2Sam 22
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And David spoke to the Lord the words of this song, in the day in which the Lord rescued
him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul.
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And the song was thus: O Lord, my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer,
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my God; he shall be to me my guard, I will trust in him: he is my protector, and the
horn of my salvation, my helper, and my sure refuge; you shall save me from the unjust
man.
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I will call upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised, and I shall be saved from my
enemies.
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For the troubles of death compassed me, the floods of iniquity amazed me:
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the pangs of death surrounded me, the agonies of death prevented me.
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When I am afflicted I will call upon the Lord, and will cry to my God, and he shall
hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry shall come into his ears.
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And the earth was troubled and quaked, and the foundations of heaven were confounded
and torn asunder, because the Lord was wroth with them.
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There went up a smoke in his anger, and fire out of his mouth devours: coals were
kindled at it.
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And he bowed the heavens, and came down, and there was darkness under his feet.
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And he rode upon the cherubs and did fly, and was seen upon the wings of the wind.
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And he made darkness his hiding-place; his tabernacle round about him was the darkness
of waters, he condensed it with the clouds of the air.
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At the brightness before him coals of fire were kindled.
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The Lord thundered out of heaven, and the Most High uttered his voice.
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And he sent forth arrows, and scattered them, and he flashed lightning, and dismayed
them.
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And the channels of the sea were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered,
at the rebuke of the Lord, at the blast of the breath of his anger.
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He sent from above and took me; he drew me out of many waters.
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He delivered me from my strong enemies, from them that hated me, for they were stronger
than I.
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The days of my affliction prevented me; but the Lord was my stay.
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And he brought me into a wide place, and rescued me, because he delighted in me.
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And the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousness; even according to the purity
of my hands did he recompense me.
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Because, I kept the ways of the Lord, and did not wickedly depart from my God.
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For all his judgements and his ordinances were before me: I departed not from them.
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And I shall be blameless Gr. to him before him, and will keep myself from my iniquity.
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And the Lord will recompense me according to my righteousness, and according to the
purity of my hands in his eye-sight.
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With the holy you will be holy, and with the perfect man you will be perfect,
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and with the Gr. choice or elect excellent you will be excellent, and with the froward you will be froward.
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And you will save the poor people, and will bring down the eyes Or, upon the haughty of the haughty.
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For you, Lord, art my lamp, and the Lord shall shine forth to me in my darkness.
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For by you shall I run i. e. a strong man or warrior as a girded man, and by my God shall I leap over a wall.
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As for the Mighty One, his way is blameless: the word of the Lord is strong and tried
in the fire: he is a protector to all that put their trust in him.
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Who is strong, but the Lord? and who will be a Creator except our God?
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It is the Mighty One who strengthens me with might, and has prepared my way without
fault.
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Gr. making He makes my feet like hart’s feet, and sets me upon the high places.
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He teaches my hands to war, and has broken a brazen bow by my arm.
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And you have given me the shield of my salvation, and your propitious dealing has
increased me,
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so as to make room under me for my going, and my legs did not totter.
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I will pursue my enemies, and will utterly destroy them; and I will not turn again
till I have consumed them.
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And Alex. and Heb. «consume’ I will crush them, and they shall not rise; and they shall fall under my feet.
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And you shall strengthen me with power for the war; you shall cause them that rise
up against me to bow down under me.
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And you have caused Gr. as for my enemies, you have given me the back mine enemies to flee before me, even them that hated
me, and you have slain them.
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They shall cry, and there Gr. is shall be no helper; to the Lord, but he hearkens not to them.
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And I ground them as the dust of the earth, I beat them small as the mire of the streets.
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And you shall deliver me from the striving of the A. V. «my people’ peoples, you shall keep me to be the head of the Gentiles:
a people which I knew
not served me.
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The strange children feigned obedience to me; they hearkened to me Gr. at the hearing of the ear as soon as they heard.
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The strange children shall be cast away, and shall be overthrown out of their hiding
places.
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The Lord lives, and blessed be my guardian, and my God, Gr. the keeper of my salvation my strong keeper, shall be exalted.
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The Lord who avenges me is strong, chastening the nations under me,
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and bringing me out from my enemies: and you shall set me on high from among those
that rise up against me: you shall deliver me from Gr. a man of wrongs the violent man.
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Therefore will I confess to you, O Lord, among the Gentiles, and sing to your name.
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He magnifies the Gr. salvations salvation of his king, and works mercy for his anointed, even for David and for his
seed for ever.