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title: 2 Samuel 22
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createdAt: 2024-08-14T03:00:52.223Z
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**1 **And David spake unto 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 **And he said, The LORD *is* my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;

**3 **The 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.

**4 **I will call on the LORD, *who 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 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.

**8 **Then the earth shook and trembled; the 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 bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness *was* under his feet.

**11 **And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind.

**12 **And he made darkness pavilions 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 thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.

**15 **And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.

**16 **And 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.

**17 **He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;

**18 **He delivered me from my strong enemy, *and* from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.

**19 **They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.

**20 **He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

**21 **The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

**22 **For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

**23 **For all his judgments *were* before me: and *as for* his statutes, I did not depart from them.

**24 **I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity.

**25 **Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.

**26 **With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, *and* with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.

**27 **With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.

**28 **And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes *are* upon the haughty, *that* thou mayest bring *them* down.

**29 **For thou *art* my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.

**30 **For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall.

**31 ***As for* God, his way *is* perfect; the word of the LORD *is* tried: he *is* a buckler to all them that trust in him.

**32 **For who *is* God, save the LORD? and who *is* a rock, save our God?

**33 **God *is* my strength *and* power: and he maketh my way perfect.

**34 **He maketh my feet like hinds' *feet*: and setteth me upon my high places.

**35 **He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.

**36 **Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great.

**37 **Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip.

**38 **I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them.

**39 **And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.

**40 **For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.

**41 **Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.

**42 **They looked, but *there was* none to save; *even* unto the LORD, but he answered them not.

**43 **Then 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.

**44 **Thou 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.

**45 **Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me.

**46 **Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.

**47 **The LORD liveth; and blessed *be* my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.

**48 **It *is* God that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people under me,

**49 **And 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.

**50 **Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name.

**51 ***He is* the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.