2 Samuel 22:5
When the breakers of death surrounded me, || The streams of the worthless terrify me,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;
In Context
4I call on YHWH, [who is worthy] to be praised: And I am saved from my enemies.
6The cords of Sheol have surrounded me, || The snares of death have been before me.
Cross References
Psalms 42:8By day YHWH commands His kindness, || And by night a song [is] with me, || A prayer to the God of my life.
Psalms 93:3Floods have lifted up, O YHWH, || Floods have lifted up their voice, || Floods lift up their breakers.
Jeremiah 46:7Who is this? He comes up as a flood, || His waters shake themselves as rivers!
1 Thessalonians 5:3for when they may say, “Peace and security,” then sudden destruction comes [on] them, as the travail [on] her who is with child, and they will not escape;
Revelation 17:1And there came one of the seven messengers, who were having the seven bowls, and he spoke with me, saying to me, “Come, I will show to you the judgment of the great whore, who is sitting on the many waters,
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 →