2 Samuel 22:42

They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD, but He answered them not.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.

In Context

41Thou hast also made mine enemies turn their backs unto me; yea, them that hate me, that I might cut them off.

43Then did I beat them small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the streets, and did tread them down.

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Cross References

Job 27:9Will God hear his cry, when trouble cometh upon him?

Isaiah 1:15And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide Mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear; your hands are full of blood.

Micah 3:4Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but He will not answer them; yea, He will hide His face from them at that time, according as they have wrought evil in their doings.

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 →

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