2 Samuel 22:28

Thus thou wilt saue the poore people: but thine eyes are vpon the hautie to humble them.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.

In Context

27With the pure thou wilt shewe thy selfe pure, and with the frowarde thou wilt shew thy selfe frowarde.

29Surely thou art my light, O Lord: and the Lord will lighten my darkenes.

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Cross References

Exodus 3:7Then the Lord said, I haue surely seene the trouble of my people, which are in Egypt, and haue heard their crie, because of their taskemasters: for I knowe their sorowes.

Exodus 10:3Then came Moses and Aaron vnto Pharaoh, and they said vnto him, Thus saith the Lord God of the Ebrewes, Howe long wilt thou refuse to humble thy selfe before me? Let my people goe, that they may serue me.

Job 40:11Behold now, his strength is in his loynes, and his force is in the nauil of his belly.

Psalms 72:12For he shall deliuer the poore when he cryeth: the needie also, and him that hath no helper.

Psalms 140:12I know that the Lord will auenge the afflicted, and iudge the poore.

Isaiah 2:11The hie looke of man shall be humbled, and the loftinesse of men shalbe abased, and the Lord onely shall 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 →

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