1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David the servant of Yehovah, who spoke to Yehovah the words of this song in the day that Yehovah delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: and he said, I love you, O Yehovah, my strength.
2Yehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; My God, my rock, in whom I will take refuge; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
3I will call upon Yehovah, who is worthy to be praised: So shall I be saved from my enemies.
4The cords of death surrounded me, And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
5The cords of Sheol were all around me; The snares of death came upon me.
6In my distress I called upon Yehovah, And cried to my God: He heard my voice out of his temple, And my cry before him came into his ears.
7Then the earth shook and trembled; The foundations also of the mountains quaked And were shaken, because he was angry.
8There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, And fire out of his mouth devoured: Coals were kindled by it.
9He bowed the heavens also, and came down; And thick darkness was under his feet.
10And he rode upon a cherub, and flew; Yes, he soared upon the wings of the wind.
11He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion all around him, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
12At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, Hailstones and coals of fire.
13Yehovah also thundered in the heavens, And the Most High uttered his voice, Hailstones and coals of fire.
14And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, lightnings manifold, and routed them.
15Then the channels of waters appeared, And the foundations of the world were laid bare, At your rebuke, O Yehovah, At the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
16He sent from on high, he took me; He drew me out of many waters.
17He delivered me from my strong enemy, And from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
18They came upon me in the day of my calamity; But Yehovah was my stay.
19He brought me forth also into a large place; He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
20Yehovah has rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands he has recompensed me.
21For I have kept the ways of Yehovah, And have not wickedly departed from my God.
22For all his ordinances were before me, And I did not put away his statutes from me.
23I was also perfect with him, And I kept myself from my iniquity.
24Therefore Yehovah has recompensed me according to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
25With the merciful you will show yourself merciful; With the perfect man you will show yourself perfect;
26With the pure you will show yourself pure; And with the perverse you will show yourself astute.
27For you will save the afflicted people; But the haughty eyes you will bring down.
28For you will light my lamp: Yehovah my God will lighten my darkness.
29For by you I run against a troop; And by my God I leap over a wall.
30As for God, his way is perfect: The word of Yehovah is tried; He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
31For who is God, except Yehovah? And who is a rock, besides our God,
32The God who girds me with strength, And makes my way perfect?
33He makes my feet like hinds’ feet: And sets me upon my high places.
34He teaches my hands to war; So that my arms bend a bow of bronze.
35You have also given me the shield of your salvation; And your right hand has held me up, And your gentleness has made me great.
36You have enlarged my steps under me, And my feet have not slipped.
37I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them; Nor will I turn back till they are consumed.
38I will strike them through, so that they shall not be able to rise: They shall fall under my feet.
39For you have girded me with strength for the battle: You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
40You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, That I might cut off those who hate me.
41They cried, but there was none to save; Even to Yehovah, but he did not answer them.
42Then I beat them fine as the dust before the wind; I cast them out as the mire of the streets.
43You 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.
44As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me; The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.
45The foreigners shall fade away, And shall come trembling out of their strongholds.
46Yehovah lives; and blessed be my rock; And exalted be the God of my salvation,
47Even the God who executes vengeance for me, And subdues peoples under me.
48He rescues me from my enemies; Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me; You deliver me from the violent man.
49Therefore I will give thanks to you, O Yehovah, among the nations, And will sing praises to your name.
50Great deliverance he gives to his king, And shows lovingkindness to his anointed, To David and to his seed, forevermore.