2 Samuel 22:8-18

8 Então se abalou e tremeu a terra, os fundamentos dos céus se moveram; abalaram-se porque ele se irou.

9 Das suas narinas subiu fumaça, e da sua boca um fogo devorador, que pôs carvões em chamas.

10 Ele abaixou os céus, e desceu; e havia escuridão debaixo dos seus pés.

11 Montou num querubim, e voou; apareceu sobre as asas do vento.

12 E por tendas pôs trevas ao redor de si, ajuntamento de águas, espessas nuvens do céu.

13 Pelo resplendor da sua presença acenderam-se brasas de fogo.

14 Do céu trovejou o Senhor, o Altíssimo fez soar a sua vóz.

15 Disparou flechas, e os dissipou; raios, e os desbaratou.

16 Então apareceram as profundezas do mar; os fundamentos do mundo se descobriram, pela repreensão do Senhor, pelo assopro do vento das suas narinas.

17 Estendeu do alto a sua mão e tomou-me; tirou-me das muitas águas.

18 Livrou-me do meu possante inimigo, e daqueles que me odiavam; porque eram fortes demais para mim.

2 Samuel 22:8-18 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.