2 Samuel 22:40
Good News Translation
You give me strength for the battle and victory over my enemies.

New Revised Standard Version
For you girded me with strength for the battle; you made my assailants sink under me.

Contemporary English Version
You helped me win victories and forced my attackers to fall victim to me.

New American Bible
You girded me with strength for war; subdued adversaries at my feet.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou hast girded me with strength to battle: thou hast made them that resisted me to bow under me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou hast girded me with strength to battle: thou hast made them that resisted me to bow under me.

girded

1 Samuel 17:49-51 And he put his hand into his scrip, and took a stone, and cast it with the sling, and fetching it about, struck the Philistine in the forehead, and he fell on his face upon the earth. . . .

1 Samuel 23:5 David, therefore, and his men, went to Ceila, and fought against the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and made a great slaughter of them: and David saved the inhabitants of Ceila.

Psalm 18:32,39 God, who hath girt me with strength; and made my way blameless. . . .

Isaiah 45:5 I am the Lord, and there is none else: there is no God besides me: I girded thee, and thou hast not known me:

Colossians 1:11 Strengthened with all might according to the power of his glory, in all patience and longsuffering with joy,

them

Psalm 44:5 Thou art thyself my king and my God, who commandest the saving of Jacob.

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.

subdued [heb] caused to bow

Isaiah 60:14 And the children of them that afflict thee, shall come bowing down to thee, and all that slandered thee shall worship the steps of thy feet, and shall call thee the city of the Lord, the Sion of the Holy One of Israel.

Revelation 5:9 And they sung a new canticle, saying: Thou art worthy, O Lord, to take the book and to open the seals thereof: because thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God, in thy blood, out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation:

Context
David's Song of Deliverance
39I will consume them and break them in pieces, so that they shall not rise: they shall fall under my feet. 40Thou hast girded me with strength to battle: thou hast made them that resisted me to bow under me.41My enemies thou hast made to turn their back to me: them that hated me, and I shall destroy them.…
Cross References
Psalm 44:5
Thou art thyself my king and my God, who commandest the saving of Jacob.

Psalm 109:19
May it be unto him like a garment which covereth him; and like a girdle with which he is girded continually.

2 Samuel 22:39
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