2 Samuel 22:5
For the pangs of death have sur rounded me: the floods of Belial have made me afraid.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 on the Lord who is worthy to be praised: and I shall be saved from my enemies.
6The cords of hell compassed me: the snares of death prevented me.
Cross References
Psalms 42:8Deep calleth on deep, at the noise of thy flood-gates. All thy heights and thy billows have passed over me.
Psalms 93:3The floods have lifted up, O Lord: the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods have lifted up their waves,
Jeremiah 46:7Who is this that cometh up as a flood: and his streams swell like those of rivers ?
1 Thessalonians 5:3For when they shall say, peace and security; then shall sudden destruction come upon them, as the pains upon her that is with child, and they shall not escape.
Revelation 17:1And there came one of the seven angels, who had the seven vials, and spoke with me, saying: Come, I will shew thee the condemnation of the great harlot, who sitteth upon 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 →