| 1 | I love you, Yahweh, my strength. |
| 2 | Yahweh 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 | 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 Yahweh, 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 | Yahweh 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, Yahweh, 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 Yahweh was my support. |
| 19 | He brought me forth also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me. |
| 20 | Yahweh 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 Yahweh, 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 Yahweh 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, Yahweh. 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 word of Yahweh is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him. |
| 31 | For who is God, except Yahweh? 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 none to save; even to Yahweh, 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 | Yahweh 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, Yahweh, 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 seed, forevermore. Psalm 19 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. |
