New English Translation
2 Samuel 22:28
28You deliver oppressed people, but you watch the proud and bring them down.
2 Samuel 22:28 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.
- New International Version (NIV)You save the humble, but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them low.
- English Standard Version (ESV)You save a humble people, but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.
- New King James Version (NKJV)You will save the humble people; But Your eyes are on the haughty, that You may bring them down.
Context of 2 Samuel 22:28
26You prove to be loyal to one who is faithful; you prove to be trustworthy to one who is innocent. 27You prove to be reliable to one who is blameless, but you prove to be deceptive to one who is perverse. You deliver oppressed people, but you watch the proud and bring them down. 29Indeed, you are my lamp, Lord. The Lord illumines the darkness around me. 30Indeed,with your help I can charge against an army; by my God’s power I can jump over a wall.
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וְאֶת־עַ֥ם עָנִ֖י תּוֹשִׁ֑יעַ וְעֵינֶ֖יךָ עַל־רָמִ֥ים תַּשְׁפִּֽיל׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for 2 Samuel 22:28
- Exodus 3:7The Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt. I have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
- Psalms 12:5“Because of the violence done to the oppressed, because of the painful cries of the needy, I will spring into action,” says the Lord. “I will provide the safety they so desperately desire.”
- Psalms 72:12For he will rescue the needy when they cry out for help, and the oppressed who have no defender.
- Psalms 140:12I know that the Lord defends the cause of the oppressed and vindicates the poor.
- Isaiah 61:1The spirit of the sovereign Lord is upon me, because the Lord has chosen me. He has commissioned me to encourage the poor, to help the brokenhearted, to decree the release of captives, and the freeing of prisoners,
- Isaiah 63:9Through all that they suffered, he suffered too. The messenger sent from his very presence delivered them. In his love and mercy he protected them; he lifted them up and carried them throughout ancient times.
- Matthew 5:3“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them.
- Exodus 9:14For this time I will send all my plagues on your very self and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.
- Exodus 10:3So Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh and told him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: ‘How long do you refuse to humble yourself before me? Release my people so that they may serve me!
- Exodus 18:11Now I know that the Lord is greater than all the gods, for in the thing in which they dealt proudly against them he has destroyed them.”
- Job 40:11Scatter abroad the abundance of your anger. Look at every proud man and bring him low;
- Psalms 138:6Though the Lord is exalted, he takes note of the lowly, and recognizes the proud from far away.
- Proverbs 21:4Haughty eyes and a proud heart – the agricultural product of the wicked is sin.
- Isaiah 2:11Proud men will be brought low, arrogant men will be humiliated; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
- Isaiah 5:15Men will be humiliated, they will be brought low; the proud will be brought low.
- Isaiah 37:23Whom have you taunted and hurled insults at? At whom have you shouted and looked so arrogantly? At the Holy One of Israel!
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Commentaries on 2 Samuel 22
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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