Then Joab came into the house to the king and said, “Today you have shamed all your servants, who have saved your life today and the lives of your sons and daughters, the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines,

And all the people were quarreling throughout the tribes of Israel, saying, “The king rescued us from the hands of our enemies and saved us from the hands of the Philistines, but now he has fled out of the land from Absalom.

David’s Psalm of Deliverance

Now David spoke the words of this song to the Lord on the day that the Lord had saved him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.

I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised, And I am saved from my enemies.

You have also saved me from the contentions of my people; You have kept me as head of the nations; A people I have not known serve me.

Yet the Lord did not say that He would wipe out the name of Israel from under heaven, but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.

Has any of the gods of the nations actually saved his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?

Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they saved Samaria from my hand?

Who among all the gods of the lands are there who have saved their land from my hand, that the Lord would save Jerusalem from my hand?’”

Behold, you yourself have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, destroying them completely. So will you be saved?

But they took their stand in the midst of the plot and defended it, and defeated the Philistines; and the Lord saved them with a great victory.

So the anger of the Lord burned against Amaziah, and He sent him a prophet who said to him, “Why have you sought the gods of the people who have not saved their own people from your hand?”

He also wrote letters to insult the Lord God of Israel, and to speak against Him, saying, “As the gods of the nations of the lands have not saved their people from my hand, so the God of Hezekiah will not save His people from my hand.”

So the Lord saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria and from the hand of all others, and guided them on every side.

Therefore You handed them over to their enemies who oppressed them, But when they cried out to You in the time of their distress, You heard from heaven, and according to Your great compassion You gave them people who saved them from the hand of their enemies.

“What a help you are to the weak! You have saved the arm without strength!

Because I saved the poor who cried for help, And the orphan who had no helper.

I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised, And I am saved from my enemies.

He saved me from my strong enemy, And from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me.

The king is not saved by a mighty army; A warrior is not rescued by great strength.

This wretched man cried out, and the Lord heard him, And saved him out of all his troubles.

But You have saved us from our adversaries, And You have put to shame those who hate us.

For He has saved me from all trouble, And my eye has looked with satisfaction upon my enemies.

For You have saved my soul from death, Indeed my feet from stumbling, So that I may walk before God In the light of the living.

God, restore us And make Your face shine upon us, and we will be saved.