I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised; So shall I be saved from my enemies.
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I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised; So shall I be saved from my enemies.
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I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
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Praised, I cry, is the LORD, and I am saved from mine enemies.
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Passages linked to 2 Samuel 22:4 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 18:3 I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised; and I am saved from my enemies.
- Psalms 116:2 Because he has turned his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live.
- Romans 10:13 For, “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
- Psalms 34:6 This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
- Psalms 48:1 Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.
- Psalms 50:15 Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
- Psalms 55:16 As for me, I will call on God. Yahweh will save me.
- Psalms 96:4 For Yahweh is great, and greatly to be praised! He is to be feared above all gods.
- Psalms 116:4 Then I called on Yahweh’s name: “Yahweh, I beg you, deliver my soul.”
- Psalms 116:13 I will take the cup of salvation, and call on Yahweh’s name.
- Revelation 5:12 saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who has been killed to receive the power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing!”
- Nehemiah 9:5 Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, “Stand up and bless Yahweh your God from everlasting to everlasting! Blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise!
- Psalms 56:9 Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call. I know this: that God is for me.
- Psalms 57:1-3 Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, until disaster has passed. I cry out to God Most High, to God who accomplishes my requests for me. He will send from heaven, and save me, he rebukes the one who is pursuing me. God will send out his loving kindness and his truth.
- Psalms 66:2 Sing to the glory of his name! Offer glory and praise!
- Psalms 106:2 Who can utter the mighty acts of Yahweh, or fully declare all his praise?
- Psalms 116:17 I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call on Yahweh’s name.
- Psalms 148:1-4 Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh from the heavens! Praise him in the heights! Praise him, all his angels! Praise him, all his army! Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you shining stars! Praise him, you heavens of heavens, you waters that are above the heavens.
- Revelation 4:11 “Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares…
The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me. See Gill on Psa 18:5.
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2 Samuel 22:7
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sa2 22:7In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried to my God:
and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears. See Gill on Psa 18:6.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 4. I will call … so shall I be…
4. I will call … so shall I be saved] Better, I called … and I was saved. The tenses are frequentative, describing David’s habitual experience of God’s readiness to answer prayer. This verse presents “the theme of the Psalm.”
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain God worthy to be praised.
God worthy to be praised.
The conjunction of ideas here is a little singular. "I will pray to the Lord, who is worthy to be praised. It may originate in the feeling that it is fitting that, when we seek new blessings from God, we should not be unmindful of those which he has already bestowed. Praise should accompany prayer. (see Php_4:6, "prayer... with thanksgiving Add that the subjects of praise are encouragements to prayer. In the act of praising him we are reminding ourselves of the strong reasons we have for hopefully seeking further mercies from him.
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I GOD IS WORTHY TO BE PRAISED. Not merely to be feared, entreated, strictly obeyed, and submitted to. He is worthy of thankful and rejoicing obedience and submission. It is not fitting that he should be served sullenly or silently; or that prayer to him should be as a cry of a slave to his master, or of one oppressed to his oppressor, or as a request for help addressed to a stranger. We should speak to him with the confidence and love which his relation to us and past goodness are fitted to inspire. One way of ensuring this is to blend praise with prayer.
II WHAT IT IS THAT RENDERS HIM WORTHY TO BE PRAISED. Some obtain praise who are not worthy of it in any measure; others, much more than they deserve. But God is worthy of and "exalted above all blessing and praise". (Neh_9:5) Whether we consider his nature, his regard for his creatures, his works or his gifts, we must feel that it is impossible to render him praise worthy of him. But to the utmost of our power we should praise him for:
1. His glorious perfections. Especially his infinite moral excellences his truth, holiness, righteousness, and love.
2. His wonderful works. In creation, providence, and grace.
3. Specially, his redeeming mercy. His kindness to us in Christ. The display of his perfections in the gift, the Person, and the work of our Lord and Saviour. The mercy he exercises in the forgiveness of sin, the admission of sinners into his family, and all the operations by which he brings his "many sons and daughters unto glory,". (Heb_2:10) The gift of the Holy Spirit for this purpose. The final bliss and glory.
4. The goodness of God to ourselves. Not forgetting that he is "worthy to be praised" for the commonest blessings we enjoy, as well as those distinguishing blessings which we receive as his children through faith in Christ. And not only for the blessings which give us pleasure, but for those which give us pain, but are bestowed that we may become in a greater measure "partakers of his holiness". (Heb_12:10)
III BY WHOM HE OUGHT TO BE PRAISED.
1. By all his creatures according to their capacity. All his inanimate and irrational creatures do praise him. Their existence, qualities, order, and (as to the living creatures) their happiness "show forth the excellences" of their Creator. "All thy works shall praise thee, O Lord". (Psa_145:10; comp. Psa 148:19:1-4) All intelligent beings ought to praise him; all the right minded of them do. Those who enjoy least of his bounty have much to thank him for, and often praise him more than those who enjoy most. We do not say that those who are suffering in hell the penalty due to their sins can be expected to praise him whose wrath abides so terribly upon them; although, if a somewhat fashionable doctrine be true, they have strong reasons for giving him thanks, since he is taking the wisest and best means to make them meet for the glory and joy in heaven which will at length be their portion!
2. Especially by his redeemed people. Who are the objects of his special regard and gracious operation, and to whom the work of praise on earth is peculiarly committed (Isa_43:21; 1Pe_2:9) On some accounts the redeemed and regenerate have more reason to give thanks to God than those who have never sinned.
They see On earth a bounty not indulged on high, And downward look for Heaven"s superior praise They sang Creation, for in that they shared: Creation"s great superior, man, is thine; Thine is redemption; they just gave the key, "Tis thine to raise and eternize the song. (Young.)
Nevertheless, angels do give thanks for redemption, and with good reason. For it is the work of the God whom they love; it enriches their conceptions of him; it enlarges their service of him; and it supremely and eternally blesses vast multitudes in whom they feel the deepest interest. It thus gratifies their desires, and adds to their wealth of knowledge, goodness, and happiness.
IV THE KIND AND DURATION OF THE PRAISE OF WHICH HE IS WORTHY.
1. The kind. Clearly the best possible; which is not necessarily that which is most poetical or most musical, though in these respects man should do his best. But that is best of all which comes from the heart, and from a heart fullest of admiration, adoration, love, and gratitude. Much which professes to be praise of God is heartless mockery.
2. The duration. Forever and ever. (Eph_3:21) While we have any being, in this world and the next. (Psa_145:1, 2 146:2) For, as God is everlasting, the reasons for praising him can never end. G.W.
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