2 Samuel 22:26-36

26 cum sancto sanctus eris et cum robusto perfectus

27 cum electo electus eris et cum perverso perverteris

28 et populum pauperem salvum facies oculisque tuis excelsos humiliabis

29 quia tu lucerna mea Domine et Domine inluminabis tenebras meas

30 in te enim curram accinctus in Deo meo transiliam murum

31 Deus inmaculata via eius eloquium Domini igne examinatum scutum est omnium sperantium in se

32 quis est deus praeter Dominum et quis fortis praeter Deum nostrum

33 Deus qui accingit me fortitudine et conplanavit perfectam viam meam

34 coaequans pedes meos cervis et super excelsa mea statuens me

35 docens manus meas ad proelium et conponens quasi arcum aereum brachia mea

36 dedisti mihi clypeum salutis tuae et mansuetudo mea multiplicavit me

2 Samuel 22:26-36 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.