2 Samuel 22:7

In my adversity I call on YHWH, || And I call to my God, || And He hears my voice from His temple, || And my cry [is] in His ears,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.

In Context

6The cords of Sheol have surrounded me, || The snares of death have been before me.

8And the earth shakes and trembles, || Foundations of the heavens are troubled, || And are shaken, for He has wrath!

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Cross References

1 Kings 8:28Then You have turned to the prayer of Your servant, and to his supplication, O YHWH my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which Your servant is praying before You today,

Psalms 27:4One [thing] I asked of YHWH—it I seek: My dwelling in the house of YHWH, || All the days of my life, || To look on the pleasantness of YHWH, || And to inquire in His temple.

Psalms 34:15The eyes of YHWH [are] to the righteous, || And His ears to their cry.

Psalms 116:4And in the Name of YHWH I call: Ah, now, O YHWH, deliver my soul,

Jonah 2:4And I said: I have been cast out from before Your eyes || (Yet I add to look to Your holy temple!)

Habakkuk 2:20And YHWH [is] in His holy temple, || Be silent before Him, all the earth!”

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 →

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