15 God shot his arrows - pandemonium! He hurled his lightnings - a rout! 16 The secret sources of ocean were exposed, the hidden depths of earth lay uncovered The moment God roared in protest, let loose his hurricane anger. 17 But me he caught - reached all the way from sky to sea; he pulled me out 18 Of that ocean of hate, that enemy chaos, the void in which I was drowning. 19 They hit me when I was down, but God stuck by me. 20 He stood me up on a wide-open field; I stood there saved - surprised to be loved! 21 God made my life complete when I placed all the pieces before him. When I cleaned up my act, he gave me a fresh start. 22 Indeed, I've kept alert to God's ways; I haven't taken God for granted.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on 2 Samuel 22:15-22
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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.