2 Samuel 22:28 - Printer Friendly

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

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

NASB: And You save an afflicted people; But Your eyes are on the haughty whom You humiliate.

CSB: You rescue an oppressed people, but your eyes are set against the proud— you humble them.

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

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

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

Second Samuel continues the story of David, who will become king over Judah. The other tribes of Israel are resistant, eventually sparking a civil war. David wins and makes Jerusalem his capital. Early success is followed by moral failure and controversy in David's house. The book of 1 Kings will begin by detailing David's decline and death.

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