2 Samuel 22:33

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
God is my strong refuge;he makes my way perfect.

Hebrew Names Version
God is my strong fortress; He guides the perfect in his way.

King James Version
God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect.

Lexham English Bible
God is my strong refuge, he has fully opened my way.

English Standard Version
This God is my strong refuge and has made my way blameless.

New Century Version
God is my protection. He makes my way free from fault.

New English Translation
The one true God is my mighty refuge; he removes the obstacles in my way.

Amplified Bible
"God is my strong fortress; He sets the blameless in His way.

New American Standard Bible
"God is my strong fortress; And He sets the blameless on His way.

Geneva Bible (1587)
God is my strength in battel, and maketh my way vpright.

Legacy Standard Bible
God is my strong fortress;And He sets the blameless in His way.

Contemporary English Version
You are my strong fortress, and you set me free.

Complete Jewish Bible
"God is my strength and protection; he makes my way go straight.

Darby Translation
God is my strong fortress, And he maketh my way perfectly smooth.

Easy-to-Read Version
God is my strong fortress. He clears the path I need to take.

George Lamsa Translation
The God who has girded me with strength makes my way perfect.

Good News Translation
This God is my strong refuge; he makes my pathway safe.

Literal Translation
God is my strong fortress; and He sets the blameless free in his way,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
God hath stregthed me with power, and made playne a perfecte waye for me.

American Standard Version
God is my strong fortress; And he guideth the perfect in his way.

Bible in Basic English
God puts a strong band about me, guiding me in a straight way.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
God strengthneth me in battaile: & ryddeth the way cleare before me.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The God who is my strong fortress, and who letteth my way go forth straight;

King James Version (1611)
God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
It is the Mighty One who strengthens me with might, and has prepared my way without fault.

English Revised Version
God is my strong fortress: and he guideth the perfect in his way.

Berean Standard Bible
God is my strong fortress and He makes my way blameless.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
God, that hath gird me with strengthe, and hath maad pleyn my perfit weie;

Young's Literal Translation
God -- my bulwark, [my] strength, And He maketh perfect my way;

Update Bible Version
God is my strong fortress; And he opened up perfectly my way.

Webster's Bible Translation
God [is] my strength [and] power: and he maketh my way perfect.

World English Bible
God is my strong fortress; He guides the perfect in his way.

New King James Version
God is my strength and power, Psalms 18:32); Targum reads It is God who sustains me with strength. ">[fn] And He makes my Psalms 18:32); Kethib reads His.">[fn] way perfect.

New Living Translation
God is my strong fortress, and he makes my way perfect.

New Life Bible
God is my strong place. He has made my way safe.

New Revised Standard
The God who has girded me with strength has opened wide my path.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
GOD, is my fortress of strength, - and shewed to the blameless his way;

Douay-Rheims Bible
God who hath girded me with strength, and made my way perfect.

Revised Standard Version
This God is my strong refuge, and has made my way safe.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"God is my strong fortress; And He sets the blameless in His way.

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

strength: Exodus 15:2, Psalms 18:32, Psalms 27:1, Psalms 28:7, Psalms 28:8, Psalms 31:4, Psalms 46:1, Isaiah 41:10, Zechariah 10:12, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Ephesians 6:10, Philippians 4:13

maketh: Heb. riddeth, or looseth

my way: Hebrews 13:21

perfect: Deuteronomy 18:13, Job 22:3, Psalms 101:2, Psalms 101:6, Psalms 119:1

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 17:45 - in the name

Gill's Notes on the Bible

God [is] my strength [and] power: and he maketh my way perfect. :-.