These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
2 Samuel 22
Tanakh 51 verses
- 1 And spoke unto the words of this song in the day that delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of ;
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and he said: The is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
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The who is my rock, in Him I take refuge; My shield, and my horn of , my high tower, and my refuge; My saviour, Thou savest me from violence.
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Genesis 15:1 Psalm 9:9 Isaiah 32:2 Psalm 46:7 Proverbs 18:10 Luke 1:69 Psalm 46:11 Psalm 59:16 Luke 1:71 Psalm 140:1 2 Samuel 22:49 Hebrews 2:13 Isaiah 12:2 Proverbs 30:5 Psalm 140:4 Psalm 115:9-11 Psalm 71:7 Deuteronomy 33:29 Psalm 14:6 Psalm 27:5 Psalm 61:3 Jeremiah 16:19 Psalm 144:2 Psalm 32:7 Psalm 18:2 Psalm 84:9 Psalm 72:14 2 Samuel 22:51 Titus 3:4 Psalm 140:11 Psalm 28:7 Deuteronomy 32:37 Psalm 46:1 Psalm 5:12 Psalm 3:3 Psalm 55:9 Psalm 86:14 Psalm 84:11 1 Samuel 2:1 Isaiah 45:21 Jeremiah 16:9 Titus 3:6 Luke 1:47 - 4 Praised, I cry, is , And I am saved from mine enemies.
- 5 For the waves of Death compassed me. The floods of Belial assailed me.
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The cords of Sheol surrounded me; The snares of Death confronted me.
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- 7 In my distress I called upon , Yea, I called unto my ; And out of His He heard my voice, And my cry did enter into His ears.
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Then the earth did shake and quake, The foundations of did tremble; They were shaken, because He was wroth.
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- 9 Smoke arose up in His nostrils, And fire out of His mouth did devour; Coals flamed forth from Him.
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He bowed the also, and came down; And thick darkness was under His feet.
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- 11 And He rode upon a cherub, and did fly; Yea, He was seen upon the wings of the wind.
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And He made darkness pavilions round about Him, Gathering of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
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At the brightness before Him Coals of fire flamed forth.
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- 14 The thundered from , And the Most High gave forth His voice.
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And He sent out arrows, and scattered them; Lightning, and discomfited them.
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- 16 And the channels of the sea appeared, The foundations of the world were laid bare By the rebuke of , At the blast of the breath of His nostrils.
- 17 He sent from on high, He took me; He drew me out of many waters;
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He delivered me from mine enemy most strong, From them that hated me, for they were too mighty for me.
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- 19 They confronted me in the day of my calamity; But was a stay unto me.
- 20 He brought me forth also into a large place; He delivered me, because He delighted in me.
- 21 The rewarded me according to my ; According to the cleanness of my hands hath He recompensed me.
- 22 For I have kept the ways of , And have not wickedly departed from my .
- 23 For all His ordinances were before me; And as for His statutes, I did not depart from them.
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And I was single-hearted toward Him, And I kept myself from mine iniquity.
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Therefore hath recompensed me according to my , According to my cleanness in His eyes.
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With the merciful Thou dost show Thyself merciful, With the upright man Thou dost show Thyself upright,
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With the pure Thou dost show Thyself pure; And with the crooked Thou dost show Thyself subtle.
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- 28 And the afflicted people Thou dost ; But Thine eyes are upon the haughty, that Thou mayest humble them.
- 29 For Thou art my lamp, O ; And doth lighten my darkness.
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For by Thee I run upon a troop; By my do I scale a wall.
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- 31 As for , His way is ; The of is tried; He is a shield unto all them that take refuge in Him.
- 32 For who is , ? And who is a Rock, our ?
- 33 The who is my strong fortress, And who letteth my way go forth straight;
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Who maketh my feet like hinds’, And setteth me upon my high places;
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Who traineth my hands for war, So that mine arms do bend a bow of brass.
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Thou hast also given me Thy shield of ; And Thy condescension hath made me great.
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Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, And my feet have not slipped.
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I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; Neither did I turn back till they were consumed.
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And I have consumed them, and smitten them through, that they cannot arise; Yea, they are fallen under my feet.
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- 40 For Thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle; Thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.
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Thou hast also made mine enemies turn their backs unto me; Yea, them that hate me, that I might cut them off.
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They looked, but there was none to ; Even unto , but He answered them not.
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- 43 Then did I beat them small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the streets, and did tread them down.
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Thou also hast delivered me from the contentions of my people; Thou hast kept me to be the head of the nations; A people whom I have not known me.
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2 Samuel 8:1-14 Isaiah 55:5 2 Samuel 3:1 Deuteronomy 28:13 2 Samuel 19:9 2 Samuel 19:14 Acts 5:30-31 Psalm 110:6 Psalm 2:8 Psalm 18:43 Psalm 72:8-9 Romans 9:25 Isaiah 65:1 Romans 15:12 Psalm 60:8-9 2 Samuel 5:1 Revelation 11:15 Hosea 2:23 2 Samuel 18:6-8 Isaiah 60:12 Daniel 7:14 2 Samuel 20:22 2 Samuel 20:1-2 Psalm 2:1-6 Acts 4:25-28 -
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The sons of the stranger dwindle away before me; As soon as they of me, they obey me.
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The sons of the stranger fade away, And come halting out of their close places.
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The liveth, and blessed be my Rock; And exalted be the , my Rock of ;
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Even the that executeth vengeance for me, And bringeth down peoples under me,
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And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies; Yea, Thou liftest me up above them that rise up against me; Thou deliverest me from the violent man.
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Therefore I will give thanks unto Thee, O , among the nations, And will sing praises unto Thy .
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- 51 A tower of is He to His ; And showeth to His anointed, To and to his seed, for evermore.