2 Samuel 22:2-12

2 et ait Dominus petra mea et robur meum et salvator meus

3 Deus meus fortis meus sperabo in eum scutum meum et cornu salutis meae elevator meus et refugium meum salvator meus de iniquitate liberabis me

4 laudabilem invocabo Dominum et ab inimicis meis salvus ero

5 quia circumdederunt me contritiones mortis torrentes Belial terruerunt me

6 funes inferi circumdederunt me praevenerunt me laquei mortis

7 in tribulatione mea invocabo Dominum et ad Deum meum clamabo et exaudiet de templo suo vocem meam et clamor meus veniet ad aures eius

8 commota est et contremuit terra fundamenta montium concussa sunt et conquassata quoniam iratus est

9 ascendit fumus de naribus eius et ignis de ore eius voravit carbones incensi sunt ab eo

10 et inclinavit caelos et descendit et caligo sub pedibus eius

11 et ascendit super cherubin et volavit et lapsus est super pinnas venti

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

2 Samuel 22:2-12 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.