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2 Samuel 22

The Message Bible MSG

1 David prayed to God the words of this song after God saved him from all his enemies and from Saul.

2 God is bedrock under my feet, the castle in which I live, my rescuing knight.

3 My God - the high crag where I run for dear life, hiding behind the boulders, safe in the granite hideout; My mountaintop refuge, he saves me from ruthless men.

4 I sing to God the Praise-Lofty, and find myself safe and saved.

5 The waves of death crashed over me, devil waters rushed over me.

6 Hell's ropes cinched me tight; death traps barred every exit.

7 A hostile world! I called to God, to my God I cried out. From his palace he heard me call; my cry brought me right into his presence - a private audience!

8 Earth wobbled and lurched; the very heavens shook like leaves, Quaked like aspen leaves because of his rage.

9 His nostrils flared, billowing smoke; his mouth spit fire. Tongues of fire darted in and out;

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!

21 God made my life complete when I placed all the pieces before him. When I cleaned up my act, he gave me a fresh start.

22 Indeed, I've kept alert to God's ways; I haven't taken God for granted.

23 Every day I review the ways he works, I try not to miss a trick.

24 I feel put back together, and I'm watching my step.

25 God rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes.

26 You stick by people who stick with you, you're straight with people who're straight with you,

27 You're good to good people, you shrewdly work around the bad ones.

28 You take the side of the down-and-out, but the stuck-up you take down a peg.

29 Suddenly, God, your light floods my path, God drives out the darkness.

30 I smash the bands of marauders, I vault the high fences.

31 What a God! His road stretches straight and smooth. Every God-direction is road-tested. Everyone who runs toward him Makes it.

32 Is there any god like God? Are we not at bedrock?

33 Is not this the God who armed me well, then aimed me in the right direction?

34 Now I run like a deer; I'm king of the mountain.

35 He shows me how to fight; I can bend a bronze bow!

36 You protect me with salvation-armor; you touch me and I feel ten feet tall.

37 You cleared the ground under me so my footing was firm.

38 When I chased my enemies I caught them; I didn't let go till they were dead men.

39 I nailed them; they were down for good; then I walked all over them.

40 You armed me well for this fight; you smashed the upstarts.

41 You made my enemies turn tail, and I wiped out the haters.

42 They cried "uncle" but Uncle didn't come; They yelled for God and got no for an answer.

43 I ground them to dust; they gusted in the wind. I threw them out, like garbage in the gutter.

44 You rescued me from a squabbling people; you made me a leader of nations. People I'd never heard of served me;

45 the moment they got wind of me they submitted.

46 They gave up; they came trembling from their hideouts.

47 Live, God! Blessing to my Rock, my towering Salvation-God!

48 This God set things right for me and shut up the people who talked back.

49 He rescued me from enemy anger. You pulled me from the grip of upstarts, You saved me from the bullies.

50 That's why I'm thanking you, God, all over the world. That's why I'm singing songs that rhyme your name.

51 God's king takes the trophy; God's chosen is beloved. I mean David and all his children - always.

English Standard Version ESV

1 And David spoke to the Lord the words of this song on the day when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul.

2 He said, “The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer,

3 my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold and my refuge, my savior; you save me from violence.

4 I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies.

5 “For the waves of death encompassed me, the torrents of destruction assailed me;

6 the cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.

7 “In my distress I called upon the Lord; to my God I called. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry came to his ears.

8 “Then the earth reeled and rocked; the foundations of the heavens trembled and quaked, because he was angry.

9 Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from his mouth; glowing coals flamed forth from him.

10 He bowed the heavens and came down; thick darkness was under his feet.

11 He rode on a cherub and flew; he was seen on the wings of the wind.

12 He made darkness around him his canopy, thick clouds, a gathering of water.

13 Out of the brightness before him coals of fire flamed forth.

14 The Lord thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered his voice.

15 And he sent out arrows and scattered them; lightning, and routed them.

16 Then the channels of the sea were seen; the foundations of the world were laid bare, at the rebuke of the Lord, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

17 “He sent from on high, he took me; he drew me out of many waters.

18 He rescued me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me.

19 They confronted me in the day of my calamity, but the Lord was my support.

20 He brought me out into a broad place; he rescued me, because he delighted in me.

21 “The Lord dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he rewarded me.

22 For I have kept the ways of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God.

23 For all his rules were before me, and from his statutes I did not turn aside.

24 I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from guilt.

25 And the Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in his sight.

26 “With the merciful you show yourself merciful; with the blameless man you show yourself blameless;

27 with the purified you deal purely, and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.

28 You save a humble people, but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.

29 For you are my lamp, O Lord, and my God lightens my darkness.

30 For by you I can run against a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall.

31 This God— his way is perfect; the word of the Lord proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.

32 “For who is God, but the Lord? And who is a rock, except our God?

33 This God is my strong refuge and has made my way blameless.

34 He made my feet like the feet of a deer and set me secure on the heights.

35 He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

36 You have given me the shield of your salvation, and your gentleness made me great.

37 You gave a wide place for my steps under me, and my feet did not slip;

38 I pursued my enemies and destroyed them, and did not turn back until they were consumed.

39 I consumed them; I thrust them through, so that they did not rise; they fell under my feet.

40 For you equipped me with strength for the battle; you made those who rise against me sink under me.

41 You made my enemies turn their backs to me, those who hated me, and I destroyed them.

42 They looked, but there was none to save; they cried to the Lord, but he did not answer them.

43 I beat them fine as the dust of the earth; I crushed them and stamped them down like the mire of the streets.

44 “You delivered me from strife with my people; you kept me as the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.

45 Foreigners came cringing to me; as soon as they heard of me, they obeyed me.

46 Foreigners lost heart and came trembling out of their fortresses.

47 “The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation,

48 the God who gave me vengeance and brought down peoples under me,

49 who brought me out from my enemies; you exalted me above those who rose against me; you delivered me from men of violence.

50 “For this I will praise you, O Lord, among the nations, and sing praises to your name.

51 Great salvation he brings to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his offspring forever. ”