2 Samuel 22:3
Good News Translation
My God is my protection, and with him I am safe. He protects me like a shield; he defends me and keeps me safe. He is my savior; he protects me and saves me from violence.

New Revised Standard Version
my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold and my refuge, my savior; you save me from violence.

Contemporary English Version
You are the rock where I am safe. You are my shield, my powerful weapon, and my place of shelter. You rescue me and keep me safe from violence.

New American Bible
my God, my rock of refuge! My shield, my saving horn, my stronghold, my refuge, my savior, from violence you keep me safe.

Douay-Rheims Bible
God is my strong one, in him will I trust: my shield, and the horn of my salvation: he lifteth me up, and is my refuge: my saviour, thou wilt deliver me from iniquity.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

God is my strong one, in him will I trust: my shield, and the horn of my salvation: he lifteth me up, and is my refuge: my saviour, thou wilt deliver me from iniquity.

in him

Hebrews 2:13 And again: I will put my trust in him. And again: Behold I and my children, whom God hath given me.

shield

Genesis 15:1 Now when these things were done, the word of the Lord came to Abram by a vision, saying: Fear not, Abram, I am thy protector, and thy reward exceeding great.

Deuteronomy 33:29 Blessed art thou, Israel: who is like to thee, O people, that art saved by the Lord? the shield of thy help, and the sword of thy glory: thy enemies shall deny thee, and thou shalt tread upon their necks.

Psalm 3:3 But thou, O Lord, art my protector, my glory, and the lifter up of my head.

Psalm 5:12 For thou wilt bless the just. O Lord, thou hast crowned us, as with a shield of thy good will.

Psalm 28:7 The Lord is my helper and my protector: in him hath my heart confided, and I have been helped. And my flesh hath flourished again, and with my will I will give praise to him.

Psalm 84:9,11 Behold, O God our protector: and look on the face of thy Christ. . . .

Psalm 115:9-11 The house of Israel hath hoped in the Lord: he is their helper and their protector. . . .

Proverbs 30:5 Every word of God is fire tried: he is a buckler to them that hope in him.

the horn

1 Samuel 2:1 My heart hath rejoiced in the Lord, and my horn is exalted in my God: my mouth is enlarged over my enemies: because I have joyed in thy salvation.

Luke 1:69 And hath raised up an horn of salvation to us, in the house of David his servant.

my high

2 Samuel 22:51 Giving great salvation to his king, and shewing mercy to David his anointed, and to his seed for ever.

Psalm 61:3 For thou hast been my hope; a tower of strength against the face of the enemy.

Psalm 144:2 My mercy, and my refuge: my support, and my deliverer: My protector, and I have hoped in him: who subdueth my people under me.

Proverbs 18:10 The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the just runneth to it, and shall be exalted.

my refuge

Psalm 9:9 And the Lord is become a refuge for the poor: a helper in due time in tribulation.

Psalm 14:6 For the Lord is in the just generation: you have confounded the counsel of the poor man; but the Lord is his hope.

Psalm 18:2 The Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my deliverer. My God is my helper, and in him will I put my trust. My protector, and the horn of my salvation, and my support.

Psalm 27:5 For he hath hidden me in his tabernacle; in the day of evils, he hath protected me in the secret place of his tabernacle.

Psalm 32:7 Thou art my refuge from the trouble which hath encompassed me: my joy, deliver me from them that surround me.

Psalm 46:1,7,11 Unto the end, for the sons of Core, for the hidden. [2] Our God is our refuge and strength: a helper in troubles, which have found us exceedingly. . . .

Psalm 59:16 But I will sing thy strength: and will extol thy mercy in the morning. For thou art become my support, and my refuge, in the day of my trouble.

Psalm 71:7 I am become unto many as a wonder, but thou art a strong helper.

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Isaiah 32:2 And a man shall be as when one is hid from the wind, and hideth himself from a storm, as rivers of waters in drought, and the shadow of a rock that standeth out in a desert land.

Jeremiah 16:9 For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold I will take away out of this place in your sight, and in your days the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.

my saviour

Isaiah 12:2 Behold, God is my saviour, I will deal confidently, and will not fear: because the Lord is my strength, and my praise, and he is become my salvation.

Isaiah 45:21 Tell ye, and come, and consult together: who hath declared this from the beginning, who hath foretold this from that time? Have not I the Lord, and there is no God else besides me? A just God and a saviour, there is none besides me.

Luke 1:47,71 And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. . . .

Titus 3:4,6 But when the goodness and kindness of God our Saviour appeared: . . .

thou savest

2 Samuel 22:49 Who bringest me forth from my enemies, and liftest me up from them that resist me: from the wicked man thou shalt deliver me.

Psalm 55:9 Cast down, O Lord, and divide their tongues; for I have seen iniquity and contradiction in the city.

Psalm 72:14 He shall redeem their souls from usuries and iniquity: and their names shall be honourable in his sight.

Psalm 86:14 O God, the wicked are risen up against me, and the assembly of the mighty have sought my soul: and they have not set thee before their eyes.

Psalm 140:1,4,11 Unto the end, a psalm of David. [2] Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: rescue me from the unjust man. . . .

Context
David's Song of Deliverance
2And he said: The Lord is my rock, and my strength, and my saviour. 3God is my strong one, in him will I trust: my shield, and the horn of my salvation: he lifteth me up, and is my refuge: my saviour, thou wilt deliver me from iniquity.4I will call on the Lord who is worthy to be praised: and I shall be saved from my enemies.…
Cross References
Luke 1:69
And hath raised up an horn of salvation to us, in the house of David his servant.

Genesis 15:1
Now when these things were done, the word of the Lord came to Abram by a vision, saying: Fear not, Abram, I am thy protector, and thy reward exceeding great.

Deuteronomy 32:4
The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments: God is faithful and without any iniquity, he is just and right.

Deuteronomy 32:37
And he shall say: Where are their gods, in whom they trusted?

Deuteronomy 33:29
Blessed art thou, Israel: who is like to thee, O people, that art saved by the Lord? the shield of thy help, and the sword of thy glory: thy enemies shall deny thee, and thou shalt tread upon their necks.

1 Samuel 2:2
There is none holy as the Lord is: for there is no other beside thee, and there is none strong like our God.

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.

2 Samuel 22:47
The Lord liveth, and my God is blessed: and the strong God of my salvation shall be exalted:

2 Samuel 23:3
The God of Israel said to me, the strong one of Israel spoke, the ruler of men, the just ruler in the fear of God.

Psalm 9:9
And the Lord is become a refuge for the poor: a helper in due time in tribulation.

Psalm 59:16
But I will sing thy strength: and will extol thy mercy in the morning. For thou art become my support, and my refuge, in the day of my trouble.

Proverbs 18:10
The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the just runneth to it, and shall be exalted.

2 Samuel 22:2
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