2 Samuel 22:42
They look, and there is no savior; To YHWH, and He has not answered them.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
In Context
41And my enemies—You give to me the neck, || Those hating me—and I cut them off.
43And I beat them as dust of the earth, || As mire of the streets I beat them small—I spread them out!
Cross References
Job 27:9[Does] God hear his cry, || When distress comes on him?
Isaiah 1:15And in your spreading forth your hands, I hide My eyes from you, || Also when you increase prayer, I do not hear, || Your hands have been full of blood.
Micah 3:4Then they cry to YHWH, || And He does not answer them, || And hides His face from them at that time, || As they have made evil their doings.
Luke 13:25from the time the Master of the house may have risen up, and may have shut the door, and you may begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us, and He answering will say to you, I have not known you from where you are,
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 →