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 tim... [ Continue Reading ]
AND DAVID SPAKE UNTO THE LORD THE WORDS OF THIS SONG IN THE DAY [THAT]
THE LORD HAD DELIVERED HIM OUT OF THE HAND OF ALL HIS ENEMIES, AND OUT
OF THE HAND OF SAUL. Psalms 18:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID, THE LORD [IS] MY ROCK, AND MY FORTRESS, AND MY DELIVERER.
Psalms 18:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE GOD OF MY ROCK; IN HIM WILL I TRUST: [HE IS] MY SHIELD,
AND THE HORN OF MY SALVATION, MY HIGH TOWER, AND MY REFUGE, MY
SAVIOUR;
THOU SAVEST ME FROM VIOLENCE. Psalms 18:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
I WILL CALL ON THE LORD, [WHO IS] WORTHY TO BE PRAISED: SO SHALL I BE
SAVED FROM MINE ENEMIES. Psalms 18:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN THE WAVES OF DEATH COMPASSED ME, THE FLOODS OF UNGODLY MEN MADE
ME AFRAID. Psalms 18:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SORROWS OF HELL COMPASSED ME ABOUT; THE SNARES OF DEATH PREVENTED
ME. Psalms 18:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN MY DISTRESS I CALLED UPON THE LORD, AND CRIED TO MY GOD:
AND HE DID HEAR MY VOICE OUT OF HIS TEMPLE, AND MY CRY [DID ENTER]
INTO HIS EARS. Psalms 18:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN THE EARTH SHOOK AND TREMBLED; THE FOUNDATIONS OF HEAVEN MOVED AND
SHOOK, BECAUSE HE WAS WROTH. Psalms 18:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE WENT UP A SMOKE OUT OF HIS NOSTRILS, AND FIRE OUT OF HIS MOUTH
DEVOURED: COALS WERE KINDLED BY IT. Psalms 18:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE BOWED THE HEAVENS ALSO, AND CAME DOWN; AND DARKNESS [WAS] UNDER HIS
FEET. Psalms 18:9.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE RODE UPON A CHERUB, AND DID FLY: AND HE WAS SEEN UPON THE WINGS
OF THE WIND. Psalms 18:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE MADE DARKNESS PAVILIONS ROUND ABOUT HIM, DARK WATERS,
[AND] THICK CLOUDS OF THE SKIES. Psalms 18:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
THROUGH THE BRIGHTNESS BEFORE HIM WERE COALS OF FIRE KINDLED. Psalms
18:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD THUNDERED FROM HEAVEN, AND THE MOST HIGH UTTERED HIS VOICE.
Psalms 18:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SENT OUT ARROWS, AND SCATTERED THEM; LIGHTNING, AND DISCOMFITED
THEM. Psalms 18:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE CHANNELS OF THE SEA APPEARED, THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE WORLD
WERE DISCOVERED, AT THE REBUKING OF THE LORD, AT THE BLAST OF THE
BREATH OF HIS NOSTRILS. Psalms 18:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE SENT FROM ABOVE, HE TOOK ME; HE DREW ME OUT OF MANY WATERS. Psalms
18:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE DELIVERED ME FROM MY STRONG ENEMY, [AND] FROM THEM THAT HATED ME:
FOR THEY WERE TOO STRONG FOR ME. Psalms 18:17.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY PREVENTED ME IN THE DAY OF MY CALAMITY: BUT THE LORD WAS MY STAY.
Psalms 18:18.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE BROUGHT ME FORTH ALSO INTO A LARGE PLACE: HE DELIVERED ME,
BECAUSE HE DELIGHTED IN ME. Psalms 18:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD REWARDED ME ACCORDING TO MY RIGHTEOUSNESS: ACCORDING TO THE
CLEANNESS OF MY HANDS HATH HE RECOMPENSED ME.
Psalms 18:20.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR I HAVE KEPT THE WAYS OF THE LORD, AND HAVE NOT WICKEDLY DEPARTED
FROM MY GOD. Psalms 18:21.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR ALL HIS JUDGMENTS [WERE] BEFORE ME: AND [AS FOR] HIS STATUTES, I
DID NOT DEPART FROM THEM. Psalms 18:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
I WAS ALSO UPRIGHT BEFORE HIM, AND HAVE KEPT MYSELF FROM MINE
INIQUITY. Psalms 18:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE THE LORD HATH RECOMPENSED ME ACCORDING TO MY RIGHTEOUSNESS;
ACCORDING TO MY CLEANNESS IN HIS EYE SIGHT.
Psalms 18:24.... [ Continue Reading ]
WITH THE MERCIFUL THOU WILT SHOW THYSELF MERCIFUL, [AND] WITH THE
UPRIGHT MAN THOU WILT SHOW THYSELF UPRIGHT.
Psalms 18:25.... [ Continue Reading ]
WITH THE PURE THOU WILT SHOW THYSELF PURE; AND WITH THE FROWARD THOU
WILT SHOW THYSELF UNSAVOURY. Psalms 18:26.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE AFFLICTED PEOPLE THOU WILT SAVE: BUT THINE EYES [ARE] UPON THE
HAUGHTY, [THAT] THOU MAYEST BRING [THEM] DOWN.
Psalms 18:27.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THOU [ART] MY LAMP, O LORD: AND THE LORD WILL LIGHTEN MY DARKNESS.
Psalms 18:28.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR BY THEE I HAVE RUN THROUGH A TROOP: BY MY GOD HAVE I LEAPED OVER A
WALL. Psalms 18:29.... [ Continue Reading ]
[AS FOR] GOD, HIS WAY [IS] PERFECT; THE WORD OF THE LORD [IS] TRIED:
HE [IS] A BUCKLER TO ALL THEM THAT TRUST IN HIM.
Psalms 18:30.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WHO [IS] GOD, SAVE THE LORD? AND WHO [IS] A ROCK, SAVE OUR GOD?]
Psalms 18:31.... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD [IS] MY STRENGTH [AND] POWER: AND HE MAKETH MY WAY PERFECT. Psalms
18:32.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE MAKETH MY FEET LIKE HINDS' [FEET]: AND SETTETH ME UPON MY HIGH
PLACES. Psalms 18:33.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE TEACHETH MY HANDS TO WAR; SO THAT A BOW OF STEEL IS BROKEN BY MINE
ARMS. Psalms 18:34.... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU HAST ALSO GIVEN ME THE SHIELD OF THY SALVATION: AND THY
GENTLENESS HATH MADE ME GREAT. Psalms 18:35.... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU HAST ENLARGED MY STEPS UNDER ME; SO THAT MY FEET DID NOT SLIP.
Psalms 18:36.... [ Continue Reading ]
I HAVE PURSUED MINE ENEMIES, AND DESTROYED THEM; AND TURNED NOT AGAIN
UNTIL I HAD CONSUMED THEM. Psalms 18:37.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I HAVE CONSUMED THEM, AND WOUNDED THEM, THAT THEY COULD NOT ARISE:
YEA, THEY ARE FALLEN UNDER MY FEET.
Psalms 18:38.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THOU HAST GIRDED ME WITH STRENGTH TO BATTLE: THEM THAT ROSE UP
AGAINST ME HAST THOU SUBDUED UNDER ME.
Psalms 18:39.... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU HAST ALSO GIVEN ME THE NECKS OF MINE ENEMIES, THAT I MIGHT
DESTROY THEM THAT HATE ME. Psalms 18:40.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY LOOKED, BUT [THERE WAS] NONE TO SAVE; [EVEN] UNTO THE LORD, BUT
HE ANSWERED THEM NOT. Psalms 18:41.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN DID I BEAT THEM AS SMALL AS THE DUST OF THE EARTH, I DID STAMP
THEM AS THE MIRE OF THE STREET, [AND] DID SPREAD THEM ABROAD.
Psalms 18:42.... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU ALSO HAST DELIVERED ME FROM THE STRIVINGS OF MY PEOPLE,
THOU HAST KEPT ME [TO BE] HEAD OF THE HEATHEN: A PEOPLE [WHICH] I KNEW
NOT SHALL SERVE ME. Psalms 18:43.... [ Continue Reading ]
STRANGERS SHALL SUBMIT THEMSELVES UNTO ME: AS SOON AS THEY HEAR, THEY
SHALL BE OBEDIENT UNTO ME. Psalms 18:44.... [ Continue Reading ]
STRANGERS SHALL FADE AWAY, AND THEY SHALL BE AFRAID OUT OF THEIR CLOSE
PLACES. Psalms 18:45.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD LIVETH; AND BLESSED [BE] MY ROCK; AND EXALTED BE THE GOD OF
THE ROCK OF MY SALVATION. Psalms 18:46.... [ Continue Reading ]
IT [IS] GOD THAT AVENGETH ME, AND THAT BRINGETH DOWN THE PEOPLE UNDER
ME. Psalms 18:47.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THAT BRINGETH ME FORTH FROM MINE ENEMIES: THOU ALSO HAST LIFTED ME
UP ON HIGH ABOVE THEM THAT ROSE UP AGAINST ME: THOU HAST DELIVERED ME
FROM THE VIOLENT MAN. Psalms 18:48.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE I WILL GIVE THANKS UNTO THEE, O LORD, AMONG THE HEATHEN, AND
I WILL SING PRAISES UNTO THY NAME.
Psalms 18:49.... [ Continue Reading ]
[HE IS] THE TOWER OF SALVATION FOR HIS KING: AND SHOWETH MERCY TO HIS
ANOINTED, UNTO DAVID, AND TO HIS SEED FOR EVERMORE.
Psalms 18:50.... [ Continue Reading ]