2 Samuel 22:8–20

⁸The earth^q trembled and quaked,^r

the foundations^s of the heavens^c shook;

they trembled because he was angry.

⁹Smoke rose from his nostrils;

consuming fire^t came from his mouth,

burning coals^u blazed out of it.

¹⁰He parted the heavens and came down;

dark clouds^v were under his feet.

¹¹He mounted the cherubim^w and flew;

he soared^d on the wings of the wind.^x

¹²He made darkness^y his canopy around him—

the dark^e rain clouds of the sky.

¹³Out of the brightness of his presence

bolts of lightning^z blazed forth.

¹⁴The Lord thundered^a from heaven;

the voice of the Most High resounded.

¹⁵He shot his arrows^b and scattered the enemy,

with great bolts of lightning he routed them.

¹⁶The valleys of the sea were exposed

and the foundations of the earth laid bare

at the rebuke^c of the Lord,

at the blast^d of breath from his nostrils.

¹⁷“He reached down from on high^e and took hold of me;

he drew^f me out of deep waters.

¹⁸He rescued^g me from my powerful enemy,

from my foes, who were too strong for me.

¹⁹They confronted me in the day of my disaster,

but the Lord was my support.^h

²⁰He brought me out into a spaciousⁱ place;

he rescued^j me because he delighted^k in me.^l