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2 Samuel 22

Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible RHE

1 And David spoke to the Lord the words of this canticle, in the day that the Lord delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul,

2 And he said: The Lord is my rock, and my strength, and my saviour.

3 God is my strong one, in him will I trust: my shield, and the horn of my salvation: he lifteth me up, and is my refuge: my saviour, thou wilt deliver me from iniquity.

4 I will call on the Lord who is worthy to be praised: and I shall be saved from my enemies.

5 For the pangs of death have surrounded me: the floods of Belial have made me afraid.

6 The cords of hell compassed me: the snares of death prevented me.

7 In my distress I will call upon the Lord, and I will cry to my God: and he will hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry shall come to his ears.

8 The earth shook and trembled, the foundations of the mountains were moved, and shaken, because he was angry with them.

9 A smoke went up from his nostrils, and a devouring fire out of his mouth: coals were kindled by it.

10 He bowed the heavens, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.

11 And he rode upon the cherubims, and flew: and slid upon the wings of the wind.

12 He made darkness a covering round about him: dropping waters out of the clouds of the heavens.

13 By the brightness before him, the coals of fire were kindled.

14 The Lord shall thunder from heaven: and the most high shall give forth his voice.

15 He shot arrows and scattered them: lightning, and consumed them.

16 And the overflowings of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were laid open at the rebuke of the Lord, at the blast of the spirit of his wrath.

17 He sent from on high, and took me, and drew me out of many waters.

18 He delivered me from my most mighty enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.

19 He prevented me in the day of my affliction, and the Lord became my stay.

20 And he brought me forth into a large place, he delivered me, because I pleased him.

21 The Lord will reward me according to my justice: and according to the cleanness of my hands he will render to me.

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

23 For all his judgments are in my sight: and his precepts I have not removed from me.

24 And I shall be perfect with him: and shall keep myself from my iniquity.

25 And the Lord will recompense me according to my justice: and according to the cleanness of my hands in the sight of his eyes.

26 With the holy one thou wilt be holy: and with the valiant perfect.

27 With the elect thou wilt be elect: and with the perverse thou wilt be perverted.

28 And the poor people thou wilt save: and with thy eyes thou shalt humble the haughty.

29 For thou art my lamp O Lord: and thou, O Lord, wilt enlighten my darkness.

30 For in thee I will run girded: in my God I will leap over the wall.

31 God, his way is immaculate, the word of the Lord is tried by fire: he is the shield of all that trust in him.

32 Who is God but the Lord: and who is strong but our God?

33 God who hath girded me with strength, and made my way perfect.

34 Making my feet like the feet of harts, and setting me upon my high places.

35 He teacheth my hands to war: and maketh my arms like a bow of brass.

36 Thou hast given me the shield of my salvation: and thy mildness hath multiplied me.

37 Thou shalt enlarge my steps under me: and my ankles shall not fail.

38 I will pursue after my enemies, and crush them: and will not return again till I consume them.

39 I will consume them and break them in pieces, so that they shall not rise: they shall fall under my feet.

40 Thou hast girded me with strength to battle: thou hast made them that resisted me to bow under me.

41 My enemies thou hast made to turn their back to me: them that hated me, and I shall destroy them.

42 They shall cry, and there shall be none to save: to the Lord, and he shall not hear them.

43 I shall beat them as small as the dust of the earth: I shall crush them and spread them abroad like the mire of the streets.

44 Thou wilt save me from the contradictions of my people: thou wilt keep me to be the head of the Gentiles: the people which I know not, shall serve me,

45 The sons of the stranger will resist me, at the hearing of the ear they will obey me.

46 The strangers are melted away, and shall be straitened in their distresses.

47 The Lord liveth, and my God is blessed: and the strong God of my salvation shall be exalted:

48 God who giveth me revenge, and bringest down people under me,

49 Who bringest me forth from my enemies, and liftest me up from them that resist me: from the wicked man thou shalt deliver me.

50 Therefore will I give thanks to thee, O Lord, among the Gentiles, and will sing to thy name.

51 Giving great salvation to his king, and shewing mercy to David his anointed, and to his seed for ever.

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.