2 Samuel 22

Praise for God’s Deliverance

22Then David ^aspoke to the Lord the words of this song, on the day when the Lord had ^bdelivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. ²And he ^csaid:

^d“The Lord is my rock and my ^efortress and my deliverer;

³The God of my strength, ^fin whom I will trust;

My ^gshield and the ^hhorn ¹of my salvation,

My ⁱstronghold and my ^jrefuge;

My Savior, You save me from violence.

⁴I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised;

So shall I be saved from my enemies.

⁵“When the waves of death surrounded me,

The floods of ungodliness ²made me afraid.

⁶The ^ksorrows of Sheol surrounded me;

The snares of death confronted me.

⁷In my distress ^lI called upon the Lord,

And cried out to my God;

He ^mheard my voice from His temple,

And my cry entered His ears.

⁸“Then ⁿthe earth shook and trembled;

^oThe foundations of ³heaven quaked and were shaken,

Because He was angry.

⁹Smoke went up from His nostrils,

And devouring ^pfire from His mouth;

Coals were kindled by it.

¹⁰He ^qbowed the heavens also, and came down

With ^rdarkness under His feet.

¹¹He rode upon a cherub, and flew;

And He ⁴was seen ^supon the wings of the wind.

¹²He made ^tdarkness canopies around Him,

Dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

¹³From the brightness before Him

Coals of fire were kindled.

¹⁴“The Lord ^uthundered from heaven,

And the Most High uttered His voice.

¹⁵He sent out ^varrows and scattered them;

Lightning bolts, and He vanquished them.

¹⁶Then the channels of the sea ^wwere seen,

The foundations of the world were uncovered,

At the ^xrebuke of the Lord,

At the blast of the breath of His nostrils.

¹⁷“He ^ysent from above, He took me,

He drew me out of many waters.

¹⁸He delivered me from my strong enemy,

From those who hated me;

For they were too strong for me.

¹⁹They confronted me in the day of my calamity,

But the Lord was my ^zsupport.

^20aHe also brought me out into a broad place;

He delivered me because He ^bdelighted in me.

²¹“The ^cLord rewarded me according to my righteousness;

According to the ^dcleanness of my hands

He has recompensed me.

²²For I have ^ekept the ways of the Lord,

And have not wickedly departed from my God.

²³For all His ^fjudgments were before me;

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

²⁴I was also ^gblameless before Him,

And I kept myself from my iniquity.

²⁵Therefore ^hthe Lord has ⁵recompensed me according to my righteousness,

According to ⁶my cleanness in His eyes.

²⁶“With ⁱthe merciful You will show Yourself merciful;

With a blameless man You will show Yourself blameless;

²⁷With the pure You will show Yourself pure;

And ^jwith the devious You will show Yourself shrewd.

²⁸You will save the ^khumble ⁷people;

But Your eyes are on ^lthe haughty, that You may bring them down.

²⁹“For You are my ^mlamp, O Lord;

The Lord shall enlighten my darkness.

³⁰For by You I can run against a troop;

By my God I can leap over a ⁿwall.

³¹As for God, ^oHis way is perfect;

^pThe word of the Lord is proven;

He is a shield to all who trust in Him.

³²“For ^qwho is God, except the Lord?

And who is a rock, except our God?

³³⁸God is my ^rstrength and power,

And He ^smakes ⁹my way ^tperfect.

³⁴He makes ¹my feet ^ulike the feet of deer,

And ^vsets me on my high places.

³⁵He teaches my hands ²to make war,

So that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

³⁶“You have also given me the shield of Your salvation;

Your gentleness has made me great.

³⁷You ^wenlarged my path under me;

So my feet did not slip.

³⁸“I have pursued my enemies and destroyed them;

Neither did I turn back again till they were destroyed.

³⁹And I have destroyed them and wounded them,

So that they could not rise;

They have fallen ^xunder my feet.

⁴⁰For You have ^yarmed me with strength for the battle;

You have ³subdued under me ^zthose who rose against me.

⁴¹You have also ⁴given me the ^anecks of my enemies,

So that I destroyed those who hated me.

⁴²They looked, but there was none to save;

Even ^bto the Lord, but He did not answer them.

⁴³Then I beat them as fine ^cas the dust of the earth;

I trod them ^dlike dirt in the streets,

And I ⁵spread them out.

⁴⁴“You ^ehave also delivered me from the ⁶strivings of my people;

You have kept me as the ^fhead of the nations.

^gA people I have not known shall serve me.

⁴⁵The foreigners submit to me;

As soon as they hear, they obey me.

⁴⁶The foreigners fade away,

And ⁷come frightened ^hfrom their hideouts.

⁴⁷“The Lord lives!

Blessed be my Rock!

Let God be exalted,

The ⁱRock of my salvation!

⁴⁸It is God who avenges me,

And ^jsubdues the peoples under me;

⁴⁹He delivers me from my enemies.

You also lift me up above those who rise against me;

You have delivered me from the ^kviolent man.

⁵⁰Therefore I will give thanks to You, O Lord, among ^lthe Gentiles,

And sing praises to Your ^mname.

⁵¹“He ⁿis the tower of salvation to His king,

And shows mercy to His ^oanointed,

To David and ^phis descendants forevermore.”