2 Samuel Chapter 22    

¹And David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul,
  ²and he said, “Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer, even mine;
  ³God, my rock, I will take refuge in him; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge. My savior, you save me from violence.
  ⁴I will call on Yahweh who is worthy to be praised and I will be saved from my enemies.
  ⁵For the waves of death surrounded me. The torrents of Belial made me afraid.
  ⁶The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death lay ahead of me.
 

⁷In my distress I called on Yahweh, I called to my God. He heard my voice out of his Temple. My cry came into his ears.
  ⁸Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations of heaven quaked and were shaken because he was angry.
  ⁹Smoke arose from his nostrils. Fire out of his mouth devoured. Burning coals flamed forth from him.
  ¹⁰He spread apart the heavens and came down. A thick cloud was under his feet.
  ¹¹He rode on a cherub and flew. And he glided swiftly^a on the wings of the wind.
  ¹²He made the darkness around him his canopies, the gathering of waters, the thick clouds of the skies.
  ¹³From the brightness before him burned forth coals of fire.
  ¹⁴Yahweh thundered from the heavens. The Most High gave forth his voice.
  ¹⁵He sent out arrows and scattered them; lightning, and confused them.
  ¹⁶Then the sources of the sea appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare by the rebuke of Yahweh, At the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
 

¹⁷He stretched out his hand from on high and took me; he drew me out of mighty waters.
  ¹⁸He delivered me from my strong enemy; from those who hate me, from those who were mightier than I.
  ¹⁹They confronted me in the day of my calamity, but Yahweh was my support.
  ²⁰He brought me out into an open space. He delivered me because he delighted in me.
 

²¹Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness. He paid me back according to the purity of my hands.
  ²²For I have kept the ways of Yahweh and have not wickedly departed from my God.
  ²³For all his laws are before me. And as for his statutes, I did not depart from them.
  ²⁴I was blameless toward him. I kept myself from my iniquity.
  ²⁵So Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to my purity in his eyes.
 

²⁶With the merciful^b you are merciful. With the blameless man you are blameless.
  ²⁷With the pure you are pure. With the crooked you are shrewd.
  ²⁸You will save the afflicted people, But your eyes are on the haughty, that you will bring them down.
  ²⁹For you are my lamp, O Yahweh. And Yahweh lightens my darkness.
  ³⁰For by you I can run against a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall.
  ³¹As for God, his way is perfect. The word of Yahweh is tested. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
 

³²For who is God besides Yahweh? Who is a rock besides our God?
  ³³God is my strong fortress. He makes my way blameless.
  ³⁴He makes my feet like the does’ feet and sets me on my high places.
  ³⁵He trains my hands for battle so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.
  ³⁶You have given me the shield of your salvation. And your gentleness has made me great.
  ³⁷You have enlarged my steps under me. My feet have not slipped.
  ³⁸I will pursue my enemies and destroy them. And I will not return until they are finished.
  ³⁹I will consume them and crush them so that they cannot rise. They will fall dead under my feet.
  ⁴⁰For you have armed me with strength for the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
  ⁴¹You made my enemies turn their backs to me; I destroyed those who hate me.
  ⁴²They cried out for help, but there was none to save; to Yahweh, but he did not answer them.
  ⁴³Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth. I crushed them and stamped on them like the dirt of the streets.
 

⁴⁴You also have delivered me from the strife among my people. You have guarded me as the head of nations. A people whom I have not known will serve me.
  ⁴⁵Foreigners will submit themselves to me. As soon as their ears hear, they will obey me.
  ⁴⁶Foreigners will lose courage and will come trembling out of their strongholds.
 

⁴⁷Yahweh lives! Blessed be my rock! Exalted be God, the rock of my salvation,
  ⁴⁸the God who executes vengeance for me, who subdues peoples under me,
  ⁴⁹who brings me out from among my enemies. You lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent person.
 

⁵⁰Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations, and I will make music to your name.
  ⁵¹He gives great salvation to his king and shows covenant faithfulness to his anointed one, to David and to his seed forevermore.