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¹ I will love thee, O Lord, my strength. ² The Lord is my firm support, and my refuge, and my deliverer; my God is my helper, I will hope in him; he is my defender, and the horn of my salvation, and my helper. ³ I will call upon the Lord with praises, and I shall be saved from mine enemies. ⁴ The pangs of death compassed me, and the torrents of ungodliness troubled me exceedingly. ⁵ The pangs of hell came round about me: the snares of death prevented me. ⁶ And when I was afflicted I called upon the Lord, and cried to my God: he heard my voice out of this holy temple, and my cry shall enter before him, even into his ears. ⁷ Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains were disturbed, and were shaken, because God was angry with them. ⁸ There went up a smoke in his wrath, and fire burst into a flame at his presence: coals were kindled at it. ⁹ And he bowed the heaven, and came down: and thick darkness was under his feet. ¹⁰ And he mounted on cherubs and flew: he flew on the wings of winds. ¹¹ And he made darkness his secret place: round about him was his tabernacle, even dark water in the clouds of the air. ¹² At the brightness before him the clouds passed, hail and coals of fire. ¹³ The Lord also thundered from heaven, and the Highest uttered his voice. ¹⁴ And he sent forth his weapons, and scattered them; and multiplied lightnings, and routed them. ¹⁵ And the springs of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed, at thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blasting of the breath of thy wrath. ¹⁶ He sent from on high and took me, he drew me to himself out of many waters. ¹⁷ He will deliver me from my mighty enemies, and from them that hate me; for they are stronger than I. ¹⁸ They prevented me in the day of mine affliction: but the Lord was my stay against them. ¹⁹ And he brought me out into a wide place: he will deliver me, because he has pleasure in me.

²⁰ And the Lord will recompense me according to my righteousness; even according to the purity of my hands will he recompense me. ²¹ For I have kept the way of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God. ²² For all his judgments were before me, and his ordinances departed not from me. ²³ And I shall be blameless with hem, and shall keep myself from mine iniquity. ²⁴ And the Lord shall recompense me according to my righteousness, and according to the purity of my hands before his eyes. ²⁵ With the holy thou wilt be holy; and with the innocent man thou wilt be innocent. ²⁶ And with the excellent man thou wilt be excellent; and with the perverse thou wilt shew frowardness. ²⁷ For thou wilt save the lowly people, and wilt humble the eyes of the proud. ²⁸ For thou, O Lord, wilt light my lamp: my God, thou wilt lighten my darkness.

²⁹ For by thee shall I be delivered from a troop; and by my God I will pass over a wall. ³⁰ As for my God, his way is perfect: the oracles of the Lord are tried in the fire; he is a protector of all them that hope in him. ³¹ For who is God but the Lord? and who is a God except our God? ³² It is God that girds me with strength, and has made my way blameless: ³³ who strengthens my feet as hart’s feet, and sets me upon high places. ³⁴ He instructs my hands for war: and thou hast made my arms as a brazen bow. ³⁵ And thou hast made me secure in my salvation: and thy right hand has helped me, and thy correction has upheld me to the end; yea, thy correction itself shall instruct me. ³⁶ Thou has made room for my goings under me, and by footsteps did not fail. ³⁷ I will pursue mine enemies, and overtake them; and I will not turn back until they are consumed. ³⁸ I will dash them to pieces and they shall not be able to stand: they shall fall under my feet. ³⁹ For thou hast girded me with strength for war: thou hast beaten down under me all that rose up against me. ⁴⁰ And thou has made mine enemies turn their backs before me; and thou hast destroyed them that hated me. ⁴¹ They cried, but there was no deliverer: even to the Lord, but he hearkened not to them. ⁴² I will grind them as the mud of the streets: and I will beat them small as dust before the wind. ⁴³ Deliver me from the gain sayings of the people: thou shalt make me head of the Gentiles: a people whom I knew not served me, ⁴⁴ at the hearing of the ear they obeyed me: the strange children lied to me. ⁴⁵ The strange children waxed old, and fell away from their paths through lameness. ⁴⁶ The Lord lives; and blessed be my God; and let the God of my salvation be exalted. ⁴⁷ It is God that avenges me, and has subdued the nations under me; ⁴⁸ my deliverer from angry enemies: thou shalt set me on high above them that rise up against me: thou shalt deliver me from the unrighteous man. ⁴⁹ Therefore will I confess to thee, O Lord, among the Gentiles, and sing to thy name. ⁵⁰ God magnifies the deliverances of his king; and deals mercifully with David his anointed, and his seed, for ever.