For the waves of death compassed me; The floods of ungodliness made me afraid:
For the waves of death engulfed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.
When the breakers of death compassed me, The streams of the worthless terrify me,
For the waves of death encompassed me, Torrents of Belial made me afraid.
2 Samuel — Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament).
S E C O N D S A M U E L CHAP. XXII. This chapter is a psalm, a psalm of praise; we find it afterwards inserted among David's psalms ( Ps. xviii. ) with some little variation. We have it here as it was first composed for his…