28 And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.

Other Translations of 2 Samuel 22:28

New International Version

28 You save the humble, but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them low.

English Standard Version

28 You save a humble people, but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.

The Message

28 You take the side of the down-and-out, but the stuck-up you take down a peg.

New King James Version

28 You will save the humble people; But Your eyes are on the haughty, that You may bring them down.

New Living Translation

28 You rescue the humble, but your eyes watch the proud and humiliate them.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on 2 Samuel 22:28

Chapter Contents

David's psalm of thanksgiving.

This chapter is a psalm of praise; we find it afterwards nearly as 2 Timothy 4:18. Those who receive signal mercies from God, ought to give him the glory. In the day that God delivered David, he sang this song. While the mercy is fresh, and we are most affected with it, let the thank-offering be brought, to be kindled with the fire of that affection. All his joys and hopes close, as all our hopes should do, in the great Redeemer.