2 Samuel 22:28
You will save the afflicted people, but your eyes are on the arrogant, that you may bring them down.
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27With the pure you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
29For you are my lamp, LORD. The LORD will light up my darkness.
Cross References
Exodus 3:7The LORD said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
Exodus 10:3Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to 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, that they may serve me.
Job 40:11Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.
Psalms 72:12For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.
Psalms 140:12I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.
Isaiah 2:11The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the arrogance of men will be bowed down, and 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 →