2 Samuel 22:28
And the poor people Thou dost save, And Thine eyes on the high causest to fall.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
27With the pure Thou shewest Thyself pure, And with the perverse Thou shewest Thyself a wrestler.
29For Thou [art] my lamp, O Jehovah, And Jehovah doth lighten my darkness.
Cross References
Exodus 3:7And Jehovah saith, 'I have certainly seen the affliction of My people who [are] in Egypt, and their cry I have heard, because of its exactors, for I have known its pains;
Exodus 10:3And Moses cometh in — Aaron also — unto Pharaoh, and they say unto him, 'Thus said Jehovah, God of the Hebrews, Until when hast thou refused to be humbled at My presence? send My people away, and they serve Me,
Job 40:11Scatter abroad the wrath of thine anger, And see every proud one, and make him low.
Psalms 72:12For he delivereth the needy who crieth, And the poor when he hath no helper,
Psalms 140:12I have known that Jehovah doth execute The judgment of the afflicted, The judgment of the needy.
Isaiah 2:11The haughty eyes of man have been humbled, And bowed down hath been the loftiness of men, And set on high hath Jehovah alone been 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 →