2 Samuel 22:2

THE MESSAGE

God is bedrock under my feet, the castle in which I live, my rescuing knight. My God—the high crag where I run for dear life, hiding behind the boulders, safe in the granite hideout; My mountaintop refuge, he saves me from ruthless men.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He said:

Hebrew Names Version
and he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, even mine;

King James Version
And he said, The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;

Lexham English Bible
And he said: "Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer.

English Standard Version
He said, "The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer,

New Century Version
He said: "The Lord is my rock, my fortress, my Savior.

New English Translation
He said: "The Lord is my high ridge, my stronghold, my deliverer.

Amplified Bible
He said: "The LORD is my rock and my fortress [on the mountain] and my rescuer;

New American Standard Bible
He said, "The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer;

Geneva Bible (1587)
And he sayd, The Lord is my rocke and my fortresse, and he that deliuereth mee.

Legacy Standard Bible
He said,"Yahweh is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer;

Contemporary English Version
Our Lord and our God, you are my mighty rock, my fortress, my protector.

Complete Jewish Bible
He said: " Adonai is my Rock, my fortress and deliverer,

Darby Translation
And he said, Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord is my Rock, my fortress, my place of safety.

George Lamsa Translation
And he said: I will love thee, O LORD my strength and my trust; the LORD is my strength and my fortress and my deliverer,

Good News Translation
The Lord is my protector; he is my strong fortress.

Literal Translation
And he said: Jehovah is my rock and my fortress, and my Deliverer.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and he sayde. The LORDE is my stony rock, & my castell, and my delyuerer.

American Standard Version
and he said, Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, even mine;

Bible in Basic English
And he said, The Lord is my Rock, my walled town, and my saviour, even mine;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he saide: The Lorde is my rocke, and my castell, and my delyuerer.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
and he said: The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;

King James Version (1611)
And he said, The Lord is my rocke and my fortresse, and my deliuerer:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the song was thus: O Lord, my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer,

English Revised Version
and he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, even mine;

Berean Standard Bible
He said: "The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Dauid seide, The Lord is my stoon, and my strengthe, and my sauyour;

Young's Literal Translation
and he saith: `Jehovah [is] my rock, And my bulwark, and a deliverer to me,

Update Bible Version
and he said, Yahweh is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, even mine;

Webster's Bible Translation
And he said, The LORD [is] my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;

World English Bible
and he said, Yahweh is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, even mine;

New King James Version
And he said: Psalms 18">[fn] "The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer;

New Living Translation
He sang: "The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my savior;

New Life Bible
He said, "The Lord is my rock, my strong place, and the One Who sets me free.

New Revised Standard
He said: The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and he said, - Yahweh, was my mountain crag and my stronghold, and my deliverer - mine;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said: The Lord is my rock, and my strength, and my saviour.

Revised Standard Version
He said, "The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
He said, "The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer;

Contextual Overview

² God is bedrock under my feet, the castle in which I live, my rescuing knight. My God—the high crag where I run for dear life, hiding behind the boulders, safe in the granite hideout; My mountaintop refuge, he saves me from ruthless men. ⁴ I sing to God the Praise-Lofty, and find myself safe and saved. ⁵The waves of death crashed over me, devil waters rushed over me. Hell's ropes cinched me tight; death traps barred every exit. ⁷ A hostile world! I called to God , to my God I cried out. From his palace he heard me call; my cry brought me right into his presence— a private audience! ⁸Earth wobbled and lurched; the very heavens shook like leaves, Quaked like aspen leaves because of his rage. His nostrils flared, billowing smoke; his mouth spit fire. Tongues of fire darted in and out; he lowered the sky. He stepped down; under his feet an abyss opened up. He rode a winged creature, swift on wind-wings. He wrapped himself in a trenchcoat of black rain-cloud darkness. But his cloud-brightness burst through, a grand comet of fireworks. Then God thundered out of heaven; the High God gave a great shout. God shot his arrows—pandemonium! He hurled his lightnings—a rout! The secret sources of ocean were exposed, the hidden depths of earth lay uncovered The moment God roared in protest, let loose his hurricane anger. ¹⁷But me he caught—reached all the way from sky to sea; he pulled me out Of that ocean of hate, that enemy chaos, the void in which I was drowning. They hit me when I was down, but God stuck by me. He stood me up on a wide-open field; I stood there saved—surprised to be loved! ²¹ God made my life complete when I placed all the pieces before him. When I cleaned up my act, he gave me a fresh start. Indeed, I've kept alert to God 's ways; I haven't taken God for granted. Every day I review the ways he works, I try not to miss a trick. I feel put back together, and I'm watching my step. God rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes. ²⁶You stick by people who stick with you, you're straight with people who're straight with you, You're good to good people, you shrewdly work around the bad ones. You take the side of the down-and-out, but the stuck-up you take down a peg. ²⁹Suddenly, God , your light floods my path, God drives out the darkness. I smash the bands of marauders, I vault the high fences. What a God! His road stretches straight and smooth. Every God -direction is road-tested. Everyone who runs toward him Makes it. ³²Is there any god like God ? Are we not at bedrock? Is not this the God who armed me well, then aimed me in the right direction? Now I run like a deer; I'm king of the mountain. He shows me how to fight; I can bend a bronze bow! You protect me with salvation-armor; you touch me and I feel ten feet tall. You cleared the ground under me so my footing was firm. When I chased my enemies I caught them; I didn't let go till they were dead men. I nailed them; they were down for good; then I walked all over them. You armed me well for this fight; you smashed the upstarts. You made my enemies turn tail, and I wiped out the haters. They cried "uncle" but Uncle didn't come; They yelled for God and got no for an answer. I ground them to dust; they gusted in the wind. I threw them out, like garbage in the gutter. You rescued me from a squabbling people; you made me a leader of nations. People I'd never heard of served me; the moment they got wind of me they submitted. They gave up; they came trembling from their hideouts.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 32:4, 1 Samuel 2:2, Psalms 18:2-50, Psalms 31:3, Psalms 42:9, Psalms 71:3, Psalms 91:2, Psalms 144:2, Matthew 16:18

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 22:32 - a rock 2 Samuel 22:51 - the tower 2 Samuel 23:3 - the Rock Luke 6:48 - rock

Cross-References

Genesis 17:19
But God said, "That's not what I mean. Your wife, Sarah, will have a baby, a son. Name him Isaac (Laughter). I'll establish my covenant with him and his descendants, a covenant that lasts forever.

Genesis 22:9
They arrived at the place to which God had directed him. Abraham built an altar. He laid out the wood. Then he tied up Isaac and laid him on the wood. Abraham reached out and took the knife to kill his son.

Genesis 22:12
"Don't lay a hand on that boy! Don't touch him! Now I know how fearlessly you fear God; you didn't hesitate to place your son, your dear son, on the altar for me."

2 Chronicles 3:1
So Solomon broke ground, launched construction of the house of God in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, the place where God had appeared to his father David. The precise site, the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, had been designated by David. He broke ground on the second day in the second month of the fourth year of his rule. These are the dimensions that Solomon set for the construction of the house of God: ninety feet long and thirty feet wide. The porch in front stretched the width of the building, that is, thirty feet; and it was thirty feet high. The interior was gold-plated. He paneled the main hall with cypress and veneered it with fine gold engraved with palm tree and chain designs. He decorated the building with precious stones and gold from Parvaim. Everything was coated with gold veneer: rafters, doorframes, walls, and doors. Cherubim were engraved on the walls. He made the Holy of Holies a cube, thirty feet wide, long, and high. It was veneered with six hundred talents (something over twenty-two tons) of gold. The gold nails weighed fifty shekels (a little over a pound). The upper rooms were also veneered in gold. He made two sculptures of cherubim, gigantic angel-like figures, for the Holy of Holies, both veneered with gold. The combined wingspread of the side-by-side cherubim (each wing measuring seven and a half feet) stretched from wall to wall, thirty feet. They stood erect facing the main hall. He fashioned the curtain of violet, purple, and crimson fabric and worked a cherub design into it. He made two huge free-standing pillars, each fifty-two feet tall, their capitals extending another seven and a half feet. The top of each pillar was set off with an elaborate filigree of chains, like necklaces, from which hung a hundred pomegranates. He placed the pillars in front of The Temple, one on the right, and the other on the left. The right pillar he named Jakin (Security) and the left pillar he named Boaz (Stability).

John 3:16
"This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn't go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person's failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him.

Hebrews 11:17
By faith, Abraham, at the time of testing, offered Isaac back to God. Acting in faith, he was as ready to return the promised son, his only son, as he had been to receive him—and this after he had already been told, "Your descendants shall come from Isaac." Abraham figured that if God wanted to, he could raise the dead. In a sense, that's what happened when he received Isaac back, alive from off the altar.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he said, The Lord [is] my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer. :-.