2 Samuel 22:5
When the breakers of death compassed me, The streams of the worthless terrify me,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;
In Context
4The Praised One, I call Jehovah: And from mine enemies I am saved.
6The cords of Sheol have surrounded me, Before me have been the snares of death.
Cross References
Psalms 42:8By day Jehovah commandeth His kindness, And by night a song [is] with me, A prayer to the God of my life.
Psalms 93:3Floods have lifted up, O Jehovah, Floods have lifted up their voice, Floods lift up their breakers.
Jeremiah 46:7Who is this? as a flood he cometh up, As rivers do his waters shake themselves!
1 Thessalonians 5:3for when they may say, Peace and surety, then sudden destruction doth stand by them, as the travail [doth] her who is with child, and they shall not escape;
Revelation 17:1And there came one of the seven messengers, who were having the seven vials, and he spake with me, saying to me, 'Come, I will shew to thee the judgment of the great whore, who is sitting upon the 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 →