¹ I will love you, O LORD, my strength. ² The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in who I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. ³ I will call on the LORD, who is woryour to be praised: so will I be saved from my enemies. ⁴ The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. ⁵ The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me. ⁶ In my distress I called on the LORD, and cried to my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears. ⁷ Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was angry. ⁸ There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. ⁹ He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet. ¹⁰ And he rode on a cherub, and did fly: yes, he did fly on the wings of the wind. ¹¹ He made darkness his secret place his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies. ¹² At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire. ¹³ The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire. ¹⁴ Yes, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them. ¹⁵ Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils. ¹⁶ He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters. ¹⁷ He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me. ¹⁸ They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay. ¹⁹ He brought me forward also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me. ²⁰ The LORD 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 judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me. ²³ I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity. ²⁴ Therefore has the LORD recompensed 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 an upright man you will show yourself upright ²⁶ With the pure you will show yourself pure and with the perverse you will show yourself perverse. ²⁷ For you will save the afflicted people but will bring down high looks. ²⁸ For you will light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness. ²⁹ For by you I have run through a troop and by my God have I leaped over a wall. ³⁰ As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him. ³¹ For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God? ³² It is God that girds me with strength, and makes my way perfect. ³³ He makes my feet like hinds' feet, and sets me on my high places. ³⁴ He teaches my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms. ³⁵ You have also given me the shield of your salvation: and your right hand has heldme up, and your gentleness has made me great. ³⁶ you have enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip. ³⁷ I have pursued my enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed. ³⁸ I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet. ³⁹ For you have girded me with strength to the battle: you have subdued under me those that rose up against me. ⁴⁰ you have also given me the necks of my enemies that I might destroy them that hate me. ⁴¹ They cried, but there was none to save them: even to the LORD, but he answered them not. ⁴² Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets. ⁴³ you have delivered me from the strivings of the people and you have made me the head of the heathen: a people Who I have not known will serve me. ⁴⁴ As soon as they hear of me, they will obey me: the strangers will submit themselves to me. ⁴⁵ The strangers will fade away, and be afraid out of their close places. ⁴⁶ The LORD lives and blessed be my rock and let the God of my salvation be exalted. ⁴⁷ It is God that avenges me, and subdues the people under me. ⁴⁸ He delivers me from my enemies: yes, you lifts me up above those that rise up against me: you have delivered me from the violent man. ⁴⁹ Therefore will I give thanks to you, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises to your name. ⁵⁰ Great deliverance gives he to his king; and shows mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.