2 Samuel 22

¹And David made a song to the Lord in these words, on the day when the Lord made him free from the hands of all his haters, and from the hand of Saul:

²And he said, The Lord is my Rock, my walled town, and my saviour, even mine;

³My God, my Rock, in him will I put my faith; my breastplate, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my safe place; my saviour, who keeps me safe from the violent man.

⁴I will send up my cry to the Lord, who is to be praised; so will I be made safe from those who are against me.

⁵For the waves of death came round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear;

⁶The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.

⁷In my trouble my voice went up to the Lord, and my cry to my God: my voice came to his hearing in his holy Temple, and my prayer came to his ears.

⁸Then the earth was moved with a violent shock; the bases of heaven were moved and shaking, because he was angry.

⁹There went up a smoke from his nose, and a fire of destruction from his mouth: coals were lighted by it.

¹⁰The heavens were bent, so that he might come down; and it was dark under his feet.

¹¹And he went through the air, seated on a storm-cloud: going quickly on the wings of the wind.

¹²And he made the dark his tent round him, a mass of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

¹³Before his shining light his dark clouds went past, raining ice and coals of fire.