2 Samuel 22
David’s Psalm Of Deliverance
1And David spoke the words of this song to the LORD in the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.
2He said,
My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold and my refuge;
My savior, You save me from violence.
And I am saved from my enemies.
The torrents of destruction overwhelmed me;
The snares of death confronted me.
Yes, I cried to my God;
And from His temple He heard my voice,
And my cry for help came into His ears.
The foundations of heaven were trembling
And were shaken, because He was angry.
Fire from His mouth devoured;
Coals were kindled by it.
With thick darkness under His feet.
And He appeared on the wings of the wind.
A mass of waters, thick clouds of the sky.
Coals of fire were kindled.
And the Most High uttered His voice.
Lightning, and routed them.
The foundations of the world were laid bare
By the rebuke of the LORD,
At the blast of the breath of His nostrils.
He drew me out of many waters.
From those who hated me, for they were too strong for me.
But the LORD was my support.
He rescued me, because He delighted in me.
According to the cleanness of my hands He has recompensed me.
And have not acted wickedly against my God.
And as for His statutes, I did not depart from them.
And I kept myself from my iniquity.
According to my cleanness before His eyes.
With the blameless You show Yourself blameless;
And with the perverted You show Yourself astute.
But Your eyes are on the haughty whom You abase.
And the LORD illumines my darkness.
By my God I can leap over a wall.
The word of the LORD is tested;
He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.
And who is a rock, besides our God?
And He sets the blameless in His way.
And sets me on my high places.
So that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
And Your help makes me great.
And my feet have not slipped.
And I did not turn back until they were consumed.
And they fell under my feet.
You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
And I destroyed those who hated me.
Even to the LORD, but He did not answer them.
I crushed and stamped them as the mire of the streets.
You have kept me as head of the nations;
A people whom I have not known serve me.
As soon as they hear, they obey me.
And come trembling out of their fortresses.
And exalted be God, the rock of my salvation,
And brings down peoples under me,
You even lift me above those who rise up against me;
You rescue me from the violent man.
And I will sing praises to Your name.
And shows lovingkindness to His anointed,
To David and his descendants forever.”