2 Samuel 22:5
For the waves of Death compassed me. The floods of Belial assailed me.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;
In Context
4Praised, I cry, is the LORD, and I am saved from mine enemies.
6The cords of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of Death confronted me.
Cross References
Psalms 42:8(42-9) By day the LORD will command His lovingkindness, and in the night His song shall be with me, even a prayer unto the God of my life.
Psalms 93:3The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their roaring.
Jeremiah 46:7Who is this like the Nile that riseth up, like the rivers whose waters toss themselves?
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 →