2 Samuel 22:42
They ◄looked for/wanted► someone to rescue them, but no one did. They cried out to you, Yahweh, for help, but you did not answer them.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
In Context
41You caused my enemies to turn and run away from me; I destroyed those who hated me.
Cross References
Job 27:9When they experience troubles, ◄will God hear them call out to him for help?/God certainly will not hear them call out to him for help.► [RHQ]
Isaiah 1:15So, when you lift up your hands when you pray to me, I will not even look at you. Even if you pray to me very frequently, I will not listen to you, because it is as though your hands are covered with the blood of people whom you have killed.
Micah 3:4Then, when you have troubles, you plead to Yahweh to help you, but he will not answer you. At that time, he will turn away from you because of the evil things that you have done.”
Luke 13:25God is like the owner of a house. Some day he will lock his door. Then some of you will begin to stand outside that door and knock. You will say, ‘Lord, open the door for us!’ But he will reply, ‘ No, I will not open it, because I do not know you, and I do not know where you are from!’
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 →