2 Samuel 22:28
You save an afflicted people, but Your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
27to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.
29For You, O LORD, are my lamp; the LORD lights up my darkness.
Cross References
Exodus 3:7The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.
Exodus 10:3So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.
Job 40:11Unleash the fury of your wrath; look on every proud man and bring him low.
Psalms 72:12For he will deliver the needy who cry out and the afflicted who have no helper.
Psalms 140:12I know that the LORD upholds justice for the poor and defends the cause of the needy.
Isaiah 2:11The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted 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 →