2 - The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer;my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge;my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
3 - I call on The LORD, who is worthy to be praised;and I am saved from my enemies.
4 - The cords of death surrounded me.The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
5 - The cords of Sheol were around me.The snares of death came on me.
6 - In my distress I called on The LORD,and cried to my God.He heard my voice out of his temple.My cry before him came into his ears.
7 - Then the earth shook and trembled.The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken,because he was angry.
8 - Smoke went out of his nostrils.Consuming fire came out of his mouth.Coals were kindled by it.
9 - He bowed the heavens also, and came down.Thick darkness was under his feet.
10 - He rode on a cherub, and flew.Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.
11 - He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him,darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
12 - At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed,hailstones and coals of fire.
13 - The LORD also thundered in the sky.The Most High uttered his voice:hailstones and coals of fire.
14 - He sent out his arrows, and scattered them;Yes, great lightning bolts, and routed them.
15 - Then the channels of waters appeared.The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, The LORD,at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
16 - He sent from on high.He took me.He drew me out of many waters.
17 - He delivered me from my strong enemy,from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
18 - They came on me in the day of my calamity,but the LORD was my support.
19 - He brought me out also into a large place.He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
20 - The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness.According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
21 - For I have kept the ways of The LORD,and have not wickedly departed from my God.
22 - For all his ordinances were before me.I didn't put away his statutes from me.
23 - I was also blameless with him.I kept myself from my iniquity.
24 - Therefore the LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness,according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
25 - With the merciful you will show yourself merciful.With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.
26 - With the pure, you will show yourself pure.With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
27 - For you will save the afflicted people,but the haughty eyes you will bring down.
28 - For you will light my lamp, The LORD.My God will light up my darkness.
29 - For by you, I advance through a troop.By my God, I leap over a wall.
30 - As for God, his way is perfect.The LORD's word is tried.He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
31 - For who is God, except The LORD?Who is a rock, besides our God,
32 - the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?
33 - He makes my feet like deer's feet,and sets me on my high places.
34 - He teaches my hands to war,so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.
35 - You have also given me the shield of your salvation.Your right hand sustains me.Your gentleness has made me great.
36 - You have enlarged my steps under me,My feet have not slipped.
37 - I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them.Neither will I turn again until they are consumed.
38 - I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise.They shall fall under my feet.
39 - For you have armed me with strength to the battle.You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
40 - You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me,that I might cut off those who hate me.
41 - They cried, but there was no one to save;even to The LORD, but he didn't answer them.
42 - Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind.I cast them out as the mire of the streets.
43 - You have delivered me from the strivings of the people.You have made me the head of the nations.A people whom I have not known shall serve me.
44 - As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me.The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.
45 - The foreigners shall fade away,and shall come trembling out of their close places.
46 - The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock.Exalted be the God of my salvation,
47 - even the God who executes vengeance for me,and subdues peoples under me.
48 - He rescues me from my enemies.Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me.You deliver me from the violent man.
49 - Therefore I will give thanks to you, The LORD, among the nations,and will sing praises to your name.
50 - He gives great deliverance to his king,and shows loving kindness to his anointed,to David and to his offspring, forever more.
