Thanksgiving For God's Powerful Deliverance


II Samuel Chapter 23



And Davide 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:

When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid, the sorrows of hell compassed me about, the snares of death prevented me ... in my distress I called upon The Lord, and cried to my God ... and He did hear my voice out of His temple, and my cry did enter into His ears.

Then the earth shook and trembled, the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because He was wroth.

There went up a smoke out of His nostrils, and fire out of His mouth devoured ... coals were kindled by it.

He bowed the heavens also, and came down ... and the darkness was under His feet.

And He rode upon a cherub and did fly ... and He was seen upon the wings of the wind.

And He made darkness pavilions round about Him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

Through the brightness before Him were coals of fire kindled.

The Lord thundered from heaven ... and the most High uttered His voice.

And He sent out arrows, and scattered them ... lightning and discomfited them.

And the channels of the sea appeared ... the foundations of the earth were discovered, at the rebuking of The Lord, at the blast of the breath of His nostrils.

He sent from above ... He took me, He drew me out of many waters.

He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me ... for they were too strong for me.

The Lord liveth, and blessed be my rock ... and exalted be The God of the rock of my salvation.

It is God that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people under me.

He is the Tower of Salvation for His king ... and sheweth mercy to His anointed.