2 Samuel 22:28
You save afflicted people, 1 but your eyes are against the proud, and you bring them down. 1
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In Context
27With the pure you show yourself pure, 1 but you are perverse to the twisted. 1
29For you are my lamp, Yahweh. 1 Yahweh lights up my darkness. 1
Cross References
Exodus 3:7Yahweh said, “I have certainly seen the suffering of my people who are in Egypt. I have heard their shouts because of their taskmasters, for I know about their suffering.
Exodus 10:3So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says this: 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go so that they may worship me.
Job 40:11Scatter around the excess of your anger; 1 look at everyone who is proud and bring him down. 1
Psalms 72:12For he helps the needy person who cries out 1 and the poor person who has no other helper. 1
Psalms 140:12I know that Yahweh will judge in favor of the afflicted, 1 and that he will give justice to the needy. 1
Isaiah 2:11The lofty gaze of man will be brought low, and the pride of men will be brought down, 1 and Yahweh alone will be exalted on that day. 1
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 →