2 Samuel 22:28

28 ¹You save a humble people, ²but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.

2 Samuel 22:28 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 22:28

And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes [are]
upon the haughty, [that] thou mayest bring [them] down.
] (See Gill on Psalms 18:27).

2 Samuel 22:28 In-Context

26 "With the merciful you show yourself merciful; with the blameless man you show yourself blameless;

27 with the purified you deal purely, and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.

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

29 For you are my lamp, O LORD, and my God lightens my darkness.

30 For by you I can run against a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall.

Cross References

• 1. [Psalms 72:12, 13]
• 2. [Isa. 2:11, 12, 17; Luke 1:51]