1 En Dawid het die woorde van hierdie lied tot die HERE gespreek op die dag toe die HERE hom gered het uit die hand van al sy vyande en uit die hand van Saul.
2 En hy het gesê: Die HERE is my rots en my bergvesting en my redder;
3 God is my rots by wie ek skuil; my skild en die horing van my heil, my rotsvesting en my toevlug, my verlosser; van geweld het U my verlos.
4 Ek roep die HERE aan wat lofwaardig is, en van my vyande word ek verlos.
5 Want die golwe van die dood het my omring, strome van onheil het my oorval.
6 Bande van die doderyk het my omring, strikke van die dood het my teëgekom.
7 Toe ek benoud was, het ek die HERE aangeroep, en ek het geroep tot my God; en uit sy paleis het Hy my stem gehoor, en my hulpgeroep was in sy ore.
8 Toe het die aarde geskud en gebewe, die fondamente van die hemel het gesidder en geskud, omdat Hy toornig was.
9 Rook in sy neus het opgegaan, en 'n vuur uit sy mond het verteer; kole uit Hom het gebrand.
10 En Hy het die hemel gebuig en neergedaal, en wolkedonkerheid was onder sy voete.
11 En Hy het op 'n g,rub gery en gevlieg; ja, Hy het verskyn op die vlerke van die wind.
12 En Hy het duisternis rondom Hom as hutte gestel, versameling van waters, diktes van wolke.
13 Uit die glans voor Hom het gloeiende kole gebrand.
14 Uit die hemel het die HERE gedonder, en die Allerhoogste het sy stem laat hoor.
15 En Hy het pyle uitgestuur en hulle verstrooi, bliksems en hulle verwar.
16 En die beddings van die see het sigbaar geword, die fondamente van die wêreld is blootgelê, deur die dreiging van die HERE, vanweë die geblaas van die wind van sy neus.
17 Uit die hoogte het Hy sy hand uitgestrek, Hy het my gegryp, my uit groot waters getrek.
18 Hy het my verlos van my magtige vyand, van my haters, omdat hulle te sterk was vir my.
19 Hulle het my oorval op die dag van my nood, maar die HERE was my steun.
20 En Hy het my uitgelei in die ruimte, Hy het my gered, omdat Hy behae in my gehad het.
21 Die HERE het met my gehandel na my geregtigheid; na die reinheid van my hande het Hy my vergelde.
22 Want ek het die weë van die HERE gehou en nie goddeloos van my God afgewyk nie.
23 Want al sy verordeninge was voor my, en sy insettinge -- daar het ek nie van afgewyk nie.
24 Maar ek was opreg voor Hom, en ek was op my hoede vir my ongeregtigheid.
25 So het die HERE my dan vergelde na my geregtigheid, na my reinheid voor sy oë.
26 By die liefderyke betoon U Uself liefderyk, by die opregte man opreg,
27 by die reine, rein; maar by die valse betoon U Uself verkeerd.
28 En U verlos die verdrukte volk, maar u oë is teen die hoogmoediges; U verneder hulle.
29 Want U is my lamp, o HERE! En die HERE laat my duisternis opklaar.
30 Want met U loop ek 'n bende storm, met my God spring ek oor 'n muur.
31 Die weg van God is volmaak; die woord van die HERE is gelouter; Hy is 'n skild vir almal wat by Hom skuil.
32 Want wie is God buiten die HERE, en wie 'n rots buiten onse God?
33 Die God wat my sterk toevlug is, en Hy het vir my 'n weg volkomelik uitgesoek.
34 Hy maak my voete soos die van herte en laat my staan op my hoogtes.
35 Hy leer my hande om oorlog te voer, sodat my arms 'n koperboog span.
36 En U het my die skild van u uitredding gegee, en u neerbuigende goedheid het my groot gemaak.
37 U het my voetstap onder my ruim gemaak, en my enkels het nie gewankel nie.
38 Ek het my vyande agtervolg en hulle verdelg en nie teruggekom voordat ek hulle vernietig het nie.
39 Ja, ek het hulle vernietig en hulle verbrysel, sodat hulle nie weer opgestaan het nie, maar onder my voete geval het.
40 En U het my met krag omgord vir die stryd, U het my teëstanders onder my laat buk.
41 En U het my vyande vir my laat vlug; my haters, die het ek vernietig.
42 Hulle het rondgekyk, maar daar was geen verlosser nie; na die HERE, maar Hy het hulle nie geantwoord nie.
43 Toe het ek hulle vermaal soos die stof van die aarde, soos modder van die strate het ek hulle fyngemaal, hulle vertrap.
44 En U het my gered uit die getwis van my volk; U het my bewaar as 'n hoof van nasies; 'n volk wat ek nie geken het nie, het my gedien.
45 Uitlanders het al kruipende na my gekom; sodra hulle van my gehoor het, was hulle gehoorsaam aan my.
46 Uitlanders word kragteloos en kom met siddering uit hulle vestings.
47 Die HERE leef! En geloofd sy my rots, en laat verhoog wees die God wat die rots is van my heil!
48 Die God wat my die wraak gee en volke onder my neerwerp;
49 en wat my uitlei onder my vyande uit; ja, U verhef my bo my teëstanders, U bevry my van die man van geweld.
50 Daarom wil ek U loof, o HERE, onder die nasies, en tot eer van u Naam wil ek psalmsing;
51 Hy is dit wat die verlossing van sy koning groot maak en goedertierenheid bewys aan sy gesalfde, aan Dawid en aan sy nageslag tot in ewigheid.
1 And David spake unto Jehovah the words of this song in the day that Jehovah delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul: 2 and he said,
Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, even mine;
3 God, my rock, in him will I take refuge;
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 upon Jehovah, who is worthy to be praised:
So shall I be saved from mine enemies.
5 For the waves of death compassed me;
The floods of ungodliness made me afraid:
6 The cords of Sheol were round about me;
The snares of death came upon me.
7 In my distress I called upon Jehovah;
Yea, I called unto my God:
And he heard my voice out of his temple,
And my cry came into his ears.
8 Then the earth shook and trembled,
The foundations of heaven quaked
And were shaken, 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 thick darkness was under his feet.
11 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly;
Yea, he was seen upon the wings of the wind.
12 And he made darkness pavilions round about him,
Gathering of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
13 At the brightness before him
Coals of fire were kindled.
14 Jehovah thundered from heaven,
And the Most High uttered his voice.
15 And he sent out arrows, and scattered them;
Lightning, and discomfited them.
16 Then the channels of the sea appeared,
The foundations of the world were laid bare,
By the rebuke of Jehovah,
At the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
17 He sent from on high, 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 mighty for me.
19 They came upon me in the day of my calamity;
But Jehovah was my stay.
20 He brought me forth also into a large place;
He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
21 Jehovah 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 Jehovah,
And have not wickedly departed from my God.
23 For all his ordinances were before me;
And as for his statutes, I did not depart from them.
24 I was also perfect toward him;
And I kept myself from mine iniquity.
25 Therefore hath Jehovah recompensed me according to my righteousness,
According to my cleanness in his eyesight.
26 With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful;
With the perfect man thou wilt show thyself perfect;
27 With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure;
And with the perverse thou wilt show thyself froward.
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 Jehovah;
And Jehovah will lighten my darkness.
30 For by thee I run upon a troop;
By my God do I leap over a wall.
31 As for God, his way is perfect:
The word of Jehovah is tried;
He is a shield unto all them that take refuge in him.
32 For who is God, save Jehovah?
And who is a rock, save our God?
33 God is my strong fortress;
And he guideth the perfect in his way.
34 He maketh his feet like hinds’ feet,
And setteth me upon my high places.
35 He teacheth my hands to war,
So that mine arms do bend a bow of brass.
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;
And my feet have not slipped.
38 I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them;
Neither did I turn again till they were consumed.
39 And I have consumed them, and smitten them through, so that they cannot arise:
Yea, they are fallen under my feet.
40 For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle;
Thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.
41 Thou hast also made mine enemies turn their backs unto me,
That I might cut off them that hate me.
42 They looked, but there was none to save;
Even unto Jehovah, but he answered them not.
43 Then did I beat them small as the dust of the earth,
I did crush them as the mire of the streets, and did spread them abroad.
44 Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people;
Thou hast kept me to be the head of the nations:
A people whom I have not known shall serve me.
45 The foreigners shall submit themselves unto me:
As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me.
46 The foreigners shall fade away,
And shall come trembling out of their close places.
47 Jehovah liveth; And blessed be my rock;
And exalted be God, the rock of my salvation,
48 Even the God that executeth vengeance for me,
And that bringeth down peoples under me,
49 And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies:
Yea, thou liftest me up above them that rise up against me;
Thou deliverest me from the violent man.
50 Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O Jehovah, among the nations,
And will sing praises unto thy name.
51 Great deliverance giveth he to his king,
And showeth lovingkindness to his anointed,
To David and to his seed, for evermore.