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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>2 Samuel 22 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_samuel/22.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_samuel/22-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Brenton</a> > 2 Samuel 22</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_samuel/21.htm" title="2 Samuel 21">◄</a> 2 Samuel 22 <a href="../2_samuel/23.htm" title="2 Samuel 23">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/2_samuel/22-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">David’s Song of Deliverance<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And David spoke to the Lord the words of this song, in the day in which the Lord rescued him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And the song was thus: O Lord, my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer,<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>my God; he shall be to me my guard, I will trust in him: <i>he is</i> my protector, and the horn of my salvation, my helper, and my sure refuge; thou shalt save me from the unjust man.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>I will call upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised, and I shall be saved from my enemies.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For the troubles of death compassed me, the floods of iniquity amazed me:<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>the pangs of death surrounded me, the agonies of death prevented me.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>When I am afflicted I will call upon the Lord, and will cry to my God, and he shall hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry shalt come into 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 was troubled and quaked, and the foundations of heaven were confounded and torn asunder, because the Lord was wroth with them.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>There went up a smoke in his wrath, and fire out of his mouth devours: coals were kindled at it.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And he bowed the heavens, and came down, and <i>there was</i> 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 rode upon the cherubs and did fly, and was 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 made darkness his hiding-place; his tabernacle round about him was the darkness of waters, he condensed it with the clouds of the air.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>At the brightness before him coals of fire were kindled.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The Lord thundered out of heaven, and the Most High uttered his voice.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And he sent forth arrows, and scattered them, and he flashed lightning, and dismayed them.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And the channels of the sea were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuke of the Lord, at the blast of the breath of his anger.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>He sent from above and took me; he drew 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 delivered me from my strong enemies, from them that hated me, for they were stronger than I.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The days of my affliction prevented me; but the Lord was my stay.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And he brought me into a wide place, and rescued me, because he delighted in me.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousness; even according to the purity of my hands did he recompense me.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Because, I kept the ways of the Lord, and did not wickedly depart 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 and his ordinances <i>were</i> before me: I departed not from them.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And I shall be blameless before him, and will keep myself from my iniquity.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And the Lord will recompense me according to my righteousness, and according to the purity of my hands in his eye-sight.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>With the holy thou wilt be holy, and with the perfect man thou will be perfect,<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>and with the excellent thou wilt be excellent, and with the froward thou will be froward.<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And thou wilt save the poor people, and wilt bring down the eyes of the haughty.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>For thou, Lord, <i>art</i> my lamp, and the Lord shall shine forth to me in my darkness.<p> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>For by thee shall I run <i>as</i> a girded man, and by my God shall 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>As for the Mighty One, his way <i>is</i> blameless: the word of the Lord <i>is</i> strong <i>and</i> tried in the fire: he is a protector to all that put their trust in him.<p> <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Who <i>is</i> strong, but the Lord? and who will be a Creator except our God?<p> <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><i>It is</i> the Mighty One who strengthens me with might, and has prepared my way without fault.<p> <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>He makes my feet like hart's feet, and sets me upon the high places.<p> <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>He teaches my hands to war, and has broken a brazen bow by my arm.<p> <A name="37"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>And thou hast given me the shield of my salvation, and thy propitious dealing has increased me,<p> <A name="38"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>so as to make room under me for my going, and my legs did not totter.<p> <A name="39"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>I will pursue my enemies, and will utterly destroy them; and I will not turn again till I have consumed them.<p> <A name="40"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>And I will crush them, and they shall not rise; and they shall fall under my feet.<p> <A name="41"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>And thou shalt strengthen me with power for the war; thou shalt cause them that rise up against me to bow down under me.<p> <A name="42"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>And thou hast caused mine enemies to flee before me, even them that hated me, and thou hast slain them.<p> <A name="43"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>They shall cry, and there shall be no helper; to the Lord, but he hearkens not to them.<p> <A name="44"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>And I ground them as the dust of the earth, I beat them small as the mire of the streets.<p> <A name="45"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>And thou shalt deliver me from the striving of the peoples, thou shalt keep me <i>to be</i> the head of the Gentiles: a people which I knew not served me.<p> <A name="46"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>The strange children feigned <i>obedience</i> to me; they hearkened to me as soon as they heard.<p> <A name="47"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>The strange children shall be cast away, and shall be overthrown out of their hiding places.<p> <A name="48"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span>The Lord lives, and blessed <i>be</i> my guardian, and my God, my strong keeper, shall be exalted.<p> <A name="49"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span>The Lord who avenges me <i>is</i> strong, chastening the nations 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 my enemies: and thou shalt set me on high from among those that rise up against me: thou shalt deliver me from the violent man.<p> <A name="51"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-50.htm"><b>50</b></a></span>Therefore will I confess to thee, O Lord, among the Gentiles, and sing to thy name.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/22-51.htm"><b>51</b></a></span>He magnifies the salvation of his king, and works mercy for his anointed, even for David and for his seed for ever.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../2_samuel/21.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Samuel 21"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Samuel 21" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../2_samuel/23.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Samuel 23"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Samuel 23" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>