2 Samuel 22:28
And you will bring to salvation the poor people, and you will humble the exalted with your eyes.
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In The King James Version
In Context
27With the elect one, you will be elect, and with the perverse one, you will be perverse.
29For you are my lamp, O Lord. And you, O Lord, will illuminate my darkness.
Cross References
Exodus 3:7And the Lord said to him: “I have seen the affliction of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their outcry because of the harshness of those who are over the works.
Exodus 10:3Therefore, Moses and Aaron entered to Pharaoh, and they said to him: “Thus says the Lord God of the Hebrews: How long will you be unwilling to be subject to me? Release my people to sacrifice to me.
Job 40:11His strength is in his lower back, and his power is in the center of his abdomen.
Psalms 72:12Behold, these are sinners, and, abounding in this age, they have obtained riches.
Isaiah 2:11The lofty eyes of man have been humbled, and the haughtiness of men will be bowed down. Then the 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 →