2 Samuel 22:1–19

And 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: 2 bAnd he said,

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

3  The 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.

4  I will call on the Lord, lwho 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 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.

8  Then othe earth shook and trembled;

pThe 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 qbowed the heavens also, and came down;

And rdarkness was under his feet.

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

And he was seen supon the wings of the wind.

12  And he made darkness tpavilions 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 uthundered from heaven,

And the most High uttered his voice.

15  And he sent out xarrows, and scattered them;

Lightning, and ydiscomfited them.

16  And 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.

17  aHe sent from above, he took me;

bHe drew me out of ||many waters;

18  cHe delivered me from my strong enemy,

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

19  They dprevented me in the day of my calamity:

But the Lord was my stay.