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¹ I will love thee, O Yahweh my strength!² Yahweh, was my mountain crag and my stronghold, and my deliverer: My GOD, was my rock, I sought refuge in him, My shield, and my horn of salvation, my high tower.³ As one worthy to be praised, called I on Yahweh, - And, from my foes, was I saved.⁴ The meshes of death encompassed me, The torrents of perdition, made me afraid;⁵ The meshes of hades, had surrounded me, The snares of death, had confronted me,⁶ In my distress, called I on Yahweh, And, unto my God, made outcry for help, He heard, out of his temple, my voice, And my outcry for help came before him - entered into his ears!⁷ Then did the earth shake and quake, Even, the foundations of the mountains, were deeply moved, Yea they did shake, because he was angry.⁸ There went up smoke in his nostrils, and, a fire out of his mouth, devoured, Live coals, were kindled from it:⁹ Then he stretched out the heaven, and came down, - and, thick gloom, was under his feet;¹⁰ Then he rode on a cherub, and flew, and darted on the wings of the wind;¹¹ Made darkness his hiding-place, Round about him - his pavilion, Darkness of waters, clouds of vapours.¹² Out of the brightness before him, his clouds rolled along, hail, and live coals of fire.¹³ Then did Yahweh thunder in the heavens, and the Highest uttered his voice, - hail, and live coals of fire.¹⁴ And he sent forth his arrows and scattered them, yea, lightnings, he shot out, and confused them.¹⁵ Then appeared the channels of waters, were uncovered the foundations of the world, - At thy rebuke O Yahweh, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.¹⁶ He sent from on high, he took me, - he drew me out of many waters.¹⁷ He rescued me from my foe, in his might, and from them who hated me, because they were too strong for me:¹⁸ They confronted me, in the day of my necessity, Then became Yahweh my stay:¹⁹ And brought me out, into a large place, he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

²⁰ Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands, he repaid me;²¹ For I had kept the ways of Yahweh, and not broken away from my God;²² For, all his regulations, were before me, and, his statutes, did I not put from me:²³ So became I blameless with him, and kept myself from mine iniquity.²⁴ Yahweh therefore repaid me according to my righteousness, according to the pureness of my hands, before his eyes.²⁵ With the loving, thou didst show thyself loving, - With the blameless man, thou didst show thyself blameless;²⁶ With the pure, thou didst show thyself pure, But, with the perverse, thou didst show thyself ready to contend.²⁷ For, as for thee, an oppressed people, thou didst save, but, looks that were lofty, layedst thou low;²⁸ For, thou, didst light up my lamp, Yahweh my God, enlightened my darkness;

²⁹ For, by thee, I ran through a troop, and, by my God, I leapt over a wall.³⁰ As for GOD, blameless is his way, The speech of Yahweh hath been proved, A shield, he is to all who seek refuge in him.³¹ For who is a GOD, save Yahweh? And who is a Rock, save our God?³² The GOD who girded me with strength, and set forth, as blameless, my way:³³ Planting my feet like hinds' feet , yea, on my high places, he caused me to stand:³⁴ Teaching my hands to war, - so that a bow of bronze was bent by mine arms.³⁵ Thus didst thou grant me, as a shield, thy salvation, - and, thy right hand, sustained me, and, thy condescension, made me great.³⁶ Thou didst widen my stepping-places under me, so that, mine ankles, faltered not.³⁷ I pursued my foes, and overtook them, and returned not, till they were consumed:³⁸ I crushed them, and they were unable to rise, They fell under my feet.³⁹ Thus didst thou gird me with strength, for the battle, Thou subduedst mine assailants under me.⁴⁰ As for my foes, thou didst give me their neck, and, as for them who hated me, I destroyed them.⁴¹ They cried out, but there was none to save, unto Yahweh, but he answered them not.⁴² Then did I beat them in pieces, like dust on the face of the wind. Like the mire in the lanes, did I scatter them.⁴³ Thus didst thou rescue me from the contentions of a people, - didst appoint me to be the head of nations, A people I had not known, served me:⁴⁴ At the hearing of the ear, they submitted to me, the sons of the foreigner, came cringing unto me:⁴⁵ The sons of the foreigner, lost heart, and came quaking out of their fortresses.⁴⁶ Yahweh liveth and, blessed, be my Rock, yea, exalted, be the God of my salvation:⁴⁷ The GOD, who hath avenged me, - and subjugated peoples under me:⁴⁸ Who hath delivered me from my foes, - Yea, from mine assailants, hast thou set me on high, From the man of violence, hast thou rescued me.⁴⁹ For this cause, will I praise thee among the nations, O Yahweh, and, to thy Name, will I sweep the strings: - ⁵⁰ Who hath made great the victories of his King, - and shown lovingkindness to his Anointed One, To David and to his Seed, Unto times age-abiding.