2 Samuel 22:10-20

10 he lowered the sky. He stepped down; under his feet an abyss opened up.
11 He rode a winged creature, swift on wind-wings.
12 He wrapped himself in a trenchcoat of black rain-cloud darkness.
13 But his cloud-brightness burst through, a grand comet of fireworks.
14 Then God thundered out of heaven; the High God gave a great shout.
15 God shot his arrows - pandemonium! He hurled his lightnings - a rout!
16 The secret sources of ocean were exposed, the hidden depths of earth lay uncovered The moment God roared in protest, let loose his hurricane anger.
17 But me he caught - reached all the way from sky to sea; he pulled me out
18 Of that ocean of hate, that enemy chaos, the void in which I was drowning.
19 They hit me when I was down, but God stuck by me.
20 He stood me up on a wide-open field; I stood there saved - surprised to be loved!
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