| 1 | And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day [that] the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul: |
| 2 | And he said, The LORD [is] my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; |
| 3 | The God of my rock; in him will I trust: [he is] 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 on the LORD, [who is] worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies. |
| 5 | When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid; |
| 6 | The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me; |
| 7 | In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry [did enter] into his ears. |
| 8 | Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth. |
| 9 | There went up a smoke 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 darkness [was] under his feet. |
| 11 | And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind. |
| 12 | And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, [and] thick clouds of the skies. |
| 13 | Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled. |
| 14 | The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice. |
| 15 | And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them. |
| 16 | And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils. |
| 17 | He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters; |
| 18 | He delivered me from my strong enemy, [and] from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me. |
| 19 | They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay. |
| 20 | He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me. |
| 21 | The LORD 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 the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God. |
| 23 | For all his judgments [were] before me: and [as for] his statutes, I did not depart from them. |
| 24 | I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity. |
| 25 | Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight. |
| 26 | With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, [and] with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright. |
| 27 | With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury. |
| 28 | And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes [are] upon the haughty, [that] thou mayest bring [them] down. |
| 29 | For thou [art] my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness. |
| 30 | For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall. |
| 31 | [As for] God, his way [is] perfect; the word of the LORD [is] tried: he [is] a buckler to all them that trust in him. |
| 32 | For who [is] God, save the LORD? and who [is] a rock, save our God? |
| 33 | God [is] my strength [and] power: and he maketh my way perfect. |
| 34 | He maketh my feet like hinds' [feet]: and setteth me upon my high places. |
| 35 | He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms. |
| 36 | Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great. |
| 37 | Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip. |
| 38 | I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them. |
| 39 | And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet. |
| 40 | For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me. |
| 41 | Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me. |
| 42 | They looked, but [there was] none to save; [even] unto the LORD, but he answered them not. |
| 43 | Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, [and] did spread them abroad. |
| 44 | Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me [to be] head of the heathen: a people [which] I knew not shall serve me. |
| 45 | Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me. |
| 46 | Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places. |
| 47 | The LORD liveth; and blessed [be] my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation. |
| 48 | It [is] God that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people under me, |
| 49 | And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man. |
| 50 | Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name. |
| 51 | [He is] the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore. |
