2nd Samuel Chapter 22 verse 26 Holy Bible
With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful; With the perfect man thou wilt show thyself perfect;
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On him who has mercy you will have mercy; to the upright you will be upright;
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With the gracious thou dost shew thyself gracious; With the upright man thou dost shew thyself upright;
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With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt show thyself upright.
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With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt show thyself upright.
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With the merciful you will show yourself merciful; With the perfect man you will show yourself perfect;
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With the kind Thou shewest Thyself kind, With the perfect man Thou shewest Thyself perfect,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 26-28. - "With the pious man thou wilt show thyself pious;With the perfect man thou wilt show thyself perfect;With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure;And with the crooked thou wilt show thyself perverse.And the afflicted people thou wilt save;And thine eyes are upon the haughty, to bring them down." Having affirmed his integrity, and that God therefore had pleasure in him and rewarded him, David now asserts that this is the unfailing rule of God's dealings with men. The general current of their lives is so ordered as to be in harmony with their characters. It is not by luck or good fortune that prosperity attends the righteous, nor is it by chance that things go awry with the fraudulent, but it is by the law of God's providence. Pious. The Hebrew word means "pious" in the original sense of the word, which includes kindness to men as well as love to God. Perverse. In the Authorized Version "unsavoury." Really it is the same word as that used in Psalm 18:26, and signifies "thou wilt make thyself twisted," only the form is archaic, as is the case with some other words here. Experience confirms the psalmist's verdict. For constantly a strange perversity of fortune and an untowardness of events are the lot of those whose hearts are crooked. Afflicted. The word in the original includes the idea of humility, and so leads naturally on to the thought of the abasement of the proud. In the psalm the somewhat harsh expression used here has been softened into the more easy phrase, "The haughty eyes thou wilt bring down."
