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2 Samuel 22 Smith's Literal Translation
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I will trust in him: My shield and the horn of my salvation, my height and my refuge; My saviour; thou wilt save me from violence.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Praising, I will call Jehovah and shall be saved from mine enemies.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For the breakers of death surrounded me The torrents of Beilal will terrify me;<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The pangs of hades surrounded me; The snares of death anticipated me;<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>In straits to me I will call Jehovah, And to God will I call, And he will hear my voice from his temple, And my cry in his ears.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And the earth will shake and tremble, The foundation of the heavens will be disturbed, And they will shake, for it kindled to him.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Smoke went up in his anger, And fire from his mouth shall consume: Coals were kindled from it.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He will incline the heavens and come down; And darkness under his feet.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And he will ride upon a cherub and fly: And he will be seen upon the wings of the wind.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And he will set darkness round about him for booths, The gatherings of waters the darkness of clouds.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>From the shining before him were coals of fire kindled:<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Jehovah will thunder from the heavens, And the Most High will give his voice.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>He will send arrows and scatter them lightning, and put them in commotion.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The torrents of the sea will be seen, The foundations of the habitable globe will be uncovered, In the rebuke of Jehovah, from the breath of the spirit of his anger.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>He will send from height, he will take me; He will draw me out of many waters:<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>He will deliver me from my strong enemy, From them hating me, for they were strong above me.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>They will anticipate me in the day of misfortune, And Jehovah will be a support to me:<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And he will bring me forth to a wide place; He will deliver me for he delighted in me.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Jehovah will recompense me according to my justice: According to the cleanness of my hands he turned back to me.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>For I have watched the ways of Jehovah, And I acted not wickedly away from my God.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For all his judgments before me, And his laws I will not depart from them.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And I will be blameless to him, and I shall be washed from mine iniquity.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Jehovah will turn back to me according to my justice: According to my cleanness before his eyes.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>With the merciful thou wilt be merciful, With the perfect man thou wilt be perfect.<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>With the chosen thou wilt be chosen, And with the perverse thou wilt be unseasoned.<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And the people of affliction thou wilt save: And thine eyes upon the lifted up, thou wilt humble.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>For thou my light, O Jehovah: And Jehovah will enlighten my darkness.<p> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>For in thee will I run, being pressed In my God will I leap over a wall.<p> <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>The Strong One, blameless his way The saying of Jehovah purified, A shield to all trusting in him.<p> <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>For who God besides Jehovah? And who a rock besides our God?<p> <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>The Strong One strengthening me with strength: And he will leave his way blameless.<p> <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Setting my feet as the hinds: And upon the heights will he cause me to stand.<p> <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Teaching my hands to the war, And bringing down the brazen bow by mine arm.<p> <A name="37"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>And thou wilt give to me the shield of thy salvation, and thine answer will multiply me.<p> <A name="38"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>Thou wilt enlarge my steps under me, And my joints were not unsteady.<p> <A name="39"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>I will pursue mine enemies and destroy them I will not turn back even to finishing them.<p> <A name="40"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>And I will consume them and crush them, and they shall not be raised up.<p> <A name="41"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>Thou wilt fasten me together with strength for the war, Thou wilt subdue under me him rising up against me.<p> <A name="42"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>And the neck of mine enemies wilt thou give to me Those hating me, and I will cut them off.<p> <A name="43"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>They will look, and no saviour To Jehovah, and he answered them not.<p> <A name="44"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>And I will rub them as the dust of the earth: As the mire of the streets I will stamp them, I will beat them:<p> <A name="45"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>And thou wilt save me from the strifes of my people, Thou wilt watch me for the head of nations: The people I have not known shall serve me.<p> <A name="46"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>The sons of the stranger will lie to me: For the hearing of the ear they will hear to me.<p> <A name="47"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>The sons of the stranger shall fail, and be girded from their enclosings.<p> <A name="48"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span>Jehovah living; and praised my rock: And God shall be lifted up, the rock of my salvation.<p> <A name="49"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span>The Strong One giving vengeance to me, And bringing down peoples under me.<p> <A name="50"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-49.htm"><b>49</b></a></span>And bringing me out from mine enemies lifting me up from them rising up against me: From the man of violence thou wilt deliver me.<p> <A name="51"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-50.htm"><b>50</b></a></span>For this will I praise thee, O Jehovah, in the nations, to thy name will I play on the harp.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-51.htm"><b>51</b></a></span>Magnifying the salvation of his king: And he has done mercy to his Messiah To David and to his seed even to forever.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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