2 Samuel 22:31
God, his way is immaculate, the word of the Lord is tried by fire: he is the shield of all that trust in him.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
30For in thee I will run girded: in my God I will leap over the wall.
32Who is God but the Lord: and who is strong but our God?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:4The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments: God is faithful and without any iniquity, he is just and right.
Nehemiah 9:8And thou didst find his heart faithful before thee: and thou madest a covenant with him, to give him the land of the Chanaanite, of the Hethite, and of the Amorrhite, and of the Pherezite, and of the Jebusite, and of the Gergezite, to give it to his seed: and thou hast fulfilled thy words, because thou art just.
Psalms 2:7The Lord hath said to me: Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee.
Psalms 18:30For by thee I shall be delivered from temptation; and through my God I shall go over a wall.
Psalms 84:9O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob.
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 22:3-51
David's Song of Praise. ( b. c. 1020.) 1 And David spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul: Observe here, I. That it has often been the lot of God's people to have many enemies, and to be in imminent danger of falling into their hands. David was a man after God's heart, but not after men's heart: many were those that hated him, and sought his ruin; Saul is particularly named, either, 1. As distinguished… Read the whole commentary →