2 Samuel 22 - New American Standard Bible (NASB)

David’s Psalm of Deliverance

22 ^(A)Now David spoke ^(B)the words of this song to the Lord on the day that the Lord had saved him from the ^[a]hand of all his enemies and from the ^[b]hand of Saul. ² He said,

“^(C)The Lord is my ^[c]rock and my fortress and my deliverer;
^{3 [d](D)}My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge,
My ^(E)shield and ^(F)the horn of my salvation, my stronghold and ^(G)my refuge;
My savior, You save me from violence.
⁴ I call upon the Lord, ^(H)who is worthy to be praised,
And I am saved from my enemies.
⁵ For ^(I)the waves of death encompassed me;
^(J)The floods of ^[e]destruction terrified me;
^{6 (K)}The ropes of ^[f]Sheol surrounded me;
The snares of death confronted me.
^{7 (L)}In my distress I called upon the Lord,
Yes, I called out to my God;
And from His temple He heard my voice,
And my cry for help came into His ears.
⁸ Then ^(M)the earth shook and quaked,
^(N)The foundations of heaven were trembling
And were shaken, because He was angry.
⁹ Smoke went up ^[g]out of His nostrils,
^(O)And fire from His mouth was devouring;
^(P)Coals were kindled by it.
¹⁰ He also bowed the heavens down low, and came down
With ^(Q)thick darkness under His feet.
^{11 (R)}He rode on a cherub and flew;
He ^[h]appeared on ^(S)the wings of the wind.
^{12 (T)}He made darkness canopies around Him,
A mass of waters, thick clouds of the sky.
¹³ From the brightness before Him
^(U)Coals of fire were kindled.
^{14 (V)}The Lord thundered from heaven,
And the Most High uttered His voice.
^{15 (W)}And He shot arrows and scattered them,
Lightning, and ^[i]routed them.
¹⁶ Then the channels of the sea appeared,
The foundations of the world were exposed
By the rebuke of the Lord,
^(X)From the blast of the breath of His nostrils.
^{17 (Y)}He sent from on high, He took me;
^(Z)He drew me out of many waters.
¹⁸ He rescued me from my strong enemy,
From those who hated me, for they were too strong for me.
¹⁹ They confronted me on the day of my disaster,
^(AA)But the Lord was my support.
^{20 (AB)}He also brought me out into an open place;
He rescued me, ^(AC)because He delighted in me.
^{21 (AD)}The Lord has treated me in accordance with my righteousness;
^(AE)In accordance with the cleanliness of my hands He has repaid me.
^{22 (AF)}For I have kept the ways of the Lord,
And have not acted wickedly against my God.
^{23 (AG)}For all His ordinances were before me,
And as for His statutes, I did not deviate from ^[j]them.
^{24 (AH)}I was also ^[k]blameless toward Him,
And I have kept myself from my wrongdoing.
^{25 (AI)}So the Lord has repaid me in accordance with my righteousness,
In accordance with my cleanliness before His eyes.
^{26 (AJ)}With the one who is faithful You show Yourself faithful,
With the ^[l]blameless one You prove Yourself ^[m]blameless;
^{27 (AK)}With the one who is pure You show Yourself pure,
^(AL)But with the perverted You ^[n]show Yourself astute.
^{28 (AM)}And You save an afflicted people;
^(AN)But Your eyes are on the haughty whom You humiliate.
^{29 (AO)}For You are my lamp, Lord;
And the Lord illuminates my darkness.
^{30 (AP)}For by You I can run at a ^[o]troop of warriors;
By my God I can leap over a wall.
^{31 (AQ)}As for God, His way is ^[p]blameless;
^(AR)The word of the Lord is refined;
^(AS)He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.
^{32 (AT)}For who is God, except the Lord?
^(AU)And who is a rock, except our God?
^{33 (AV)}God is my strong fortress;
And He ^[q]sets the ^[r]blameless on ^[s]His way.
^{34 (AW)}He makes ^[t]my feet like deer’s feet,
^(AX)And sets me on my high places.
^{35 (AY)}He trains my hands for battle,
^(AZ)So that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
³⁶ You have also given me ^(BA)the shield of Your salvation,
And Your ^[u]help makes me great.
^{37 (BB)}You enlarge my steps under me,
And my ^[v]feet have not slipped.
³⁸ I pursued my enemies and ^(BC)eliminated them,
And I did not turn back until they were finished off.
³⁹ And I have devoured them and smashed them, so that they would not rise;
And ^(BD)they fell under my feet.
⁴⁰ For You have encircled me with strength for battle;
You have forced ^(BE)those who rose up against me to bow down under me.
⁴¹ You have also ^(BF)made my enemies turn their backs to me,
And I ^[w]destroyed those who hated me.
^{42 (BG)}They looked, but there was no one to save them;
^(BH)Even to the Lord, but He did not answer them.
^{43 (BI)}Then I pulverized them as the dust of the earth;
^(BJ)I crushed and trampled them like the mud of the streets.
^{44 (BK)}You have also saved me from the contentions of my people;
^(BL)You have kept me as head of the nations;
^(BM)A people I have not known serve me.
^{45 (BN)}Foreigners pretend to obey me;
As soon as they hear, they obey me.
⁴⁶ Foreigners lose heart,
^(BO)And ^[x]come trembling out of their fortresses.
⁴⁷ The Lord lives, and blessed be my Rock;
And exalted be ^[y](BP)my God, the rock of my salvation,
^{48 (BQ)}The God who executes vengeance for me,
^(BR)And brings down peoples under me,
⁴⁹ Who also brings me out from my enemies;
You also raise me above ^(BS)those who rise up against me;
^(BT)You rescue me from the violent person.
^{50 (BU)}Therefore I will ^[z]give thanks to You, Lord, among the nations,
And I will sing praises to Your name.
^{51 (BV)}He is a tower of ^[aa]salvation to His king,
And ^(BW)shows favor to His anointed,
^(BX)To David and his ^[ab]descendants forever.”

Footnotes

1. 2 Samuel 22:1 Lit palm
2. 2 Samuel 22:1 Lit palm
3. 2 Samuel 22:2 Lit crag
4. 2 Samuel 22:3 As in LXX; MT God of my rock
5. 2 Samuel 22:5 Or wickedness; Heb Belial
6. 2 Samuel 22:6 I.e., the netherworld
7. 2 Samuel 22:9 I.e., in his anger
8. 2 Samuel 22:11 Many mss glided
9. 2 Samuel 22:15 Lit confused
10. 2 Samuel 22:23 Lit it
11. 2 Samuel 22:24 Lit complete; or having integrity
12. 2 Samuel 22:26 Lit complete; or having integrity
13. 2 Samuel 22:26 Lit complete; or having integrity
14. 2 Samuel 22:27 As in two Heb mss and Ps 18:26; MT pretend stupidity
15. 2 Samuel 22:30 Or wall
16. 2 Samuel 22:31 Lit complete; or having integrity
17. 2 Samuel 22:33 Or sets free
18. 2 Samuel 22:33 Lit complete; or having integrity
19. 2 Samuel 22:33 Another reading is my
20. 2 Samuel 22:34 Another reading is His
21. 2 Samuel 22:36 Lit answering
22. 2 Samuel 22:37 Lit ankles
23. 2 Samuel 22:41 Or silenced
24. 2 Samuel 22:46 Reading based on Ps 18:45; MT belt up themselves
25. 2 Samuel 22:47 As in LXX; MT the God of the rock
26. 2 Samuel 22:50 Or praise
27. 2 Samuel 22:51 Lit acts of salvation
28. 2 Samuel 22:51 Lit seed

Cross references

1. 2 Samuel 22:1 : Ps 18:2-50
2. 2 Samuel 22:1 : Ex 15:1; Deut 31:30
3. 2 Samuel 22:2 : 1 Sam 23:25; 24:2; Ps 31:3; 71:3
4. 2 Samuel 22:3 : Deut 32:4, 37; 1 Sam 2:2
5. 2 Samuel 22:3 : Gen 15:1; Deut 33:29
6. 2 Samuel 22:3 : Luke 1:69
7. 2 Samuel 22:3 : Ps 9:9
8. 2 Samuel 22:4 : Ps 48:1; 96:4
9. 2 Samuel 22:5 : Ps 93:4; Jon 2:3
10. 2 Samuel 22:5 : Ps 69:14, 15
11. 2 Samuel 22:6 : Ps 116:3
12. 2 Samuel 22:7 : Ps 116:4; 120:1
13. 2 Samuel 22:8 : Judg 5:4; Ps 97:4
14. 2 Samuel 22:8 : Job 26:11
15. 2 Samuel 22:9 : Ps 97:3; Heb 12:29
16. 2 Samuel 22:9 : 2 Sam 22:13
17. 2 Samuel 22:10 : Ex 19:16; 1 Kin 8:12; Ps 97:2; Nah 1:3
18. 2 Samuel 22:11 : 2 Sam 6:2
19. 2 Samuel 22:11 : Ps 104:3
20. 2 Samuel 22:12 : Job 36:29
21. 2 Samuel 22:13 : 2 Sam 22:9
22. 2 Samuel 22:14 : Job 37:2-5; Ps 29:3
23. 2 Samuel 22:15 : Deut 32:23; Josh 10:10; 1 Sam 7:10
24. 2 Samuel 22:16 : Ex 15:8; Nah 1:4
25. 2 Samuel 22:17 : Ps 144:7
26. 2 Samuel 22:17 : Ex 2:10
27. 2 Samuel 22:19 : Ps 23:4
28. 2 Samuel 22:20 : Ps 31:8; 118:5
29. 2 Samuel 22:20 : 2 Sam 15:26
30. 2 Samuel 22:21 : 1 Sam 26:23; 1 Kin 8:32
31. 2 Samuel 22:21 : Ps 24:4
32. 2 Samuel 22:22 : Gen 18:19; Ps 128:1; Prov 8:32
33. 2 Samuel 22:23 : Deut 6:6-9; Ps 119:30, 102
34. 2 Samuel 22:24 : Gen 6:9; 7:1; Eph 1:4; Col 1:21, 22
35. 2 Samuel 22:25 : 2 Sam 22:21
36. 2 Samuel 22:26 : Matt 5:7
37. 2 Samuel 22:27 : Matt 5:8; 1 John 3:3
38. 2 Samuel 22:27 : Lev 26:23, 24; Rom 1:28
39. 2 Samuel 22:28 : Ex 3:7, 8; Ps 72:12, 13
40. 2 Samuel 22:28 : Is 2:11, 12, 17; 5:15
41. 2 Samuel 22:29 : 2 Sam 21:17; 1 Kin 11:36; Ps 27:1
42. 2 Samuel 22:30 : 2 Sam 5:6-8
43. 2 Samuel 22:31 : Deut 32:4; Matt 5:48
44. 2 Samuel 22:31 : Ps 12:6; 119:140; Prov 30:5
45. 2 Samuel 22:31 : 2 Sam 22:3; Ps 84:9
46. 2 Samuel 22:32 : 1 Sam 2:2
47. 2 Samuel 22:32 : 2 Sam 22:2
48. 2 Samuel 22:33 : 2 Sam 22:2; Ps 31:3, 4
49. 2 Samuel 22:34 : 2 Sam 2:18; Hab 3:19
50. 2 Samuel 22:34 : Deut 32:13
51. 2 Samuel 22:35 : Ps 144:1
52. 2 Samuel 22:35 : Job 20:24
53. 2 Samuel 22:36 : Eph 6:16, 17
54. 2 Samuel 22:37 : 2 Sam 22:20; Prov 4:12
55. 2 Samuel 22:38 : Ex 15:9
56. 2 Samuel 22:39 : Mal 4:3
57. 2 Samuel 22:40 : Ps 44:5
58. 2 Samuel 22:41 : Ex 23:27; Josh 10:24
59. 2 Samuel 22:42 : Is 17:7, 8
60. 2 Samuel 22:42 : 1 Sam 28:6; Is 1:15
61. 2 Samuel 22:43 : 2 Kin 13:7
62. 2 Samuel 22:43 : Is 10:6; Mic 7:10
63. 2 Samuel 22:44 : 2 Sam 3:1; 19:9, 14
64. 2 Samuel 22:44 : 2 Sam 8:1-14
65. 2 Samuel 22:44 : Is 55:5
66. 2 Samuel 22:45 : Ps 66:3; 81:15
67. 2 Samuel 22:46 : 1 Sam 14:11; Mic 7:17
68. 2 Samuel 22:47 : 2 Sam 22:3; Ps 89:26
69. 2 Samuel 22:48 : 1 Sam 24:12; 25:39; 2 Sam 4:8; Ps 94:1
70. 2 Samuel 22:48 : Ps 144:2
71. 2 Samuel 22:49 : Ps 44:5
72. 2 Samuel 22:49 : Ps 140:1, 4, 11
73. 2 Samuel 22:50 : Rom 15:9
74. 2 Samuel 22:51 : Ps 144:10
75. 2 Samuel 22:51 : Ps 89:24
76. 2 Samuel 22:51 : 2 Sam 7:12-16