2 Samuel 22:43-51

43 Et je les broie comme la poussière de la terre; je les écrase, je les foule comme la boue des rues.

44 Tu me sauves des dissensions de mon peuple; tu me gardes pour être chef des nations. Le peuple que je ne connaissais pas, m'est assujetti.

45 Les fils de l'étranger viennent me flatter; dès que leur oreille a entendu, ils se sont soumis.

46 Les fils de l'étranger défaillent, et sortent tremblants de leurs retraites.

47 L'Éternel est vivant! Et béni soit mon rocher! Que Dieu, le rocher de mon salut, soit exalté!

48 Le Dieu qui me donne vengeance, et qui m'assujettit les peuples; qui me fait échapper à mes ennemis.

49 Tu m'élèves au-dessus de mes adversaires, tu me délivres de l'homme violent.

50 C'est pourquoi, ô Éternel, je te louerai parmi les nations, et je chanterai ton nom!

51 C'est lui qui délivre magnifiquement son roi, et qui fait miséricorde à son oint, à David et à sa postérité, à jamais!

2 Samuel 22:43-51 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.