2 Samuel 22:7
In my despair I called on the Lord; I called out to my God. He heard my voice from his Temple; my cry for help reached his ears.
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6The grave wound its ropes around me; death set snares for me.
8The earth shook to and fro; the foundations of the heavens trembled, shaking because of his anger.
Cross References
1 Kings 8:28Please hear the prayer of your servant and his request, Lord my God. Please hear the appeals and the prayers that your servant is presenting before you today.
Psalms 27:4I only ask the Lord for one thing: I just want to live in the house of the Lord throughout my life, contemplating the Lord's goodness and thinking about his Temple.
Psalms 34:15The Lord watches over those who do right, and he hears when they cry for help.
Psalms 116:4Then I cried out to the Lord, “Lord, please save me!”
Jonah 2:4I said to myself, ‘The Lord has banished me from his sight. Will I ever see your holy Temple again?’
Habakkuk 2:20But the Lord is in his holy Temple; let all the earth be silent in his presence.
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 →