2 Samuel 22:28
You save the humble, but your eyes watch the proud to bring them down.
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27You show yourself pure to those who are pure, but you show yourself astute to those who are crafty.
29You, Lord, are my lamp. The Lord lights up my darkness.
Cross References
Exodus 3:7“I'm completely aware of the misery of my people in Egypt,” the Lord told him. “I have heard them crying out because of their taskmasters. I know how much they're suffering.
Exodus 10:3Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long are you going to refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, so that they can worship me.
Job 40:11Let loose your fierce anger. Humble the proud with a glance.
Psalms 72:12He will help the poor when they cry out to him, and help those who are suffering that have no one to support them.
Psalms 140:12Yet I know the Lord defends the rights of those who are persecuted, and gives justice to the poor.
Isaiah 2:11Those who look with arrogance will be brought low; those who are proud will be humbled. On that day only the Lord will be lifted high.
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 →