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2 Samuel 22:34-51 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

34. “Making my feet like the feet of deer, And sets me on my high places,

35. “Teaching my hands for battle, So that my arms bend a bow of bronze.

36. “And You give me the shield of Your deliverance, And Your lowliness makes me great.

37. “You enlarge my step under me, So that my feet shall not slip.

38. “I pursue my enemies and destroy them, And I do not turn back till they are destroyed.

39. “And I destroy them and crush them, So that they do not rise, And fall under my feet.

40. “And You gird me with strength for battle, You cause my adversaries to bow under me.

41. “And You make my enemies turn their backs, Those hating me, and I cut them off.

42. “They look but there is no saviour, Unto יהוה, but He shall not answer them.

43. “And I beat them as dust of the earth, I beat them small as dirt in the streets – I spread them out.

44. “And You deliver me from the strivings of my people, You safeguard me as the head of the nations; A people I have not known serve me.

45. “Sons of the foreigner submit to me, As soon as they hear they obey me.

46. “Sons of the foreigner fade away, And gird themselves from their strongholds.

47. “יהוה lives! And blessed is my Rock! And exalted is my Elohim, The Rock of my deliverance,

48. “Ěl who avenges me, And bringing peoples down under me,

49. “And bringing me out from my enemies; You raise me up above those rising up against me; You deliver me from a man of violence.

50. “Therefore I give thanks to You, O יהוה, among nations, And I sing praise to Your Name.

51. “A tower of deliverance is He to His sovereign, And showing kindness to His anointed, To Dawiḏ and his seed, forever.”

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