5 The waves of death swirled about me; the torrents of destruction overwhelmed me.
5 When the waves
5 "For the waves of death encompassed me, the torrents of destruction assailed me;
5 The waves of death crashed over me, devil waters rushed over me.
5 "When the waves of death surrounded me, The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
5 "The waves of death overwhelmed me; floods of destruction swept over me.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on 2 Samuel 22:5
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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.