6 The bands of Sheol surrounded me; The cords of death encountered me;
The bands of death encompassed me, and the anguish of Sheol took hold of me; I found trouble and sorrow:
And if, bound in fetters, they be held in cords of affliction,
The proud have hidden a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the way-side; they have set traps for me. Selah.
His own iniquities shall take the wicked, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
The fear of Jehovah is a fountain of life, to turn away from the snares of death.
and he said: I cried by reason of my distress unto Jehovah, and he answered me; Out of the belly of Sheol cried I: thou heardest my voice.
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Commentary on 2 Samuel 22 Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
CHAPTER 22
2Sa 22:1-51. David's Psalm of Thanksgiving for God's Powerful Deliverance and Manifold Blessings.
The song contained in this chapter is the same as the eighteenth Psalm, where the full commentary will be given [see on Ps 18:1, &c.]. It may be sufficient simply to remark that Jewish writers have noticed a great number of very minute variations in the language of the song as recorded here, from that embodied in the Book of Psalms—which may be accounted for by the fact that this, the first copy of the poem, was carefully revised and altered by David afterwards, when it was set to the music of the tabernacle. This inspired ode was manifestly the effusion of a mind glowing with the highest fervor of piety and gratitude, and it is full of the noblest imagery that is to be found within the range even of sacred poetry. It is David's grand tribute of thanksgiving for deliverance from his numerous and powerful enemies, and establishing him in the power and glory of the kingdom.