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38 I haue folowed vpon myne enemies, and destroyed them: and turned not againe, vntill I had consumed them. 39 I haue wasted them, and wounded them, that they shal not be able to aryse: yea, they shall fall vnder my feete. 40 Thou hast gyrded me about with might to battayle: and them that rose against me, hast thou subdued vnder me. 41 And thou hast geuen me the neckes of myne enemies: that I might destroye them that hate me. 42 They loked about, but there was none to saue them: euen vnto the Lorde, but he heard them not. 43 Then did I beate them as small as the dust of the earth: I did stampe them as the clay of the streate, and did spreade them abrode. 44 Thou also hast deliuered me from the discention of my people, thou hast kept me to be an head ouer nations: the people which I knew not, do serue me. 45 Straunge childre dissemble with me: at the hearing of the eare, they obey me. 46 Straunge children wil shrinke away: and they shall be smytten with feare in their priuie chamber. 47 Let the Lord lyue, and blessed be my strength: magnified be God euen the force of my saluation. 48 It is God that geueth me power to reuenge me: & bringeth downe the people vnder me. 49 He deliuereth me from myne enemies, thou also hast lyft me on hie from them that rose against me: thou hast delyuered me from the wicked man. 50 And therefore I wyll prayse thee O Lorde among the nations: and wyll sing vnto thy name. 51 He is the towre of saluation for his king, and dealeth mercyfully with his annoynted: euen with Dauid, and with his seede for euermore. 2 Samuel 22:38-51, Bishops' Bible of 1568. Public domain.
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