2 Samuel 22:43-51

43 delebo eos ut pulverem terrae quasi lutum platearum comminuam eos atque conpingam

44 salvabis me a contradictionibus populi mei custodies in caput gentium populus quem ignoro serviet mihi

45 filii alieni resistent mihi auditu auris oboedient mihi

46 filii alieni defluxerunt et contrahentur in angustiis suis

47 vivit Dominus et benedictus Deus meus et exaltabitur Deus fortis salutis meae

48 Deus qui das vindictas mihi et deicis populos sub me

49 qui educis me ab inimicis meis et a resistentibus mihi elevas me a viro iniquo liberabis me

50 propterea confitebor tibi Domine in gentibus et nomini tuo cantabo

51 magnificanti salutes regis sui et facienti misericordiam christo suo David et semini eius in sempiternum

2 Samuel 22:43-51 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.