2 Samuel 22:40-50

40 Me ceñiste de fortaleza para la batalla, y postraste debajo de mí los que contra mí se levantaron.

41 Tú me diste la cerviz de mis enemigos, de mis aborrecedores, y que yo los talase.

42 Miraron, y no hubo quien los librase; aun al SEÑOR, mas no les respondió.

43 Yo los quebranté como a polvo de la tierra; como a lodo de las plazas los desmenucé, y los disipé.

44 Tú me libraste de contiendas de pueblos; tú me guardaste para que fuese cabeza de gentiles; pueblos que no conocía, me sirvieron.

45 Los extraños temblaban ante mí mandamiento ; en oyendo, me obedecían.

46 Los extraños desfallecían, y temblaban en sus encerramientos.

47 Viva el SEÑOR, y sea bendita mi peña; sea ensalzado el Dios, que es la roca de mi salvación.

48 El Dios que me ha dado venganzas, y sujeta los pueblos debajo de mí.

49 Que me saca de entre mis enemigos; tu me sacaste en alto de entre los que se levantaron contra mi; me libraste del varón de iniquidades.

50 Por tanto yo te confesaré entre los gentiles, oh SEÑOR, y cantaré a tu nombre.

2 Samuel 22:40-50 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.