2 Samuel 22:5
For the waves of death encompassed me, the floods of destruction made me afraid;
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;
In Context
4Praised, I cried, be the Lord, and from my enemies was I saved.
6The bonds of hell encircled me, the snares of death seized on me:
Cross References
Psalms 42:8(42:9) In the daytime the Lord will command his kindness, and in the night his song shall be with me, as a prayer unto the God of my life.
Psalms 93:3The rivers have lifted up, O Lord, the rivers have lifted up their voice; the rivers lift up their waves.
Jeremiah 46:7Who is this that cometh up like a stream, whose waters are upheaved like the rivers?
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 →