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The snares of death caught me.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>In my distress I called upon the LORD, and I cried out to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came into his ears.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations of the mountains quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Smoke went up out of his nostrils. Fire out of his mouth devoured. Coals were kindled by it.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>He rode on a cherub, and flew; and he glided on the wings of the wind.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>He made darkness his hiding place, his canopy around him thick clouds dark with water.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>From the brightness before him his thick clouds passed on, with hailstones and coals of fire.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The LORD thundered from heaven. The Most High uttered his voice.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And he sent out arrows and scattered them, and he shot lightning bolts and routed them.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then the channels of the sea appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare by the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>He sent from on high and he took me. He drew me out of many waters.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>They came on me in the day of my calamity, but the LORD was my support.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>He also brought me out into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness. He rewarded me according to the cleanness of my hands.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For all his ordinances were before me, and his statutes I did not put away from me.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>I was also perfect toward him. I kept myself from my iniquity.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Therefore the LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>With the faithful you show yourself faithful. With the innocent you show yourself innocent.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>With the pure you show yourself pure. And with the crooked you show yourself tortuous.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>You will save the afflicted people, But your eyes are on the proud, that you may bring them down.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>For you light my lamp. The LORD my God lights up my darkness.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>For by you, I run against a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>As for God, his way is perfect. The word of the LORD is pure. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>For who is God, besides the LORD? Who is a rock, besides our God,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>the God who girds me with strength, and makes my way blameless? <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>He makes my feet like those of a deer, and sets me on my high places.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>You have also given me the shield of your salvation, and your right hand holds me up, and your help has made me great.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>You have enlarged my steps under me. My feet have not slipped.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>I pursued my enemies and overtook them, and I did not turn back until they were destroyed.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>And I consumed them, and struck them through, so that they did not rise. And they fell beneath my feet.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>For you have equipped me with strength for the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>They cry out, but there was none to save; even to the LORD, but he did not answer them.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>Then I ground them as fine as the dust on the surface of a path. Like the mud in the streets, I trampled them.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people. You have kept me to be the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known will serve me;<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>as soon as they hear of me they obey me. Foreigners come cringing to me;<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>they are not bound in chains.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span>The LORD lives. Blessed be my rock. Exalted be God, the rock of my salvation,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span>even the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues peoples under me,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-49.htm"><b>49</b></a></span>who brings me away from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You protect me from the violent man.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-50.htm"><b>50</b></a></span>Therefore I will praise you, LORD, among the nations, and will sing praises to your name.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/2_samuel/22-51.htm"><b>51</b></a></span>He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his descendants, until forever."<p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><a href="//nheb.net/">New Heart English Bible</a><br />Edited by Wayne A. 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