2S 22-23 (King James)

   ¹ And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:
   ² And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; ³ The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence. ⁴ I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies. ⁵ When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid; ⁶ The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me; ⁷ In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears. ⁸ Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth. ⁹ There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. ¹⁰ He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet. ¹¹ And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind. ¹² And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies. ¹³ Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled. ¹⁴ The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice. ¹⁵ And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them. ¹⁶ And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils. ¹⁷ He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters; ¹⁸ He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me. ¹⁹ They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay. ²⁰ He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me. ²¹ The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. ²² For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God. ²³ For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes, I did not depart from them. ²⁴ I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity. ²⁵ Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight. ²⁶ With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright. ²⁷ With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury. ²⁸ And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down. ²⁹ For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness. ³⁰ For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall. ³¹ As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him. ³² For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God? ³³ God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect. ³⁴ He maketh my feet like hinds' feet: and setteth me upon my high places. ³⁵ He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms. ³⁶ Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great. ³⁷ Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip. ³⁸ I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them. ³⁹ And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet. ⁴⁰ For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me. ⁴¹ Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me. ⁴² They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD, but he answered them not. ⁴³ Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad. ⁴⁴ Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me. ⁴⁵ Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me. ⁴⁶ Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places. ⁴⁷ The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation. ⁴⁸ It is God that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people under me. ⁴⁹ And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man. ⁵⁰ Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name. ⁵¹ He is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.

2 Samuel 23

   ¹ Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said, ² The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue. ³ The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. ⁴ And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain. ⁵ Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow. ⁶ But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands: ⁷ But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the same place.
   ⁸ These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time. ⁹ And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away: ¹⁰ He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword: and the LORD wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil. ¹¹ And after him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a piece of ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from the Philistines. ¹² But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and slew the Philistines: and the LORD wrought a great victory. ¹³ And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim. ¹⁴ And David was then in an hold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem. ¹⁵ And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate! ¹⁶ And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD. ¹⁷ And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this: is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men. ¹⁸ And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, and slew them, and had the name among three. ¹⁹ Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the first three. ²⁰ And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow: ²¹ And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear. ²² These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among three mighty men. ²³ He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard. ²⁴ Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem, ²⁵ Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite, ²⁶ Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, ²⁷ Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite, ²⁸ Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite, ²⁹ Heleb the son of Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai out of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, ³⁰ Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash, ³¹ Abialbon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite, ³² Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen, Jonathan, ³³ Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite, ³⁴ Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maachathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite, ³⁵ Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite, ³⁶ Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite, ³⁷ Zelek the Ammonite, Nahari the Beerothite, armourbearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah, ³⁸ Ira an Ithrite, Gareb an Ithrite, ³⁹ Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all.

2S 22-23 (Vulgate)

   ¹ Locutus est autem David Domino verba carminis hujus in die qua liberavit eum Dominus de manu omnium inimicorum suorum, et de manu Saul.
   ² Et ait : [Dominus petra mea, et robur meum, et salvator meus.
   ³ Deus fortis meus : sperabo in eum ;
scutum meum, et cornu salutis meæ :
elevator meus, et refugium meum ;
salvator meus : de iniquitate liberabis me.
   ⁴ Laudabilem invocabo Dominum,
et ab inimicis meis salvus ero.
   ⁵ Quia circumdederunt me contritiones mortis :
torrentes Belial terruerunt me.
   ⁶ Funes inferni circumdederunt me :
prævenerunt me laquei mortis.
   ⁷ In tribulatione mea invocabo Dominum,
et ad Deum meum clamabo :
et exaudiet de templo suo vocem meam,
et clamor meus veniet ad aures ejus.
   ⁸ Commota est et contremuit terra ;
fundamenta montium concussa sunt, et conquassata :
quoniam iratus est eis.
   ⁹ Ascendit fumus de naribus ejus,
et ignis de ore ejus vorabit :
carbones succensi sunt ab eo.
   ¹⁰ Inclinavit cælos, et descendit :
et caligo sub pedibus ejus.
   ¹¹ Et ascendit super cherubim, et volavit :
et lapsus est super pennas venti.
   ¹² Posuit tenebras in circuitu suo latibulum,
cribrans aquas de nubibus cælorum.
   ¹³ Præ fulgore in conspectu ejus,
succensi sunt carbones ignis.
   ¹⁴ Tonabit de cælo Dominus,
et excelsus dabit vocem suam.
   ¹⁵ Misit sagittas et dissipavit eos ;
fulgur, et consumpsit eos.
   ¹⁶ Et apparuerunt effusiones maris,
et revelata sunt fundamenta orbis
ab increpatione Domini,
ab inspiratione spiritus furoris ejus.
   ¹⁷ Misit de excelso, et assumpsit me,
et extraxit me de aquis multis.
   ¹⁸ Liberavit me ab inimico meo potentissimo,
et ab his qui oderant me :
quoniam robustiores me erant.
   ¹⁹ Prævenit me in die afflictionis meæ,
et factus est Dominus firmamentum meum.
   ²⁰ Et eduxit me in latitudinem :
liberavit me, quia complacui ei.
   ²¹ Retribuet mihi Dominus secundum justitiam meam :
et secundum munditiam manuum mearum reddet mihi.
   ²² Quia custodivi vias Domini,
et non egi impie a Deo meo.
   ²³ Omnia enim judicia ejus in conspectu meo,
et præcepta ejus non amovi a me.
   ²⁴ Et ero perfectus cum eo,
et custodiam me ab iniquitate mea.
   ²⁵ Et restituet mihi Dominus secundum justitiam meam,
et secundum munditiam manuum mearum in conspectu oculorum suorum.
   ²⁶ Cum sancto sanctus eris,
et cum robusto perfectus.
   ²⁷ Cum electo electus eris,
et cum perverso perverteris.
   ²⁸ Et populum pauperem salvum facies :
oculisque tuis excelsos humiliabis.
   ²⁹ Quia tu lucerna mea, Domine,
et tu, Domine, illuminabis tenebras meas.
   ³⁰ In te enim curram accinctus :
in Deo meo transiliam murum.
   ³¹ Deus, immaculata via ejus ;
eloquium Domini igne examinatum :
scutum est omnium sperantium in se.
   ³² Quis est Deus præter Dominum,
et quis fortis præter Deum nostrum ?
   ³³ Deus qui accinxit me fortitudine,
et complanavit perfectam viam meam.
   ³⁴ Coæquans pedes meos cervis,
et super excelsa mea statuens me ;
   ³⁵ docens manus meas ad prælium,
et componens quasi arcum æreum brachia mea.
   ³⁶ Dedisti mihi clypeum salutis tuæ,
et mansuetudo tua multiplicavit me.
   ³⁷ Dilatabis gressus meos subtus me,
et non deficient tali mei.
   ³⁸ Persequar inimicos meos, et conteram,
et non convertar donec consumam eos.
   ³⁹ Consumam eos et confringam, ut non consurgant :
cadent sub pedibus meis.
   ⁴⁰ Accinxisti me fortitudine ad prælium :
incurvasti resistentes mihi subtus me.
   ⁴¹ Inimicos meos dedisti mihi dorsum ;
odientes me, et disperdam eos.
   ⁴² Clamabunt, et non erit qui salvet ;
ad Dominum, et non exaudiet eos.
   ⁴³ Delebo eos ut pulverem terræ ;
quasi lutum platearum comminuam eos atque confringam.
   ⁴⁴ Salvabis me a contradictionibus populi mei ;
custodies me in caput gentium :
populus quem ignoro serviet mihi.
   ⁴⁵ Filii alieni resistent mihi ;
auditu auris obedient mihi.
   ⁴⁶ Filii alieni defluxerunt,
et contrahentur in angustiis suis.
   ⁴⁷ Vivit Dominus, et benedictus Deus meus,
et exaltabitur Deus fortis salutis meæ.
   ⁴⁸ Deus qui das vindictas mihi,
et dejicis populos sub me.
   ⁴⁹ Qui educis me ab inimicis meis,
et a resistentibus mihi elevas me :
a viro iniquo liberabis me.
   ⁵⁰ Propterea confitebor tibi, Domine, in gentibus,
et nomini tuo cantabo :
   ⁵¹ magnificans salutes regis sui,
et faciens misericordiam christo suo David,
et semini ejus in sempiternum.]

2 Samuel 23

   ¹ Hæc autem sunt verba David novissima. Dixit David filius Isai : [Dixit vir, cui constitutum est de christo Dei Jacob,
egregius psaltes Israël :
   ² Spiritus Domini locutus est per me,
et sermo ejus per linguam meam.
   ³ Dixit Deus Israël mihi,
locutus est fortis Israël :
Dominator hominum,
justus dominator in timore Dei,
   ⁴ sicut lux auroræ, oriente sole,
mane absque nubibus rutilat :
et sicut pluviis germinat herba de terra.
   ⁵ Nec tanta est domus mea apud Deum,
ut pactum æternum iniret mecum,
firmum in omnibus atque munitum.
Cuncta enim salus mea, et omnis voluntas,
nec est quidquam ex ea quod non germinet.
   ⁶ Prævaricatores autem quasi spinæ evellentur universi,
quæ non tolluntur manibus.
   ⁷ Et si quis tangere voluerit eas,
armabitur ferro et ligno lanceato,
igneque succensæ comburentur usque ad nihilum.]
   ⁸ Hæc nomina fortium David. Sedens in cathedra sapientissimus princeps inter tres, ipse est quasi tenerrimus ligni vermiculus, qui octingentos interfecit impetu uno.
   ⁹ Post hunc, Eleazar filius patrui ejus Ahohites inter tres fortes, qui erant cum David quando exprobraverunt Philisthiim, et congregati sunt illuc in prælium.
   ¹⁰ Cumque ascendissent viri Israël, ipse stetit et percussit Philisthæos donec deficeret manus ejus, et obrigesceret cum gladio : fecitque Dominus salutem magnam in die illa : et populus qui fugerat, reversus est ad cæsorum spolia detrahenda.
   ¹¹ Et post hunc, Semma filius Age de Arari. Et congregati sunt Philisthiim in statione : erat quippe ibi ager lente plenus. Cumque fugisset populus a facie Philisthiim,
   ¹² stetit ille in medio agri, et tuitus est eum, percussitque Philisthæos : et fecit Dominus salutem magnam.
   ¹³ Necnon et ante descenderant tres qui erant principes inter triginta, et venerant tempore messis ad David in speluncam Odollam : castra autem Philisthinorum erant posita in Valle gigantum.
   ¹⁴ Et David erat in præsidio : porro statio Philisthinorum tunc erat in Bethlehem.
   ¹⁵ Desideravit ergo David, et ait : O si quis mihi daret potum aquæ de cisterna quæ est in Bethlehem juxta portam !
   ¹⁶ Irruperunt ergo tres fortes castra Philisthinorum, et hauserunt aquam de cisterna Bethlehem, quæ erat juxta portam, et attulerunt ad David : at ille noluit bibere, sed libavit eam Domino,
   ¹⁷ dicens : Propitius sit mihi Dominus, ne faciam hoc : num sanguinem hominum istorum qui profecti sunt, et animarum periculum bibam ? Noluit ergo bibere. Hæc fecerunt tres robustissimi.
   ¹⁸ Abisai quoque frater Joab filius Sarviæ, princeps erat de tribus : ipse est qui levavit hastam suam contra trecentos, quos interfecit : nominatus in tribus,
   ¹⁹ et inter tres nobilior, eratque eorum princeps, sed usque ad tres primos non pervenerat.
   ²⁰ Et Banaias filius Jojadæ viri fortissimi, magnorum operum, de Cabseel. Ipse percussit duos leones Moab, et ipse descendit, et percussit leonem in media cisterna in diebus nivis.
   ²¹ Ipse quoque interfecit virum ægyptium, virum dignum spectaculo, habentem in manu hastam : itaque cum descendisset ad eum in virga, vi extorsit hastam de manu Ægyptii, et interfecit eum hasta sua.
   ²² Hæc fecit Banaias filius Jojadæ.
   ²³ Et ipse nominatus inter tres robustos, qui erant inter triginta nobiliores : verumtamen usque ad tres non pervenerat : fecitque eum sibi David auricularium, a secreto.
   ²⁴ Asaël frater Joab inter triginta, Elehanan filius patrui ejus de Bethlehem,
   ²⁵ Semma de Harodi, Elica de Harodi,
   ²⁶ Heles de Phalti, Hira filius Acces de Thecua,
   ²⁷ Abiezer de Anathoth, Mobonnai de Husati,
   ²⁸ Selmon Ahohites, Maharai Netophathites,
   ²⁹ Heled filius Baana, et ipse Netophathites, Ithai filius Ribai de Gabaath filiorum Benjamin,
   ³⁰ Banaia Pharathonites, Heddai de torrente Gaas,
   ³¹ Abialbon Arbathites, Azmaveth de Beromi,
   ³² Eliaba de Salaboni. Filii Jassen, Jonathan,
   ³³ Semma de Orori, Ajam filius Sarar Arorites,
   ³⁴ Eliphelet filius Aasbai filii Machati, Eliam filius Achitophel Gelonites,
   ³⁵ Hesrai de Carmelo, Pharai de Arbi,
   ³⁶ Igaal filius Nathan de Soba, Bonni de Gadi,
   ³⁷ Selec de Ammoni, Naharai Berothites armiger Joab filii Sarviæ,
   ³⁸ Ira Jethrites, Gareb et ipse Jethrites,
   ³⁹ Urias Hethæus : omnes triginta septem.