2 Samuel 22

English Standard Version

David's Song of Deliverance

22 And David spoke ^(A)to the Lord the words of this song on the day when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. ²^(B)He said,

^(C)“The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer,
³    ^(D)my^[a] God, my rock, ^(E)in whom I take refuge,
^(F)my shield, and ^(G)the horn of my salvation,
    ^(H)my stronghold and ^(I)my refuge,
    my savior; you save me from violence.
⁴I call upon the Lord, who is ^(J)worthy to be praised,
    and I am saved from my enemies.

⁵^(K)“For the waves of death encompassed me,
the torrents of destruction assailed me;^[b]
⁶^(L)the cords of Sheol entangled me;
the snares of death confronted me.

⁷^(M)“In my distress I called upon the Lord;
to my God I called.
From his temple he heard my voice,
and my cry ^(N)came to his ears.

⁸“Then ^(O)the earth reeled and rocked;
    ^(P)the foundations of the heavens trembled
    and quaked, because he was angry.
⁹Smoke went up from his nostrils,^[c]
    and devouring fire from his mouth;
    ^(Q)glowing coals flamed forth from him.
¹⁰^(R)He bowed the heavens and ^(S)came down;
    ^(T)thick darkness was under his feet.
¹¹He rode on a cherub and flew;
    he was seen on ^(U)the wings of the wind.
¹²He made ^(V)darkness around him ^(W)his canopy,
    thick clouds, a gathering of water.
¹³Out of the brightness before him
    ^(X)coals of fire flamed forth.
¹⁴^(Y)The Lord thundered from heaven,
    and the Most High uttered his voice.
¹⁵And he sent out ^(Z)arrows and scattered them;
    lightning, and routed them.
¹⁶Then the channels of the sea were seen;
    the foundations of the world were laid bare,
at the rebuke of the Lord,
    at the ^(AA)blast of the breath of his nostrils.

¹⁷^(AB)“He sent from on high, he took me;
    he drew me out of many waters.
¹⁸He rescued me from my strong enemy,
    from those who hated me,
    for they were too mighty for me.
¹⁹They confronted me in the day of my calamity,
    but the Lord was my support.
²⁰^(AC)He brought me out into a broad place;
    he rescued me, because ^(AD)he delighted in me.

²¹“The Lord ^(AE)dealt with me according to my righteousness;
    according to the ^(AF)cleanness of my hands he rewarded me.
²²^(AG)For I have kept the ways of the Lord
    and have not wickedly departed from my God.
²³^(AH)For all his rules were before me,
    and from his statutes I did not turn aside.
²⁴I was ^(AI)blameless before him,
    and I kept myself from guilt.
²⁵^(AJ)And the Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness,
    according to my cleanness in his sight.

²⁶^(AK)“With the merciful you show yourself merciful;
    with the ^(AL)blameless man you show yourself blameless;
²⁷with the purified you deal purely,
    and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.
²⁸^(AM)You save a humble people,
    ^(AN)but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.
²⁹^(AO)For you are my lamp, O Lord,
    and my God lightens my darkness.
³⁰For by you I can run against a troop,
    and by my God I can leap over a wall.
³¹This God—^(AP)his way is perfect;
    the ^(AQ)word of the Lord proves true;
    he is ^(AR)a shield for all those who take refuge in him.

³²“For who is God, but the Lord?
    ^(AS)And who is a rock, except our God?
³³This God is my ^(AT)strong refuge
    and has made my^[d] way blameless.^[e]
³⁴^(AU)He made my feet like the feet of a deer
    and set me secure ^(AV)on the heights.
³⁵^(AW)He trains my hands for war,
    so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
³⁶You have given me the shield of your salvation,
    and your gentleness made me great.
³⁷^(AX)You gave a wide place for my steps under me,
    and my feet^[f] did not slip;
³⁸I pursued my enemies and destroyed them,
    and did not turn back until they were consumed.
³⁹I consumed them; I thrust them through, so that they did not rise;
    they fell ^(AY)under my feet.
⁴⁰For you equipped me with strength for the battle;
    you made ^(AZ)those who rise against me sink under me.
⁴¹You ^(BA)made my enemies turn their backs to me,^[g]
    those who hated me, and I destroyed them.
⁴²They looked, but there was none to save;
    they cried to the Lord, but ^(BB)he did not answer them.
⁴³I beat them fine ^(BC)as the dust of the earth;
    I crushed them and stamped them down ^(BD)like the mire of the streets.

⁴⁴“You delivered me from strife with my people;^[h]
    you kept me as the head of ^(BE)the nations;
    ^(BF)people whom I had not known served me.
⁴⁵Foreigners came cringing to me;
    as soon as they heard of me, they obeyed me.
⁴⁶Foreigners lost heart
    and came trembling^[i] ^(BG)out of their fortresses.

⁴⁷“The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock,
    and exalted be ^(BH)my God, ^(BI)the rock of my salvation,
⁴⁸the God who gave me vengeance
    and ^(BJ)brought down peoples under me,
⁴⁹who brought me out from my enemies;
    you exalted me above ^(BK)those who rose against me;
    you delivered me from ^(BL)men of violence.

⁵⁰^(BM)“For this I will praise you, O Lord, among the nations,
    and sing praises to your name.
⁵¹^(BN)Great salvation he brings^[j] to his king,
    and shows steadfast love to ^(BO)his anointed,
    to David and his offspring ^(BP)forever.”

Footnotes

2 Samuel 22:3 Septuagint (compare Psalm 18:2); Hebrew lacks my
2 Samuel 22:5 Or terrified me
2 Samuel 22:9 Or in his wrath
2 Samuel 22:33 Or his; also verse 34
2 Samuel 22:33 Compare Psalm 18:32; Hebrew he has blamelessly set my way free, or he has made my way spring up blamelessly
2 Samuel 22:37 Hebrew ankles
2 Samuel 22:41 Or You gave me my enemies' necks
2 Samuel 22:44 Septuagint with the peoples
2 Samuel 22:46 Compare Psalm 18:45; Hebrew equipped themselves
2 Samuel 22:51 Or He is a tower of salvation

Psalm 57

English Standard Version

Let Your Glory Be over All the Earth

To the choirmaster: according to ^(A)Do Not Destroy. A ^(B)Miktam^[a] of David, when he fled from Saul, in ^(C)the cave.

57 ^(D)Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me,
    for in you my soul ^(E)takes refuge;
in ^(F)the shadow of your wings I will take refuge,
    ^(G)till the storms of destruction pass by.
²I cry out to God Most High,
    to God who ^(H)fulfills his purpose for me.
³^(I)He will send from heaven and save me;
    he will put to shame ^(J)him who tramples on me. Selah
^(K)God will send out ^(L)his steadfast love and his faithfulness!

⁴My soul is in the midst of ^(M)lions;
I lie down amid fiery beasts—
the children of man, whose ^(N)teeth are spears and arrows,
whose ^(O)tongues are sharp swords.

⁵^(P)Be exalted, O God, above the heavens!
Let your glory be over all the earth!

⁶They set ^(Q)a net for my steps;
    my soul was ^(R)bowed down.
They ^(S)dug a pit in my way,
    but they have fallen into it themselves. Selah
⁷^(T)My heart is ^(U)steadfast, O God,
    my heart is steadfast!
I will sing and make melody!
⁸    ^(V)Awake, ^(W)my glory!^[b]
Awake, ^(X)O harp and lyre!
    I will awake the dawn!
⁹I will give thanks to you, O Lord, among the peoples;
    I will sing praises to you among the nations.
¹⁰For your ^(Y)steadfast love is great to the heavens,
    your faithfulness to the clouds.

¹¹^(Z)Be exalted, O God, above the heavens!
Let your glory be over all the earth!

Footnotes

Psalm 57:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
Psalm 57:8 Or my whole being

1 Corinthians 3

English Standard Version

Divisions in the Church

3 But I, brothers,^[a] could not address you as ^(A)spiritual people, but as ^(B)people of the flesh, as ^(C)infants in Christ. ²^(D)I fed you with milk, not solid food, for ^(E)you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, ³for you are still of the flesh. For while there is ^(F)jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way? ⁴For ^(G)when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” ^(H)are you not being merely human?

⁵What then is Apollos? What is Paul? ^(I)Servants through whom you believed, ^(J)as the Lord assigned to each. ⁶^(K)I planted, ^(L)Apollos watered, ^(M)but God gave the growth. ⁷So ^(N)neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. ⁸He who plants and he who waters are one, and each ^(O)will receive his wages according to his labor. ⁹For we are ^(P)God's fellow workers. You are God's field, ^(Q)God's building.

¹⁰^(R)According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled^[b] master builder I laid a ^(S)foundation, and ^(T)someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. ¹¹For no one can lay a ^(U)foundation other ^(V)than that which is laid, ^(W)which is Jesus Christ. ¹²Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— ¹³^(X)each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed ^(Y)by fire, and ^(Z)the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. ¹⁴If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, ^(AA)he will receive a reward. ¹⁵If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, ^(AB)but only as through fire.

¹⁶^(AC)Do you not know that you^[c] are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? ¹⁷If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For ^(AD)God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.

¹⁸^(AE)Let no one deceive himself. ^(AF)If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. ¹⁹For ^(AG)the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, ^(AH)“He catches the wise in their craftiness,” ²⁰and again, ^(AI)“The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.” ²¹So ^(AJ)let no one boast in men. For ^(AK)all things are yours, ²²whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours, ²³and ^(AL)you are Christ's, and ^(AM)Christ is God's.