2 Samuel 22:36-46

36 Também me deste o escudo da tua salvação, e tua brandura me engrandece.

37 Alargaste os meus passos debaixo de mim, e não vacilaram os meus artelhos.

38 Persegui os meus inimigos e os destruí, e nunca voltei atrás sem que os consumisse.

39 Eu os consumi, e os atravessei, de modo que nunca mais se levantaram; sim, cairam debaixo dos meus pés.

40 Pois tu me cingiste de força para a peleja; prostraste debaixo de mim os que se levantaram contra mim.

41 Fizeste que me voltassem as costas os meus inimigos, aqueles que me odiavam, para que eu os destruísse.

42 Olharam ao redor, mas não houve quem os salvasse; clamaram ao Senhor, mas ele não lhes respondeu.

43 Então os moí como o pó da terra; como a lama das ruas os trilhei e dissipei.

44 Também me livraste das contendas do meu povo; guardaste-me para ser o cabeça das nações; um povo que eu não conhecia me serviu.

45 Estrangeiros, com adulação, se submeteram a mim; ao ouvirem de mim, me obedeceram.

46 Os estrangeiros desfaleceram e, tremendo, sairam os seus esconderijos.

2 Samuel 22:36-46 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.