Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, even mine;
³ God, my rock, in him will I take refuge;
My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge;
My saviour, thou savest me from violence.
⁴ I will call upon Jehovah, who is worthy to be praised:
So shall I be saved from mine enemies.
⁵ For the waves of death compassed me;
The floods of ^[a]ungodliness made me afraid:
⁶ The cords of Sheol were round about me;
The snares of death came upon me.
⁷ In my distress I called upon Jehovah;
Yea, I called unto my God:
And he heard my voice out of his temple,
And my cry came into his ears.
⁸ Then the earth shook and trembled,
The foundations of heaven quaked
And were shaken, because he was wroth.
⁹ There went up a smoke ^[b]out of his nostrils,
And fire out of his mouth devoured:
Coals were kindled by it.
¹⁰ He bowed the heavens also, and came down;
And thick darkness was under his feet.
¹¹ And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly;
Yea, he was seen upon the wings of the wind.
¹² And he made darkness pavilions round about him,
Gathering of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
¹³ At the brightness before him
Coals of fire were kindled.
¹⁴ Jehovah thundered from heaven,
And the Most High uttered his voice.
¹⁵ And he sent out arrows, and scattered them;
Lightning, and discomfited them.
¹⁶ Then the channels of the sea appeared,
The foundations of the world were laid bare,
By the rebuke of Jehovah,
At the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
¹⁷ He sent from on high, he took me;
He drew me out of ^[c]many waters;
¹⁸ He delivered me from my strong enemy,
From them that hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
¹⁹ They came upon me in the day of my calamity;
But Jehovah was my stay.
²⁰ He brought me forth also into a large place;
He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
²¹ Jehovah rewarded me according to my righteousness;
According to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
²² For I have kept the ways of Jehovah,
And have not wickedly departed from my God.
²³ For all his ordinances were before me;
And as for his statutes, I did not depart from them.
²⁴ I was also perfect toward him;
And I kept myself from mine iniquity.
²⁵ Therefore hath Jehovah recompensed me according to my righteousness,
According to my cleanness in his eyesight.
²⁶ With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful;
With the perfect man thou wilt show thyself perfect;
²⁷ With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure;
And with the perverse thou wilt show thyself ^[d]froward.
²⁸ And the afflicted people thou wilt save;
But thine eyes are upon the haughty, ^[e]that thou mayest bring them down.
²⁹ For thou art my lamp, O Jehovah;
And Jehovah will lighten my darkness.
³⁰ For by thee I run ^[f]upon a troop;
By my God do I leap over a wall.
³¹ As for God, his way is perfect:
The word of Jehovah is tried;
He is a shield unto all them that take refuge in him.
³² For who is God, save Jehovah?
And who is a rock, save our God?
³³ God is my strong fortress;
And he ^[g]guideth the perfect in his way.
³⁴ He maketh ^[h]his feet like hinds’ feet,
And setteth me upon my high places.
³⁵ He teacheth my hands to war,
So that mine arms do bend a bow of brass.
³⁶ Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation;
And thy ^[i]gentleness hath made me great.
³⁷ Thou hast enlarged my steps under me;
And my ^[j]feet have not slipped.
³⁸ I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them;
Neither did I turn again till they were consumed.
³⁹ And I have consumed them, and smitten them through, so that they cannot arise:
Yea, they are fallen under my feet.
⁴⁰ For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle;
Thou hast ^[k]subdued under me those that rose up against me.
⁴¹ Thou hast also made mine enemies turn their backs unto me,
That I might cut off them that hate me.
⁴² They looked, but there was none to save;
Even unto Jehovah, but he answered them not.
⁴³ Then did I beat them small as the dust of the earth,
I did crush them as the mire of the streets, and did spread them abroad.
⁴⁴ Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people;
Thou ^[l]hast kept me to be the head of the nations:
A people whom I have not known shall serve me.
⁴⁵ The foreigners shall ^[m]submit themselves unto me:
As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me.
⁴⁶ The foreigners shall fade away,
And shall ^[n]come trembling out of their close places.
⁴⁷ Jehovah liveth; And blessed be my rock;
And exalted be God, the rock of my salvation,
⁴⁸ Even the God that executeth vengeance for me,
And that bringeth down peoples under me,
⁴⁹ And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies:
Yea, thou liftest me up above them that rise up against me;
Thou deliverest me from the violent man.
⁵⁰ Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O Jehovah, among the nations,
And will sing praises unto thy name.
^51 [o]Great ^[p]deliverance giveth he to his king,
And showeth lovingkindness to his anointed,
To David and to his seed, for evermore.