222 Samuel 22

1And David spoke to the LORD the words of this song in the day [that] the LORD had delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul:Select 2 Samuel 22:1

2And he said, The LORD [is] my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;Select 2 Samuel 22:2

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 preserver; thou savest me from violence.Select 2 Samuel 22:3

4I will call on the LORD, [who is] worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from my enemies.Select 2 Samuel 22:4

5When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly-men made me afraid;Select 2 Samuel 22:5

6The sorrows of hell encompassed me; the snares of death seized me;Select 2 Samuel 22:6

7In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry [entered] into his ears.Select 2 Samuel 22:7

8Then the earth shook and trembled: the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.Select 2 Samuel 22:8

9There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.Select 2 Samuel 22:9

10He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness [was] under his feet.Select 2 Samuel 22:10

11And he rode upon a cherub, and flew: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind.Select 2 Samuel 22:11

12And he made darkness pavilions around him, dark waters, [and] thick clouds of the skies.Select 2 Samuel 22:12

13Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.Select 2 Samuel 22:13

14The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.Select 2 Samuel 22:14

15And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.Select 2 Samuel 22:15

16And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were laid open, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.Select 2 Samuel 22:16

17He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;Select 2 Samuel 22:17

18He delivered me from my strong enemy, from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.Select 2 Samuel 22:18

19They fell upon me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my support.Select 2 Samuel 22:19

20He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me.Select 2 Samuel 22:20

21The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.Select 2 Samuel 22:21

22For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.Select 2 Samuel 22:22

23For all his judgments [were] before me: and [as for] his statutes, I did not depart from them.Select 2 Samuel 22:23

24I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from my iniquity.Select 2 Samuel 22:24

25Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye-sight.Select 2 Samuel 22:25

26With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful, [and] with the upright man thou wilt show thyself upright.Select 2 Samuel 22:26

27With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt contend.Select 2 Samuel 22:27

28And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thy eyes [are] upon the haughty, [that] thou mayest bring [them] down.Select 2 Samuel 22:28

29For thou [art] my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.Select 2 Samuel 22:29

30For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall.Select 2 Samuel 22:30

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.Select 2 Samuel 22:31

32For who [is] God, save the LORD? and who [is] a rock, save our God?Select 2 Samuel 22:32

33God [is] my strength [and] power: and he maketh my way perfect.Select 2 Samuel 22:33

34He maketh my feet like hinds' [feet]: and setteth me upon my high places.Select 2 Samuel 22:34

35He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by my arms.Select 2 Samuel 22:35

36Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great.Select 2 Samuel 22:36

37Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet have not slipped.Select 2 Samuel 22:37

38I have pursued my enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them.Select 2 Samuel 22:38

39And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they have fallen under my feet.Select 2 Samuel 22:39

40For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.Select 2 Samuel 22:40

41Thou hast also given me the necks of my enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.Select 2 Samuel 22:41

42They looked, but [there was] none to save; [even] to the LORD, but he answered them not.Select 2 Samuel 22:42

43Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I stamped them as the mire of the street, [and] spread them abroad.Select 2 Samuel 22:43

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.Select 2 Samuel 22:44

45Strangers shall submit themselves to me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient to me.Select 2 Samuel 22:45

46Strangers shall fade away, and they shall tremble from their close places.Select 2 Samuel 22:46

47The LORD liveth; and blessed [be] my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.Select 2 Samuel 22:47

48It [is] God that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people under me,Select 2 Samuel 22:48

49And that bringeth me forth from my enemies: thou also hast lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.Select 2 Samuel 22:49

50Therefore I will give thanks to thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and I will sing praises to thy name.Select 2 Samuel 22:50

51[He is] the tower of salvation for his king: and [he] showeth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.Select 2 Samuel 22:51