2 Samuel 22:28
And the afflicted people you will save: but yours eyes are upon the haughty, that you may bring them down.
Updated King James Version
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In Context
27With the pure you will show yourself pure; and with the perverse you will show yourself unpleasing.
29For you are my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.
Cross References
Exodus 3:7And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
Exodus 10:3And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.
Job 40:11Cast abroad the rage of your wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and bring low him.
Psalms 72:12For he shall deliver the needy when he cries; the poor also, and him that has no helper.
Psalms 140:12I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
Isaiah 2:11The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone 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 →