2 Samuel 22:7

When I am afflicted I will call upon the Lord, 1 And will cry to my God, 1 And he shall hear my voice out of his temple, 1 And my cry shall come into his ears. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 pangs of death surrounded me, 1 The agonies of death prevented me. 1

8And the earth was troubled and quaked, 1 And the foundations of heaven were confounded and torn asunder, 1 Because the Lord was wroth with them. 1

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Cross References

1 Kings 8:28Yet, O Lord God of Israel, thou shalt look upon my petition, to hear the prayer which thy servant prays to thee in thy presence this day,

Psalms 27:4Give them according to their works, 1 And according to the wickedness of their devices: 1 Give them according to the works of their hands; 1 Render their recompense unto them. 1

Psalms 34:15Yet they rejoiced against me, 1 And plagues were plentifully brought against me, and I knew it not: 1 They were scattered, but repented not. 1

Jonah 2:4Thou didst cast me into the depths of the heart of the sea, and the floods compassed me: 1 All thy billows and thy waves have passed upon me. 1

Habakkuk 2:20But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth fear before him.

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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