1 I love you, Yahweh, my strength.

2 Y ahweh 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 Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised; and I am saved from my enemies.

4 T he cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

5 T he cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me.

6 I n my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

7 T hen the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.

8 S moke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.

9 H e bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.

10 H e rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.

11 H e made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

12 A t the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire.

13 Y ahweh also thundered in the sky. The Most High uttered his voice: hailstones and coals of fire.

14 H e sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, great lightning bolts, and routed them.

15 T hen the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.

16 H e sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.

17 H e delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.

18 T hey came on me in the day of my calamity, but Yahweh was my support.

19 H e brought me out also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

20 Y ahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.

21 F or I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

22 F or 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 T herefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.

25 W ith the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.

26 W ith the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.

27 F or you will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes you will bring down.

28 F or you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.

29 F or by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall.

30 A s for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

31 F or who is God, except Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God,

32 t he God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?

33 H e makes my feet like deer’s feet, and sets me on my high places.

34 H e teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.

35 Y ou have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.

36 Y ou 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 F or you have armed me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

40 Y ou have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.

41 T hey cried, but there was no one to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.

42 T hen I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets.

43 Y ou 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 A s soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.

45 T he foreigners shall fade away, and shall come trembling out of their close places.

46 Y ahweh lives; and blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my salvation,

47 e ven the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues peoples under me.

48 H e 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 T herefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations, and will sing praises to your name.

50 H e gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his offspring, forever more.