2 Samuel 22:1-8

1 Et David adressa à l'Éternel les paroles de ce cantique, au jour où l'Éternel l'eut délivré de la main de tous ses ennemis, et de la main de Saül.

2 Il dit: Éternel, mon rocher, ma forteresse et mon libérateur!

3 O Dieu, mon rocher, vers qui je me retire; mon bouclier et la force qui me délivre, ma haute retraite et mon asile! mon Sauveur! tu me garantis de la violence.

4 Je m'écrie: Loué soit l'Éternel! Et je suis délivré de mes ennemis.

5 Car les flots de la mort m'avaient environné, les torrents des méchants m'avaient effrayé;

6 Les liens du Sépulcre m'avaient environné; les filets de la mort m'avaient surpris.

7 Dans ma détresse, j'invoquai l'Éternel, je criai à mon Dieu; de son palais il entendit ma voix, et mon cri parvint à ses oreilles.

8 Alors la terre fut ébranlée et trembla, les fondements des cieux s'agitèrent et s'ébranlèrent, parce qu'il était courroucé.

2 Samuel 22:1-8 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO SECOND SAMUEL 22

This chapter contains a song or psalm, the same with the eighteenth psalm, and which, according to Jarchi, was composed by David in his old age, and, as Kimchi says, at the end or close of his days; but Abarbinel is of opinion that it was written in his youthful time, in the midst of his troubles, and was sung by him as often as he had a deliverance from any; and which may account for the several variations in it from the eighteenth psalm, which, the same writer observes, are seventy four; and are not to be ascribed to the difference of copies, or neglect of copiers: and very probably, towards the close of his days, he revised it, and made it fit for general use, and sent it with the rest of his psalms to the chief musician; but the particular consideration of it, and of the differences in it from Ps 18:1-50 are referred to the exposition of that book in its course.