2 Samuel 22:40-50

40 Pues tú me has ceñido con fuerza para la batalla; has subyugado debajo de mí a los que contra mí se levantaron.

41 También has hecho que mis enemigos me vuelvan las espaldas, y destruí a los que me odiaban.

42 Clamaron, mas no hubo quién los salvara; aun al SEÑOR clamaron, mas no les respondió.

43 Entonces los pulvericé, como polvo de la tierra, como lodo de las calles los trituré y los pisé.

44 Tú me has librado también de las contiendas de mi pueblo; me has guardado para ser cabeza de naciones; pueblo que yo no conocía me sirve.

45 Los extranjeros me fingen obediencia, al oírme, me obedecen.

46 Los extranjeros desfallecen, y salen temblando de sus fortalezas.

47 El SEÑOR vive, bendita sea mi roca, y ensalzado sea Dios, roca de mi salvación,

48 el Dios que por mí hace venganza, y hace caer pueblos debajo de mí;

49 el que me libra de mis enemigos. Tú me exaltas sobre los que se levantan contra mí; me rescatas del hombre violento.

50 Por tanto, te alabaré, oh SEÑOR, entre las naciones, y cantaré alabanzas a tu nombre.

2 Samuel 22:40-50 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.