2 Samuel 22

The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;

₃The God of my rock; in him will I trust:

He is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge,

My saviour; thou savest me from violence.

₄I will call on the LORD, who 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 I called upon the LORD,

And cried to my God:

And he did hear my voice out of his temple,

And my cry did enter into his ears.

₈Then the earth shook and trembled;

The 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 bowed the heavens also, and came down;

And darkness was under his feet.

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

And he was seen upon the wings of the wind.

₁₂And he made darkness pavilions round about him,

Dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

₁₃Through the brightness before him

Were coals of fire kindled.

₁₄The LORD thundered from heaven,

And the Most High uttered his voice.

₁₅And he sent out arrows, and scattered them;

Lightning, and discomfited them.

₁₆And the channels of the sea appeared,

The foundations of the world were discovered,

At the rebuking of the LORD,

At the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

₁₇He sent from above, he took me;

He drew me out of many waters;

₁₈He delivered me from my strong enemy,

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

₁₉They prevented me in the day of my calamity:

But the LORD was my stay.

₂₀He brought me forth also into a large place:

He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

₂₁The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness:

According to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

₂₂For I have kept the ways of the LORD,

And have not wickedly departed from my God.

₂₃For all his judgments were before me:

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

₂₄I was also upright before him,

And have kept myself from mine iniquity.

₂₅Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my righteousness;

According to my cleanness in his eye sight.

₂₆With the 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 afflicted 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;

The word of the LORD is tried:

He is a buckler to all them that trust in him.

₃₂For who is God, save the LORD?

And who is a rock, save our God?

₃₃God is my strength and power:

And he maketh my way perfect.

₃₄He maketh my feet like hinds' feet:

And setteth me upon my high places.

₃₅He 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 my 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 girded me with strength to battle:

Them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.

₄₁Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies,

That I might destroy them that hate me.

₄₂They looked, but there was none to save;

Even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.

₄₃Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth,

I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.

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

Thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen:

A people which I knew not shall serve me.

₄₅Strangers shall submit themselves unto me:

As soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me.

₄₆Strangers shall fade away,

And they shall be afraid out of their close places.

₄₇The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock;

And exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.

₄₈It is God that avengeth me,

And that bringeth down the people under me,

₄₉And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies:

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

Thou hast delivered me from the violent man.

₅₀Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen,

And I will sing praises unto thy name.

₅₁He is the tower of salvation for his king:

And sheweth mercy to his anointed,

Unto David, and to his seed for evermore.