Revised Webster's Bible
2 Samuel 22:28
28And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thy eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest 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
26With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt show thyself upright. 27With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; and with the perverse thou wilt contend. And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thy eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down. 29For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness. 30For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall.
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וְאֶת־עַ֥ם עָנִ֖י תּוֹשִׁ֑יעַ וְעֵינֶ֖יךָ עַל־רָמִ֥ים תַּשְׁפִּֽיל׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for 2 Samuel 22:28
- Exodus 3:7And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
- Psalms 12:5For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
- Psalms 72:12For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.
- Psalms 140:12I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
- Isaiah 61:1The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings to the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
- Isaiah 63:9In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
- Matthew 5:3Blessedare the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
- Exodus 9:14For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thy heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth.
- Exodus 10:3And Moses and Aaron came in to Pharaoh, and said to him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.
- Exodus 18:11Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: for in the thing in which they dealt proudly he was above them.
- Job 40:11Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.
- Psalms 138:6Though the LORDishigh, yet hath he respect to the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.
- Proverbs 21:4An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.
- Isaiah 2:11The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be abased, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
- Isaiah 5:15And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be abased:
- Isaiah 37:23Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted thy eyes on high? even against 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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