaches them, as the woman having birth pangs in her womb, and they will, no, not escape.
Revelation 17:1And one of the seven agents who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, Come, I will show thee the judgment of the great whore who sits upon the many waters
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 →