36 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great.

Other Translations of 2 Samuel 22:36

New International Version

36 You make your saving help my shield; your help has madeDead Sea Scrolls; Masoretic Text "shield;" / "you stoop down to make" me great.

English Standard Version

36 You have given me the shield of your salvation, and your gentleness made me great.

The Message

36 You protect me with salvation-armor; you touch me and I feel ten feet tall.

New King James Version

36 "You have also given me the shield of Your salvation; Your gentleness has made me great.

New Living Translation

36 You have given me your shield of victory; your help has made me great.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on 2 Samuel 22:36

Chapter Contents

David's psalm of thanksgiving.

This chapter is a psalm of praise; we find it afterwards nearly as 2 Timothy 4:18. Those who receive signal mercies from God, ought to give him the glory. In the day that God delivered David, he sang this song. While the mercy is fresh, and we are most affected with it, let the thank-offering be brought, to be kindled with the fire of that affection. All his joys and hopes close, as all our hopes should do, in the great Redeemer.