2 Samuel 22:20-30

20 Conduziu-me para um lugar espaçoso; livrou-me, porque tinha prazer em mim.

21 Recompensou-me o Senhor conforme a minha justiça; conforme a pureza e minhas mãos me retribuiu.

22 Porque guardei os caminhos do Senhor, e não me apartei impiamente do meu Deus.

23 Pois todos os seus preceitos estavam diante de mim, e dos seus estatutos não me desviei.

24 Fui perfeito para com ele, e guardei-me da minha iniqüidade.

25 Por isso me retribuiu o Senhor conforme a minha justiça, conforme a minha pureza diante dos meus olhos.

26 Para com o benigno te mostras benigno; para com o perfeito te mostras perfeito,

27 para com o puro te mostras puro, mas para com o perverso te mostras avesso.

28 Livrarás o povo que se humilha, mas teus olhos são contra os altivos, e tu os abaterás.

29 Porque tu, Senhor, és a minha candeia; e o Senhor alumiará as minhas trevas.

30 Pois contigo passarei pelo meio dum esquadrão; com o meu Deus transporei um muro.

2 Samuel 22:20-30 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.