2 Samuel 22:5
For the pangs of death haue compassed me: the floods of vngodlinesse haue made mee afrayd.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;
In Context
4I will call on the Lord, who is worthy to be praysed: so shall I be safe from mine enemies.
6The sorowes of the graue compassed mee about: the snares of death ouertooke mee.
Cross References
Psalms 42:8The Lord will graunt his louing kindenesse in the day, and in the night shall I sing of him, euen a prayer vnto the God of my life.
Psalms 93:3The floodes haue lifted vp, O Lord: the floodes haue lifted vp their voyce: the floods lift vp their waues.
Jeremiah 46:7Who is this, that commeth vp, as a flood, whose waters are mooued like the riuers?
1 Thessalonians 5:3For when they shall say, Peace, and safetie, then shall come vpon them sudden destruction, as the trauaile vpon a woman with childe, and they shall not escape,
Revelation 17:1Then there came one of the seuen Angels, which had the seuen vials, and talked with me, saying vnto me, Come: I will shewe thee the damnation of the great whore that sitteth vpon many waters,
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 →