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¹ And David spoke to the LORD the words of this song in the day [that] the LORD had delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from 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 preserver; thou savest me from violence.⁴ I will call on the LORD, [who is] worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from my enemies.⁵ When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly-men made me afraid;⁶ The sorrows of hell encompassed me; the snares of death seized me;⁷ In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry [entered] 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 flew: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind.¹² And he made darkness pavilions around 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 laid open, 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, from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.¹⁹ They fell upon me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my support.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 my 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 show thyself merciful, [and] with the upright man thou wilt show thyself upright.²⁷ With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt contend.²⁸ And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thy 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 my 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 have not slipped.³⁸ I have pursued my 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 have 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 my enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.⁴² They looked, but [there was] none to save; [even] to the LORD, but he answered them not.⁴³ Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I stamped them as the mire of the street, [and] 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 to me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient to me.⁴⁶ Strangers shall fade away, and they shall tremble from 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 my 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 to thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and I will sing praises to thy name.⁵¹ [He is] the tower of salvation for his king: and [he] showeth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.