2 Samuel 22:19-29

19 Ils m'avaient surpris au jour de ma calamité, mais l'Éternel fut mon appui.
20 Il m'a mis au large; il m'a délivré, parce qu'il a pris son plaisir en moi.
21 L'Éternel m'a traité selon ma justice; il m'a rendu selon la pureté de mes mains;
22 Car j'ai gardé les voies de l'Éternel, et je n'ai point été infidèle à mon Dieu.
23 Car toutes ses ordonnances sont devant moi, et je ne m'écarte point de ses statuts.
24 J'ai été intègre devant lui, et je me suis gardé de mon iniquité.
25 Aussi l'Éternel m'a rendu selon ma justice, selon ma pureté à ses yeux.
26 Avec celui qui est bon, tu es bon; avec l'homme intègre tu es intègre.
27 Avec celui qui est pur, tu te montres pur; mais avec le pervers, tu agis selon sa perversité.
28 Tu sauves le peuple affligé; mais de ton regard tu abaisses les orgueilleux.
29 Car tu es ma lampe, ô Éternel! Et l'Éternel fait resplendir mes ténèbres.

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2 Samuel 22:19-29 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.

The Ostervald translation is in the public domain.