2 Samuel 22:5
For the waves of death came round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear;
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;
In Context
6The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.
Cross References
Psalms 42:8\42:7\Deep is sounding to deep at the noise of your waterfalls; all your waves have gone rolling over me.
Psalms 93:3The rivers send up, O Lord, the rivers send up their voices; they send them up with a loud cry.
Jeremiah 46:7Who is this coming up like the Nile, whose waters are lifting their heads like the rivers?
1 Thessalonians 5:3When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.
Revelation 17:1And one of the seven angels who had the seven vessels came and said to me, Come here, so that you may see the judging of the evil woman who is seated on the great 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 →