2 Samuel 22:28
And You save the poor people, || But Your eyes on the high cause [them] to fall.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
27With the pure You show Yourself pure, || And with the perverse You show Yourself a wrestler.
29For You [are] my lamp, O YHWH, || And YHWH lightens my darkness.
Cross References
Exodus 3:7And YHWH says, “I have certainly seen the affliction of My people who [are] in Egypt, and I have heard their cry because of its exactors, for I have known its pains;
Exodus 10:3And Moses comes in—Aaron also—to Pharaoh, and they say to him, “Thus said YHWH, God of the Hebrews: Until when have you refused to be humbled at My presence? Send My people away, and they serve Me,
Job 40:11Scatter abroad the wrath of your anger, || And see every proud one, and make him low.
Psalms 72:12For He delivers the needy who cries, || And the poor when he has no helper,
Psalms 140:12I have known that YHWH executes || The judgment of the afflicted, || The judgment of the needy.
Isaiah 2:11The haughty eyes of man have been humbled, || And the loftiness of men has been bowed down, || And YHWH alone has been set on high in that day.
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 →