2 Samuel 22:5
For the waves of death encompassed me, Torrents of Belial made me afraid.
Darby Translation
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 Jehovah, who is to be praised; So shall I be saved from mine enemies.
6The bands of Sheol surrounded me; The cords of death encountered me;
Cross References
Psalms 42:8In the day-time will Jehovah command his loving-kindness, and in the night his song shall be with me, a prayer unto the God of my life.
Psalms 93:3The floods lifted up, O Jehovah, the floods lifted up their voice; the floods lifted up their roaring waves.
Jeremiah 46:7Who is this [that] riseth up as the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers?
1 Thessalonians 5:3When they may say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon her that is with child; and they shall in no wise escape.
Revelation 17:1And one of the seven angels, which had the seven bowls, came and spoke with me, saying, Come here, I will shew thee the sentence of the great harlot 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 →