2 Samuel 22.11
New International Version

Cantique de délivrance de David

¹ David sang to the Lord the words of this song when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.
² He said:
“The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer;

³ my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge,
my shield and the horn of my salvation.
He is my stronghold, my refuge and my savior —
from violent people you save me.

⁴ “I called to the Lord, who is worthy of praise,
and have been saved from my enemies.

⁵ The waves of death swirled about me;
the torrents of destruction overwhelmed me.

⁶ The cords of the grave coiled around me;
the snares of death confronted me.

⁷ “In my distress I called to the Lord;
I called out to my God.
From his temple he heard my voice;
my cry came to his ears.

⁸ The earth trembled and quaked,
the foundations of the heavens shook;
they trembled because he was angry.

⁹ Smoke rose from his nostrils;
consuming fire came from his mouth,
burning coals blazed out of it.

¹⁰ He parted the heavens and came down;
dark clouds were under his feet.

¹¹ He mounted the cherubim and flew;
he soared on the wings of the wind.

¹² He made darkness his canopy around him —
the dark rain clouds of the sky.

¹³ Out of the brightness of his presence
bolts of lightning blazed forth.

¹⁴ The Lord thundered from heaven;
the voice of the Most High resounded.

¹⁵ He shot his arrows and scattered the enemy,
with great bolts of lightning he routed them.

¹⁶ The valleys of the sea were exposed
and the foundations of the earth laid bare
at the rebuke of the Lord,
at the blast of breath from his nostrils.

¹⁷ “He reached down from on high and took hold of me;
he drew me out of deep waters.

¹⁸ He rescued me from my powerful enemy,
from my foes, who were too strong for me.

¹⁹ They confronted me in the day of my disaster,
but the Lord was my support.

²⁰ He brought me out into a spacious place;
he rescued me because he delighted in me.

²¹ “The Lord has dealt with me according to my righteousness;
according to the cleanness of my hands he has rewarded me.

²² For I have kept the ways of the Lord;
I am not guilty of turning from my God.

²³ All his laws are before me;
I have not turned away from his decrees.

²⁴ I have been blameless before him
and have kept myself from sin.

²⁵ The Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness,
according to my cleanness in his sight.

²⁶ “To the faithful you show yourself faithful,
to the blameless you show yourself blameless,

²⁷ to the pure you show yourself pure,
but to the devious you show yourself shrewd.

²⁸ You save the humble,
but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them low.

²⁹ You, Lord, are my lamp;
the Lord turns my darkness into light.

³⁰ With your help I can advance against a troop;
with my God I can scale a wall.

³¹ “As for God, his way is perfect:
The Lord’s word is flawless;
he shields all who take refuge in him.

³² For who is God besides the Lord?
And who is the Rock except our God?

³³ It is God who arms me with strength
and keeps my way secure.

³⁴ He makes my feet like the feet of a deer;
he causes me to stand on the heights.

³⁵ He trains my hands for battle;
my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

³⁶ You make your saving help my shield;
your help has made me great.

³⁷ You provide a broad path for my feet,
so that my ankles do not give way.

³⁸ “I pursued my enemies and crushed them;
I did not turn back till they were destroyed.

³⁹ I crushed them completely, and they could not rise;
they fell beneath my feet.

⁴⁰ You armed me with strength for battle;
you humbled my adversaries before me.

⁴¹ You made my enemies turn their backs in flight,
and I destroyed my foes.

⁴² They cried for help, but there was no one to save them —
to the Lord, but he did not answer.

⁴³ I beat them as fine as the dust of the earth;
I pounded and trampled them like mud in the streets.

⁴⁴ “You have delivered me from the attacks of the peoples;
you have preserved me as the head of nations.
People I did not know now serve me,

⁴⁵ foreigners cower before me;
as soon as they hear of me, they obey me.

⁴⁶ They all lose heart;
they come trembling from their strongholds.

⁴⁷ “The Lord lives! Praise be to my Rock!
Exalted be my God, the Rock, my Savior!

⁴⁸ He is the God who avenges me,
who puts the nations under me,

⁴⁹ who sets me free from my enemies.
You exalted me above my foes;
from a violent man you rescued me.

⁵⁰ Therefore I will praise you, Lord, among the nations;
I will sing the praises of your name.

⁵¹ “He gives his king great victories;
he shows unfailing kindness to his anointed,
to David and his descendants forever.”