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¹ I will give you my love, O Lord, my strength.² The Lord is my Rock, my walled town, and my saviour; my God, my Rock, in him will I put my faith; my breastplate, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.³ I will send up my cry to the Lord, who is to be praised; so will I be made safe from those who are against me.⁴ The cords of death were round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear.⁵ The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.⁶ In my trouble my voice went up to the Lord, and my cry to my God: my voice came to his hearing in his holy Temple, and my prayer came before him, even into his ears.⁷ Then trouble and shock came on the earth; and the bases of the mountains were moved and shaking, because he was angry.⁸ There went up a smoke from his nose, and a fire of destruction from his mouth: flames were lighted by it.⁹ The heavens were bent, so that he might come down; and it was dark under his feet.¹⁰ And he went in flight through the air, seated on a storm-cloud: going quickly on the wings of the wind.¹¹ He made the dark his secret place; his tent round him was the dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.¹² Before his shining light his dark clouds went past, raining ice and fire.¹³ The Lord made thunder in the heavens, and the voice of the Highest was sounding out: a rain of ice and fire.¹⁴ He sent out his arrows, driving them in all directions; by his flames of fire they were troubled.¹⁵ Then the deep beds of the waters were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of your words of wrath, O Lord, because of the breath from your mouth.¹⁶ He sent from on high, he took me, pulling me out of great waters.¹⁷ He made me free from my strong hater, and from those who were against me, because they were stronger than I.¹⁸ They came on me in the day of my trouble; but the Lord was my support.¹⁹ He took me out into a wide place; he was my saviour because he had delight in me.

²⁰ The Lord gives me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean before him.²¹ For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God.²² For all his decisions were before me, and I did not put away his laws from me.²³ And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.²⁴ Because of this the Lord has given me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean in his eyes.²⁵ On him who has mercy you will have mercy; to the upright you will be upright;²⁶ He who is holy will see that you are holy; but to the man whose way is not straight you will be a hard judge.²⁷ For you are the saviour of those who are in trouble; but eyes full of pride will be made low.²⁸ You, O Lord, will be my light; by you, my God, the dark will be made bright for me.

²⁹ By your help I have made a way through the wall which was shutting me in; by the help of my God I have gone over a wall.³⁰ As for God, his way is completely good; the word of the Lord is tested; he is a breastplate for all those who put their faith in him.³¹ For who is God but the Lord? or who is a Rock but our God?³² God puts a strong band about me, guiding me in a straight way.³³ He makes my feet like roes' feet, and puts me on high places.³⁴ He makes my hands expert in war, so that a bow of brass is bent by my arms.³⁵ You have given me the breastplate of your salvation: your right hand has been my support, and your mercy has made me great.³⁶ You have made my steps wide under me, so that my feet are kept from slipping.³⁷ I go after my haters and overtake them; not turning back till they are all overcome.³⁸ I will give them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.³⁹ For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who come out against me.⁴⁰ By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.⁴¹ They were crying out, but there was no one to come to their help: even to the Lord, but he gave them no answer.⁴² Then they were crushed as small as dust before the wind; they were drained out like the waste of the streets.⁴³ You have made me free from the fightings of the people; you have made me the head of the nations: a people of whom I had no knowledge will be my servants.⁴⁴ From the time when my name comes to their ears they will be ruled by me: men of other countries will, with false hearts, put themselves under my authority.⁴⁵ They will be wasting away, they will come out of their secret places shaking with fear.⁴⁶ The Lord is living; praise be to my Rock, and let the God of my salvation be honoured.⁴⁷ It is God who sends punishment on my haters, and puts peoples under my rule.⁴⁸ He makes me free from my haters; I am lifted up over those who come up against me: you have made me free from the violent man.⁴⁹ Because of this I will give you praise, O Lord, among the nations, and will make a song of praise to your name.⁵⁰ Great salvation does he give to his king; he has mercy on the king of his selection, David, and on his seed for ever.