“For all His ordinances were before me,
And as for His statutes, I did not depart from them.

“I was also blameless toward Him,
And I kept myself from my iniquity.

“With the kind You show Yourself kind,
With the blameless You show Yourself blameless;

“As for God, His way is blameless;
The word of the Lord is tested;
He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.

“God is my strong fortress;
And He sets the blameless in His way.

“Therefore the Lord has recompensed me according to my righteousness,
According to my cleanness before His eyes.

“For by You I can run upon a troop;
By my God I can leap over a wall.

“You have also given me the shield of Your salvation,
And Your help makes me great.

“They looked, but there was none to save;
Even to the Lord, but He did not answer them.

“He makes my feet like hinds’ feet,
And sets me on my high places.

“The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock;
And exalted be God, the rock of my salvation,

“He trains my hands for battle,
So that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

“You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me,
And I destroyed those who hated me.

“You enlarge my steps under me,
And my feet have not slipped.

“And You save an afflicted people;
But Your eyes are on the haughty whom You abase.

And David spoke the words of this song to the Lord in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.

“For I have kept the ways of the Lord,
And have not acted wickedly against my God.

“For You are my lamp, O Lord;
And the Lord illumines my darkness.

He said,
“The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer;

With the pure You show Yourself pure,
And with the perverted You show Yourself astute.

My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge,
My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold and my refuge;
My savior, You save me from violence.

“For who is God, besides the Lord?
And who is a rock, besides our God?

“And He rode on a cherub and flew;
And He appeared on the wings of the wind.

“I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised,
And I am saved from my enemies.

“Therefore I will give thanks to You, O Lord, among the nations,
And I will sing praises to Your name.

“Smoke went up out of His nostrils,
Fire from His mouth devoured;
Coals were kindled by it.

The cords of Sheol surrounded me;
The snares of death confronted me.

“In my distress I called upon the Lord,
Yes, I cried to my God;
And from His temple He heard my voice,
And my cry for help came into His ears.

“And I have devoured them and shattered them, so that they did not rise;
And they fell under my feet.

“Then the channels of the sea appeared,
The foundations of the world were laid bare
By the rebuke of the Lord,
At the blast of the breath of His nostrils.

“And He made darkness canopies around Him,
A mass of waters, thick clouds of the sky.

“For the waves of death encompassed me;
The torrents of destruction overwhelmed me;

“The Lord thundered from heaven,
And the Most High uttered His voice.

“He also brought me forth into a broad place;
He rescued me, because He delighted in me.

“He bowed the heavens also, and came down
With thick darkness under His feet.

“For You have girded me with strength for battle;
You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

“Then the earth shook and quaked,
The foundations of heaven were trembling
And were shaken, because He was angry.

“He sent from on high, He took me;
He drew me out of many waters.

“And He sent out arrows, and scattered them,
Lightning, and routed them.

“The Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness;
According to the cleanness of my hands He has recompensed me.

“He delivered me from my strong enemy,
From those who hated me, for they were too strong for me.

“You have also delivered me from the contentions of my people;
You have kept me as head of the nations;
A people whom I have not known serve me.

“From the brightness before Him
Coals of fire were kindled.

“They confronted me in the day of my calamity,
But the Lord was my support.

“He is a tower of deliverance to His king,
And shows lovingkindness to His anointed,
To David and his descendants forever.”

“I pursued my enemies and destroyed them,
And I did not turn back until they were consumed.

“Then I pulverized them as the dust of the earth;
I crushed and stamped them as the mire of the streets.

“Foreigners pretend obedience to me;
As soon as they hear, they obey me.

The God who executes vengeance for me,
And brings down peoples under me,

“Foreigners lose heart,
And come trembling out of their fortresses.

Who also brings me out from my enemies;
You even lift me above those who rise up against me;
You rescue me from the violent man.