2 Samuel 22:5
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New International Version (©1984)
"The waves of death swirled about me; the torrents of destruction overwhelmed me.

New Living Translation (©2007)
"The waves of death overwhelmed me; floods of destruction swept over me.

English Standard Version (©2001)
“For the waves of death encompassed me, the torrents of destruction assailed me;

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"For the waves of death encompassed me; The torrents of destruction overwhelmed me;

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The waves of death had surrounded me. The torrents of destruction had overwhelmed me.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
When the waves of death surrounded me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;

American King James Version
When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;

American Standard Version
For the waves of death compassed me; The floods of ungodliness made me afraid:

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the pangs of death have sur rounded me: the floods of Belial have made me afraid.

Darby Bible Translation
For the waves of death encompassed me, Torrents of Belial made me afraid.

English Revised Version
For the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

Webster's Bible Translation
When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly-men made me afraid;

World English Bible
For the waves of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

Young's Literal Translation
When the breakers of death compassed me, The streams of the worthless terrify me,

Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

When the waves of death compassed me - Though in a primary sense many of these things belong to David, yet generally and fully they belong to the Messiah alone.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. See Gill on Psalm 18:4.


Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament

5 For breakers of death had compassed me,

Streams of wickedness terrified me.

6 Cords of hell had girt me about,

Snares of death overtook me.

7 In my distress I called Jehovah,

And to my God Icalled;

And He heard my voice out of His temple,

And my crying came into His ears.

David had often been in danger of death, most frequently at the time when he was pursued by Saul, but also in Absalom's conspiracy, and even in several wars (cf. 2 Samuel 21:16). All these dangers, out of which the Lord delivered him, and not merely those which originated with Saul, are included in 2 Samuel 22:5, 2 Samuel 22:6. The figure "breakers or waves of death" is analogous to that of the "streams of Belial." His distress is represented in both of them under the image of violent floods of water. In the psalm we find מות חבלי, "snares of death," as in Psalm 116:3, death being regarded as a hunger with a net and snare (cf. Psalm 91:3): this does not answer to well to the parallel נחלי, and therefore is not so good, since שׁאול חבלי follows immediately. בליּעל (Belial), uselessness in a moral sense, or worthlessness. The meaning "mischief," or injury in a physical sense, which many expositors give to the word in this passage on account of the parallel "death," cannot be grammatically sustained. Belial was afterwards adopted as a name for the devil (2 Corinthians 6:15). Streams of wickedness are calamities that proceed from wickedness, or originate with worthless men. קדּם, to come to meet with a hostile intention, i.e., to fall upon (vid., Job 30:27). היכל, the temple out of which Jehovah heard him, was the heavenly abode of God, as in Psalm 11:4; for, according to 2 Samuel 22:8., God came down from heaven to help him.


Geneva Study Bible

When the {c} waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;

(c) As David (who was the figure of Christ) was by God's power delivered from all dangers: so Christ and his Church will overcome most grievous dangers, tyranny and death.


King James Translators' Notes

waves: or, pangs

ungodly...: Heb. Belial


Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

22:1-51 David's psalm of thanksgiving. - This chapter is a psalm of praise; we find it afterwards nearly as Ps 18. They that trust God in the way of duty, shall find him a present help in their greatest dangers: David did so. Remarkable preservations should be particularly mentioned in our praises. We shall never be delivered from all enemies till we get to heaven. God will preserve all his people, 2Ti 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.


Luke 21:20 "When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you will know that its desolation is near.
Psalm 69:14 Rescue me from the mire, do not let me sink; deliver me from those who hate me, from the deep waters.
Psalm 69:15 Do not let the floodwaters engulf me or the depths swallow me up or the pit close its mouth over me.
Psalm 93:4 Mightier than the thunder of the great waters, mightier than the breakers of the sea--the LORD on high is mighty.
Jonah 2:3 You hurled me into the deep, into the very heart of the seas, and the currents swirled about me; all your waves and breakers swept over me.

Afraid Assailed Belial Compassed Death Destruction Encompassed Evil Fear Floods Overwhelmed Perdition Round Seas Streams Surrounded Swirled Terrify Torrents Ungodliness Ungodly Waves Worthless


When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;

waves. or, pangs 1Th 5:3

the floods Ps 18:4 69:14,15 93:3,4 Isa 59:19 Jer 46:7,8 Re 12:15,16 17:1,15

ungodly men [heb] Belial

2 Samuel Chapter 22 Verse 5

Alphabetical: about death destruction encompassed For me of overwhelmed swirled The torrents waves

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