2 Samuel 22
1 And David spoke to the Lord the words of this verse, in the day that the Lord freed him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.
David spoke to YHWH the words of this song in the day that YHWH 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 strength, and my Savior.
and he said, "YHWH is my Rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer.
3 I will hope in him. God is my strong one, my shield, and the horn of my salvation. He lifts me up, and he is my refreshment. You, O my Savior, will free me from iniquity.
My God, my Rock, in him I will take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my savior; from violent people he saves me.
4 I will call upon the Lord, who is praiseworthy; and I will be saved from my enemies.
I call on YHWH, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies.
5 For the pangs of death have encircled me. The torrents of Belial have terrified me.
For the waves of death surrounded me, and the currents of ungodliness overwhelmed me.
The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me. (Sheol h7585)
7 In my tribulation, I will call upon the Lord, and I will cry out to my God. And he will heed my voice from his temple, and my outcry will reach his ears.
In my distress I called upon YHWH, and I cried out to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came into his ears.
8 The earth was shaken, and it quaked. The foundations of the mountains were struck together and violently shaken, because he was angry with them.
Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations of the mountains quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.
9 Smoke ascends from his nostrils, and fire from his mouth will devour; coals have been kindled by it.
Smoke went up out of his nostrils. Fire out of his mouth devoured. Coals were kindled by it.
10 He bent down the heavens, and it descended; and a fog was beneath his feet.
He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.
11 And he climbed upon the cherubim, and he flew; and he slid upon the wings of the wind.
He rode on a cherub, and flew; and he soared on the wings of the wind.
12 He set darkness as a hiding place around himself, with waters sifted from the clouds of the heavens.
He made darkness his hiding place, his canopy around him thick clouds dark with water.
13 By means of the brightness of his glance, coals of fire were kindled.
From the brightness before him his thick clouds passed on, with hailstones and coals of fire.
14 The Lord will thunder from heaven; and the Most High will utter his voice.
YHWH thundered from heaven. The Most High uttered his voice.
15 He shot arrows, and he scattered them; lightning, and he consumed them.
And he sent out arrows and scattered them, and he shot lightning bolts and routed them.
16 And the overflow of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the globe were revealed, at the rebuke of the Lord, at the exhale of the breath of his fury.
Then the channels of the sea appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare by the rebuke of YHWH, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
17 He sent from on high, and he took me up. And he drew me out of many waters.
He sent from on high and he took me. He drew me out of many waters.
18 He freed me from my most powerful enemy and from those who had hated me. For they were too strong for me.
He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me.
19 He went before me in the day of my affliction, and the Lord became my firmament.
They came on me in the day of my calamity, but YHWH was my support.
20 And he led me out to a wide-open place. He freed me, because I was pleasing to him.
He also brought me out into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
21 The Lord will reward me according to my justice. And he will repay me according to the cleanness of my hands.
YHWH rewarded me according to my righteousness. He rewarded me according to the cleanness of my hands.
22 For I have kept to the ways of the Lord, and I have not acted impiously before my God.
For I have kept the ways of YHWH, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
23 For all his judgments are in my sight. And I have not removed his precepts from me.
For all his ordinances were before me, and his statutes I did not put away from me.
24 And I shall be perfect with him. And I shall guard myself from my own iniquity.
I was also perfect toward him. I kept myself from my iniquity.
25 And the Lord will recompense me according to my justice, and according to the cleanness of my hands in the sight of his eyes.
Therefore YHWH has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.
26 With the holy one, you will be holy, and with the strong one, you will be perfect.
With the faithful you show yourself faithful. With the innocent you show yourself innocent.
27 With the elect one, you will be elect, and with the perverse one, you will be perverse.
With the pure you show yourself pure. And with the crooked you show yourself tortuous.
28 And you will bring to salvation the poor people, and you will humble the exalted with your eyes.
You save a humble people, but the eyes of the proud you will bring low.
29 For you are my lamp, O Lord. And you, O Lord, will illuminate my darkness.
For you light my lamp. YHWH my God lights up my darkness.
30 For in you, I will run girded. In my God, I will leap over the wall.
For by you, I run against a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall.
31 God, his way is immaculate; the eloquence of the Lord is an exacting fire. He is the shield of all who hope in him.
As for God, his way is perfect. The word of YHWH is pure. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
32 Who is God except the Lord? And who is strong except our God?
For who is God, besides YHWH? Who is a rock, besides our God,
33 God, he has girded me with fortitude, and he has made my way perfect:
the God who girds me with strength, and makes my way blameless?
34 making my feet like the feet of the stag, and stationing me upon my exalted places,
He makes my feet like those of a deer, and sets me on my high places.
35 teaching my hands to do battle, and making my arms like a bow of brass.
He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.
36 You have given me the shield of your salvation. And your mildness has multiplied me.
You have also given me the shield of your salvation, and your right hand holds me up, and your help has made me great.
37 You will enlarge my steps under me, and my ankles will not fail.
You have enlarged my steps under me. My feet have not slipped.
38 I will pursue my enemies, and crush them. And I will not turn back, until I consume them.
I pursued my enemies and overtook them, and I did not turn back until they were destroyed.
39 I will consume them and break them apart, so that they cannot rise up; they will fall under my feet.
And I consumed them, and struck them through, so that they did not rise. And they fell beneath my feet.
40 You have girded me with strength for the battle. Those who resisted me, you have bent down under me.
For you have equipped me with strength for the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
41 You have caused my enemies to turn their back to me; they have hatred for me, and I shall destroy them.
You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.
42 They will cry out, and there will be no one to save; to the Lord, and he will not heed them.
They cry out, but there was none to save; even to YHWH, but he did not answer them.
43 I will wipe them away like the dust of the earth. I will break them apart and crush them, like the mud of the streets.
Then I ground them as fine as the dust on the surface of a path. Like the mud in the streets, I trampled them.
44 You will save me from the contradictions of my people. You will preserve me to be the head of the Gentiles; a people I do not know shall serve me.
You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people. You have kept me to be the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known will serve me.
45 The sons of foreigners, who will resist me, at the hearing of the ear they will be obedient to me.
As soon as they hear of me they obey me. Foreigners come cringing to me;
46 The foreigners flowed away, but they will be drawn together in their anguishes.
they are not bound in chains.
47 The Lord lives, and my God is blessed. And the strong God of my salvation shall be exalted.
YHWH lives. Blessed be my rock. Exalted be God, the rock of my salvation,
48 God gives me vindication, and he casts down the peoples under me.
even the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues peoples under me,
49 He leads me away from my enemies, and he lifts me up from those who resist me. You will free me from the iniquitous man.
who brings me away from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You protect me from the violent man.
50 Because of this, I will confess to you, O Lord, among the Gentiles, and I will sing to your name:
Therefore I will praise you, YHWH, among the nations, and will sing praises to your name.
51 magnifying the salvation of his king, and showing mercy to David, his Christ, and to his offspring forever.”
He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his descendants, until forever."
