2 Sam 22:39 "And I have devoured them and shattered them, so that they did not rise; And they fell under my feet.
2 Sam 22:40 "For You have girded me with strength for battle; You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
2 Sam 22:41 "You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, And I destroyed those who hated me.
2 Sam 22:42 "They looked, but there was none to save; Even to the LORD, but He did not answer them.
2 Sam 22:43 "Then I pulverized them as the dust of the earth; I crushed and stamped them as the mire of the streets.
2 Sam 22:44 "You have also delivered me from the contentions of my people; You have kept me as head of the nations; A people whom I have not known serve me.
2 Sam 22:45 "Foreigners pretend obedience to me; As soon as they hear, they obey me.
2 Sam 22:46 "Foreigners lose heart, And come trembling out of their fortresses.
2 Sam 22:47 "The LORD lives, and blessed be my rock; And exalted be God, the rock of my salvation,
2 Sam 22:48 The God who executes vengeance for me, And brings down peoples under me,
2 Sam 22:49 Who also brings me out from my enemies; You even lift me above those who rise up against me; You rescue me from the violent man.
2 Sam 22:50 "Therefore I will give thanks to You, O LORD, among the nations, And I will sing praises to Your name.
2 Sam 22:51 "He is a tower of deliverance to His king, And shows lovingkindness to His anointed, To David and his descendants forever."
2 Sam 23:1 Now these are the last words of David. David the son of Jesse declares, The man who was raised on high declares, The anointed of the God of Jacob, And the sweet psalmist of Israel,
2 Sam 23:2 "The Spirit of the LORD spoke by me, And His word was on my tongue.
2 Sam 23:3 "The God of Israel said, The Rock of Israel spoke to me, 'He who rules over men righteously, Who rules in the fear of God,
2 Sam 23:4 Is as the light of the morning when the sun rises, A morning without clouds, When the tender grass springs out of the earth, Through sunshine after rain.'
2 Sam 23:5 "Truly is not my house so with God? For He has made an everlasting covenant with me, Ordered in all things, and secured; For all my salvation and all my desire, Will He not indeed make it grow?
2 Sam 23:6 "But the worthless, every one of them will be thrust away like thorns, Because they cannot be taken in hand;
2 Sam 23:7 But the man who touches them Must be armed with iron and the shaft of a spear, And they will be completely burned with fire in their place."