A moment in scripture
2 Samuel 22:7
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In 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.
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The surrounding passage
- 2 Samuel 22:5
When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;
- 2 Samuel 22:6
The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
- 2 Samuel 22:8
Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.
- 2 Samuel 22:9
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.