2 Samuel 22:33
God who hath girded me with strength, and made my way perfect.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect.
In Context
32Who is God but the Lord: and who is strong but our God?
34Making my feet like the feet of harts, and setting me upon my high places.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 18:13Thou shalt be perfect, and without spot before the Lord thy God.
Job 22:3What doth it profit God if thou be just? or what dost thou give him if thy way be unspotted?
Psalms 27:1The psalm of David before he was anointed. The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the protector of my life: of whom shall I be afraid?
Psalms 31:3Bow down thy ear to me: make haste to deliver me. Be thou unto me a God, a protector, and a house of refuge, to save me.
Psalms 46:1Unto the end, for the sons of Core, for the hidden.
Psalms 101:6My eyes were upon the faithful of the earth, to sit with me: the man that walked in the perfect way, he served me.
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 →