2 Samuel 22:28

Webster's Bible (1833)

The afflicted people you will save; But your eyes are on the haughty, that you may bring them down.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאֶת־עַ֥ם עָנִ֖י תּוֹשִׁ֑יעַ וְעֵינֶ֥יךָ עַל־רָמִ֖ים תַּשְׁפִּֽיל׃

Transliteration

And ʾēt-ʿam ʿānî tôšîaʿ; and ʿênêkā against-rāmîm tašpîl.

Grammar Details

• *ʾēt*: direct object marker
• *ʿam*: masculine noun - people
• *ʿānî*: masculine adjective - afflicted
• *tôšîaʿ*: Hiphil imperfect 2ms - you save
• *ʿênêkā*: feminine dual noun with 2ms suffix - your eyes
• *rāmîm*: masculine plural adjective - haughty
• *tašpîl*: Hiphil imperfect 2ms - you bring low

Word Meanings

• *ʿānî*: afflicted, poor, humble
• *tôšîaʿ*: save, deliver, rescue
• *rāmîm*: haughty, proud, lofty
• *tašpîl*: bring low, humble, abase

Referenced Verses

• Ps 72:12-13 : 12 For he will deliver the needy when he cries; The poor, who has no helper. 13 He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls of the needy.
• Isa 5:15 : 15 So man is brought low, Mankind is humbled, And the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;
• Exod 3:7-8 : 7 Yahweh said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. 8 I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
• Isa 2:11-12 : 11 The lofty looks of man will be brought low, The haughtiness of men will be bowed down, And Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day. 12 For there will be a day of Yahweh of Hosts for all that is proud and haughty, And for all that is lifted up; And it shall be brought low:
• Isa 2:17 : 17 The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, And the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; And Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.
• Exod 9:14-17 : 14 For this time I will send all my plagues against your heart, against your officials, and against your people; that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth. 15 For now I would have put forth my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth; 16 but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth; 17 as you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won't let them go.
• Exod 10:3 : 3 Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, "This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
• Exod 18:11 : 11 Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the thing in which they dealt arrogantly against them."
• Job 40:11-12 : 11 Pour forth the fury of your anger. Look on everyone who is proud, and bring him low. 12 Look on everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.
• Ps 12:5 : 5 "Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise," says Yahweh; "I will set him in safety from those who malign him."
• Ps 138:6 : 6 For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; But the proud, he knows from afar.
• Ps 140:12 : 12 I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, And justice for the needy.
• Prov 21:4 : 4 A high look, and a proud heart, The lamp of the wicked, is sin.
• Isa 37:23 : 23 Whom have you defied and blasphemed? and against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? [even] against the Holy One of Israel.
• Isa 37:28-29 : 28 But I know your sitting down, and your going out, and your coming in, and your raging against me. 29 Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance is come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
• Isa 61:1-3 : 1 The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble; he has sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening [of the prison] to those who are bound; 2 to proclaim the year of Yahweh's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn; 3 to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.
• Isa 63:9 : 9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
• Dan 4:37 : 37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
• Matt 5:3 : 3 "Blessed are the poor in spirit, For theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
• Jas 4:6-7 : 6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble." 7 Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
• 1 Pet 5:5-6 : 5 Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble." 6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time;