2 Samuel 22:12-22

12 posuit tenebras in circuitu suo latibulum cribrans aquas de nubibus caelorum

13 prae fulgore in conspectu eius succensi sunt carbones ignis

14 tonabit de caelis Dominus et Excelsus dabit vocem suam

15 misit sagittas et dissipavit eos fulgur et consumpsit eos

16 et apparuerunt effusiones maris et revelata sunt fundamenta orbis ab increpatione Domini ab inspiratione spiritus furoris eius

17 misit de excelso et adsumpsit me extraxit me de aquis multis

18 liberavit me ab inimico meo potentissimo ab his qui oderant me quoniam robustiores me erant

19 praevenit me in die adflictionis meae et factus est Dominus firmamentum meum

20 et eduxit me in latitudinem liberavit me quia placuit ei

21 retribuet mihi Dominus secundum iustitiam meam et secundum munditiam manuum mearum reddet mihi

22 quia custodivi vias Domini et non egi impie a Deo meo

2 Samuel 22:12-22 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.