2 Samuel 22

22And David spake ^aunto 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: ^2bAnd he said,

The Lord is ^cmy rock, and ^dmy fortress, and my deliverer;

³The God ^eof my rock; ^fin him will I trust:

He is my ^gshield, and the ^hhorn of my salvation, my ⁱhigh tower, and my ^krefuge,

My saviour; thou savest me from violence.

⁴I will call on the Lord, ^lwho is worthy to be praised:

So shall I be saved from mine enemies.

⁵When the ^||waves of death compassed me,

The floods of ^†ungodly men made me afraid;

⁶The ^||sorrows of hell compassed me about;

The snares of death prevented me;

⁷In my distress ^mI called upon the Lord,

And cried to my God:

And he did hear my voice out of his temple,

And my cry ⁿdid enter into his ears.

⁸Then ^othe earth shook and trembled;

^pThe foundations of heaven moved

And shook, because he was wroth.

⁹There went up a smoke ^†out of his nostrils,

And fire out of his mouth devoured:

Coals were kindled by it.

¹⁰He ^qbowed the heavens also, and came down;

And ^rdarkness was under his feet.

¹¹And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly:

And he was seen ^supon the wings of the wind.

¹²And he made darkness ^tpavilions round about him,

^†Dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

¹³Through the brightness before him

Were coals of fire kindled.

¹⁴The Lord ^uthundered from heaven,

And the most High uttered his voice.

¹⁵And he sent out ^xarrows, and scattered them;

Lightning, and ^ydiscomfited them.

¹⁶And the channels of the sea appeared,

The foundations of the world were discovered,

At the ^zrebuking of the Lord,

At the blast of the breath of his ^||nostrils.

^17aHe sent from above, he took me;

^bHe drew me out of ^||many waters;

^18cHe delivered me from my strong enemy,

And from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.

¹⁹They ^dprevented me in the day of my calamity:

But the Lord was my stay.

²⁰He brought me forth also ^einto a large place:

He delivered me, because he ^fdelighted in me.

^21gThe Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness:

According to the ^hcleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

²²For I have ⁱkept the ways of the Lord,

And have not wickedly departed from my God.

²³For all his ^jjudgments were before me:

And as for his statutes, I did not depart from them.

²⁴I was also ^kupright ^†before him,

And have kept myself from mine iniquity.

²⁵Therefore ^lthe Lord hath recompensed me according to my righteousness;

According to my cleanness ^†in his eye sight.

²⁶With ^mthe merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful,

And with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.

²⁷With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure;

And with the froward thou wilt ^||shew thyself unsavoury.

²⁸And the ⁿafflicted people thou wilt save:

But thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.

²⁹For thou art my ^||lamp, O Lord:

And the Lord will lighten my darkness.

³⁰For by thee I have ^||run through a troop:

By my God have I leaped over a wall.

³¹As for God, his way is perfect;

^oThe word of the Lord is ^||tried:

He is ^pa buckler to all them that trust in him.

³²For ^qwho is God, save the Lord?

And who is a rock, save our God?

³³God is my ^rstrength and power:

And he ^†maketh my way ^sperfect.

³⁴He ^†maketh my feet ^tlike hinds’ feet:

And setteth me ^uupon my high places.

^35xHe teacheth my hands ^†to war;

So that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.

³⁶Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation:

And thy gentleness hath ^†made me great.

³⁷Thou hast enlarged ^ymy steps under me;

So that my ^†feet did not slip.

³⁸I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them;

And turned not again until I had consumed them.

³⁹And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise:

Yea, they are fallen under my feet.

⁴⁰For thou hast ^zgirded me with strength to battle:

^aThem that rose up against me hast thou ^†subdued under me.

⁴¹Thou hast also given me the ^bnecks of mine enemies,

That I might destroy them that hate me.

^42cThey looked, but there was none to save;

Even unto the Lord, but he answered them not.

⁴³Then ^ddid I beat them as small ^eas the dust of the earth,

I did stamp them ^fas the mire of the street, and ^gdid spread them abroad.

⁴⁴Thou also hast delivered me ^hfrom the strivings of my people,

ⁱThou hast kept me to be head of the heathen:

A ^jpeople 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.

⁴⁶Strangers shall fade away,

And they ^kshall be afraid ^lout of their close places.

⁴⁷The Lord liveth; and blessed be my rock;

And exalted be the God of the ^mrock of my salvation.

⁴⁸It is God that ^†avengeth me,

And that ⁿbringeth down the people under me,

⁴⁹And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies:

^oThou also hast lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me:

Thou hast delivered me from the ^pviolent man.

^50qTherefore I will give thanks unto thee, O Lord, among the heathen,

And I will sing praises unto thy name.

⁵¹He is the tower of ^rsalvation for his king:

And sheweth mercy to his ^sanointed,

Unto David, and ^tto his seed for evermore.