2 Samuel 22:7

In mine adversity I call Jehovah, And unto my God I call, And He heareth from His temple my voice, And my cry [is] in His ears,

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.

In Context

6The cords of Sheol have surrounded me, Before me have been the snares of death.

8And shake and tremble doth the earth, Foundations of the heavens are troubled, And are shaken, for He hath wrath!

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Cross References

1 Kings 8:28'Then thou hast turned unto the prayer of Thy servant, and unto his supplication, O Jehovah my God, to hearken unto the cry and unto the prayer which Thy servant is praying before Thee to-day,

Psalms 27:4One [thing] I asked of Jehovah — it I seek. My dwelling in the house of Jehovah, All the days of my life, To look on the pleasantness of Jehovah, And to inquire in His temple.

Psalms 34:15The eyes of Jehovah [are] unto the righteous, And His ears unto their cry.

Psalms 116:4And in the name of Jehovah I call: I pray Thee, O Jehovah, deliver my soul,

Jonah 2:4And I — I said: I have been cast out from before Thine eyes, (Yet I add to look unto Thy holy temple!)

Habakkuk 2:20And Jehovah [is] in His holy temple, Be silent before Him, all the earth!

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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