2 Samuel 22:27
With the elect one, you will be elect, and with the perverse one, you will be perverse.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.
In Context
26With the holy one, you will be holy, and with the strong one, you will be perfect.
28And you will bring to salvation the poor people, and you will humble the exalted with your eyes.
Cross References
Exodus 18:11Now I know that the great Lord is above all gods. This is why they acted arrogantly against them.”
Leviticus 26:24likewise, I will advance against you as an adversary, and I will strike you seven times, because of your sins.
Isaiah 45:9Woe to him who contradicts his Maker, a mere shard from an earthen vessel! Should the clay say to the potter, “What are you making?” or, “Your work is not made by your hands?”
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 →