2 Samuel 22

1 And David sang this song to the LORD on the day the LORD had delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.

2 He said: “The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer.

3 My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation. My stronghold, my refuge, and my Savior, You save me from violence.

4 I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; so shall I be saved from my enemies.

5 For the waves of death engulfed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.

6 The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.

7 In my distress I called upon the LORD; I cried out to my God. And from His temple He heard my voice, and my cry for help reached His ears.

8 Then the earth shook and quaked; the foundations of the heavens trembled; they were shaken because He burned with anger.

9 Smoke rose from His nostrils, and consuming fire came from His mouth; glowing coals blazed forth.

10 He parted the heavens and came down with dark clouds beneath His feet.

11 He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.

12 He made darkness a canopy around Him, a gathering of water and thick clouds.

13 From the brightness of His presence coals of fire blazed forth.

14 The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded.

15 He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them.

16 The channels of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed at the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of His nostrils.

17 He reached down from on high and took hold of me; He drew me out of deep waters.

18 He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from foes too mighty for me.

19 They confronted me in my day of calamity, but the LORD was my support.

20 He brought me out into the open; He rescued me because He delighted in me.

21 The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.

22 For I have kept the ways of the LORD and have not wickedly departed from my God.

23 For all His ordinances are before me; I have not disregarded His statutes.

24 And I have been blameless before Him and kept myself from iniquity.

25 So the LORD has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in His sight.

26 To the faithful You show Yourself faithful, to the blameless You show Yourself blameless;

27 to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.

28 You save an afflicted people, but Your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.

29 For You, O LORD, are my lamp; the LORD lights up my darkness.

30 For in You I can charge an army; with my God I can scale a wall.

31 As for God, His way is perfect; the word of the LORD is flawless. He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.

32 For who is God besides the LORD? And who is the Rock except our God?

33 God is my strong fortress, and He makes my way clear.

34 He makes my feet like those of a deer and stations me upon the heights.

35 He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

36 You have given me Your shield of salvation, and Your gentleness exalts me.

37 You broaden the path beneath me so that my ankles do not give way.

38 I pursued my enemies and destroyed them; I did not turn back until they were consumed.

39 I devoured and crushed them so they could not rise; they have fallen under my feet.

40 You have armed me with strength for battle; You have subdued my foes beneath me.

41 You have made my enemies retreat before me; I destroyed those who hated me.

42 They looked, but there was no one to save them—to the LORD, but He did not answer.

43 I ground them as the dust of the earth; I crushed and trampled them like mud in the streets.

44 You have delivered me from the strife of my people; You have preserved me as the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.

45 Foreigners cower before me; when they hear me, they obey me.

46 Foreigners lose heart and come trembling from their strongholds.

47 The LORD lives, and blessed be my Rock! And may God, the Rock of my salvation, be exalted—

48 the God who avenges me and brings down nations beneath me,

49 who frees me from my enemies. You exalt me above my foes; You rescue me from violent men.

50 Therefore I will praise You, O LORD, among the nations; I will sing praises to Your name.

51 Great salvation He brings to His king. He shows loving devotion to His anointed, to David and his descendants forever.”

1 ¶ And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day [that] the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:

2 ¶ And he said, The LORD [is] my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;

3 The God of my rock; in him will I trust: [he is] my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.

4 I will call on the LORD, [who is] worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

5 When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;

6 The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;

7 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.

8 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.

9 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness [was] under his feet.

11 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind.

12 And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, [and] thick clouds of the skies.

13 Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.

14 The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.

15 And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.

16 And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

17 He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;

18 He delivered me from my strong enemy, [and] from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.

19 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.

20 He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

21 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

22 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

23 For all his judgments [were] before me: and [as for] his statutes, I did not depart from them.

24 I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity.

25 Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.

26 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, [and] with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.

27 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.

28 And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes [are] upon the haughty, [that] thou mayest bring [them] down.

29 For thou [art] my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.

30 For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall.

31 [As for] God, his way [is] perfect; the word of the LORD [is] tried: he [is] a buckler to all them that trust in him.

32 For who [is] God, save the LORD? and who [is] a rock, save our God?

33 God [is] my strength [and] power: and he maketh my way perfect.

34 He maketh my feet like hinds' [feet]: and setteth me upon my high places.

35 He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.

36 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great.

37 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip.

38 I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them.

39 And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.

40 For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.

41 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.

42 They looked, but [there was] none to save; [even] unto the LORD, but he answered them not.

43 Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, [and] did spread them abroad.

44 Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me [to be] head of the heathen: a people [which] I knew not shall serve me.

45 Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me.

46 Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.

47 The LORD liveth; and blessed [be] my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.

48 It [is] God that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people under me,

49 And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.

50 Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name.

51 [He is] the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.

1 And David spake the words of this song before the LORD in the days when the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul, saying:

2 The LORD is my rock, and my burgundy my deliverer.

3 God is my refuge, in whom I trust, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my protection and my refuge, my Savior, who saves me from iniquity.

4 I will praise the LORD, and call upon him, and I shall be delivered from mine enemies.

5 For the pains of death had compassed me about, and the rivers of Belial terrified me.

6 The bands of hell compassed me about, and the cords of death overwhelmed me.

7 When I am afraid, I call upon the LORD, and cry unto my God; and he heareth my voice from his temple, and my cry cometh before him in his ears.

8 The earth quaked and was moved; the foundations of heaven were moved and shook, because he was wroth.

9 Vapour went up from his nostrils, and fire consumed from his mouth, and there was lightning therefrom.

10 He bowed the heavens, and descended, and darkness was under his feet.

11 And he rode upon the cherub, and flew; and he floated upon the wings of the wind.

12 His tent about him was dark, and black thick clouds.

13 From the brightness before him it burned with lightnings.

14 The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High let out his thunder.

15 He shot forth his beams, and scattered them; he made lightning, and terrified them.

16 And there were showers of water, and the ground was covered with the reproach of the LORD, and with the breath of his nostrils, and with the snorting of his nostrils.

17 He sent from on high, and took me, and drew me up out of great waters.

18 He delivered me from my strong enemies, from my haters that were too mighty for me,

19 Which overcame me in the time of my calamity. And the LORD became my confidence.

20 He brought me out into the room; he plucked me out, because he had a desire for me.

21 The LORD hath dealt well with me according to my righteousness: he hath rewarded me according to the cleanness of my hands.

22 For I keep the ways of the LORD, and am not ungodly against my God.

23 For all his statutes have I in view, and his commandments will I not cast away;

24 But I am without change before him, and keep myself from sins.

25 Therefore the LORD rewardeth me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in his sight.

26 With the saints thou art holy; with the pious thou art pious,

27 With the pure you are pure, and with the perverse you are perverse.

28 For thou helpest the wretched people, and with thine eyes thou bringest low them that are high.

29 For thou, O LORD, art my lamp. The LORD maketh light my darkness.

30 For with thee I can smite warriors, and leap over the walls with my God.

31 God's ways are without change, the words of the LORD are pure: he is a shield unto all them that put their trust in him.

32 For is there a God without the LORD? And where is a refuge without our God?

33 God strengthens me with power and shows me a way without change.

34 He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me on my high place.

35 He hath taught my hands to fight, and my arm to draw the bow of brass.

36 And givest me the shield of thy salvation. And when thou humblest me, thou makest me great.

37 thou makest room to walk under me, that my ankles slip not.

38 I will pursue after mine enemies, and destroy them; and will not return until I have destroyed them.

39 I will kill them, and break them in pieces, and they shall not withstand me: they shall fall under my feet.

40 Thou canst arm me with strength to battle; thou canst cast under me them that set themselves against me.

41 Thou givest me mine enemies to flee, that I may destroy them that hate me.

42 They love one another, but there is no helper; to the LORD, but he answereth them not.

43 I will pound them as the dust of the earth; as the dung of the street will I scatter and scatter them.

44 Thou savest me from the contentious people, and keepest me for a head among the heathen: a people that I knew not serve me.

45 The strange children have feared me, and obeyed me with obedient ears.

46 the strange children are languishing and wriggling in their bonds.

47 The LORD liveth; and blessed be my stronghold, and let God, the stronghold of my salvation, be exalted.

48 The GOD who gives me vengeance and casts the nations under me.

49 He delivereth me out of mine enemies. Thou liftest me up from them that set themselves against me: thou savest me from the wicked.

50 Therefore will I give thee thanks, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praise unto thy name. And sing praise unto thy name,

51 Who hath shewed great salvation unto his king, and his anointed David, and his seed for ever.