2 Samuel 22:16
And the overflow of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the globe were revealed, at the rebuke of the Lord, at the exhale of the breath of his fury.
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In Context
15He shot arrows, and he scattered them; lightning, and he consumed them.
17He sent from on high, and he took me up. And he drew me out of many waters.
Cross References
Exodus 15:8And by the breath of your fury, the waters were gathered together. The flowing waves stood still. The abyss was gathered into the midst of the sea.
Job 38:11And I said: “This far you will approach, and you will proceed no further, and here you will break your swelling waves.”
Psalms 74:1Unto the end. May you not be corrupted. A Canticle Psalm of Asaph.
Psalms 114:3The sorrows of death have surrounded me, and the perils of Hell have found me. I have found tribulation and sorrow.
Habakkuk 3:8Could you have been angry with the rivers, Lord? Or was your fury within the rivers, or your indignation in the sea? He will ascend upon your horses, and your four-horse chariots are salvation.
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 →