2 Kings 22

¹And David spake to our Lord the words of this song, in the day that our Lord delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul.

²And he said: Our Lord is my rock, and my strength, and my Saviour.

³God is my strong one, I will hope in him: my shield, and the horn of my salvation: my lifter up, and my refuge: my Saviour, from iniquity thou wilt deliver me.

⁴Our Lord praise-worthy will I invocate: and from mine enemies I shall be saved.

⁵Because the pangs of death have compassed me: the streams of Belial have terrified me.

⁶The ropes of hell have compassed me: the snares of death have prevented me.

⁷In my tribulation I will invocate our Lord, & I will cry to my God: and he will hear my voice out of his holy temple, and my cry shall come to his ears.

⁸The earth quaked and trembled, the foundations of the mountains were strucken, and shaken, because he was angry with them.

⁹Asmoke arose out of his nostrils, and a fire from his mouth shall devour: coals were kindled from him.

¹⁰And he bowed the heavens, and descended: and mist under his feet.

¹¹And he ascended upon the Cherubins, and flew: and slid over the wings of the wind.

¹²He put darkness round about him a cover: stilling waters out of the clouds of heaven.

¹³By the shining in his presence: the coals of fire were kindled.

¹⁴Our Lord will thunder from heaven: and the high one will give his voice.

¹⁵He shot his arrows and dispersed them: lightning, and consumed them.

¹⁶And the overflowings of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were discovered at the rebuking of our Lord, at the breathing of the spirit of his fury.

¹⁷He sent from high heaven, and took me, and drew me out of many waters.

¹⁸He delivered me from my most mighty enemy, and from them that hated me: because they were stronger than I.

¹⁹He prevented me in the day of my affliction, and our Lord became my stay.

²⁰And he brought me forth into latitude, he delivered me, because I well pleased him.

²¹Our Lord will reward me according to my justice: and according to the cleanness of my hands will he render to me.

²²Because I have kept the ways of our Lord, and have not done impiously, from my God.

²³For all his judgments are in my sight: and his precepts I have not removed from me.

²⁴And I shall be perfect with him; and shall keep myself from mine iniquity.

²⁵And our Lord will restore unto me according to my justice: and according to the cleanness of my hands in the sight of his eyes.

²⁶With the holy one thou shalt be holy: and with the strong perfect.

²⁷With the elect thou shalt be elect: and with the perverse thou shalt be perverted.

²⁸And the poor people thou wilt save: and the haughty in thine eyes thou wilt humble.

²⁹Because thou art my lamp, o Lord: and thou wilt illuminate my darkness.

³⁰For in thee I will run girded: in my God I will leap over the wall.

³¹God, his way immaculate, the word of our Lord is examined by fire: he is the shield of all that trust in him.

³²Who is God beside our Lord: and who is strong beside our God?

³³God who hath girded me with strength: and made even my perfect way.

³⁴Making my feet equal with the harts, and setting me upon my high places.

³⁵Teaching my hands unto battle: and framing mine arms as it were a brazen bow.

³⁶Thou hast given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy mildness hath multiplied me.

³⁷Thou shalt enlarge my steps under me: and mine ankles shall not fail.

³⁸I will pursue mine enemies, and bruise them: and will not return till I consume them.

³⁹I will consume and break them, that they rise not: they shall fall under my feet.

⁴⁰Thou hast girded me with strength to battle: thou hast bowed under me them that resist me.

⁴¹Mine enemies thou hast made to turn to me the back: them that hated me, and I shall destroy them.

⁴²They shall cry, and there shall not be to save, to our Lord, and he will not hear them.

⁴³I will destroy them as the dust of the earth: as the mire of the streets will I bruise and break them.

⁴⁴Thou wilt save me from the contradictions of my people: thou wilt keep me to be the head of the Gentiles: the people which I know not, will serve me.

⁴⁵The children aliens will resist me, with the hearing of the ear they will obey me.

⁴⁶The children aliens are fallen away, and shall be straitened in their distresses.

⁴⁷Our Lord liveth, and my God is blessed: and the strong God of my salvation shall be exalted.

⁴⁸God which givest me revenges, and throwest down peoples under me.

⁴⁹Which bringest me out from mine enemies, and from them that resist me dost lift me up: from the wicked man thou shalt deliver me.

⁵⁰Therefore will I confess unto thee, o Lord, among the Gentiles, and will sing to thy name.

⁵¹Magnifying the salvations of his king, and doing mercy to his Christ David, and to his seed for ever.