2 Samuel 22:28
And the poor people thou wilt save: and with thy eyes thou wilt humble the haughty.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
27With the elect thou wilt be elect: and with the perverse thou wilt be perverted.
29For thou art my lamp, O Lord: and thou, O Lord, wilt enlighten 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 cry because of the rigour of them that are over the works:
Exodus 10:3Therefore Moses and Aaron went in to Pharao, and said to him: Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews: How long refusest thou to submit to me? let my people go, to sacrifice to me.
Job 40:11His strength is in his loins, and his force in the navel of his belly.
Psalms 72:12For he shall deliver the poor from the mighty: and the needy that had no helper.
Psalms 140:12But darkness shall not be dark to thee, and night shall be light as day: the darkness thereof, and the light thereof are alike to thee.
Isaiah 2:11The lofty eyes of man are humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be made to stoop: and 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 →