1 I love you, Lord, my strength.

2 The Lord is my rock,

my fortress, and my deliverer,  *

my God, my rock where I seek refuge,

my shield  * and the horn of my salvation,  *

my stronghold.

3 I called to the Lord, who is worthy of praise,  *

and I was saved from my enemies.  *

4 The ropes of death were wrapped around me;

the torrents of destruction terrified me.  *

5 The ropes of Sheol entangled me;

the snares of death confronted me.  *

6 I called to the Lord in my distress,

and I cried to my God for help.

From his temple he heard my voice,  *

and my cry to him reached his ears.  *

7 Then the earth shook and quaked;

the foundations of the mountains trembled;  *

they shook because he burned with anger.

8 Smoke rose from his nostrils,

and consuming fire came from his mouth;

coals were set ablaze by it.  *,*

9 He bent the heavens and came down,  *

total darkness beneath his feet.

10 He rode on a cherub and flew,

soaring on the wings of the wind.  *

11 He made darkness his hiding place,

dark storm clouds his canopy around him.  *

12 From the radiance of his presence,  *

his clouds swept onward with hail and blazing coals.

13 The Lord thundered from  *  heaven;

the Most High made his voice heard.  *,*

14 He shot his arrows and scattered them;

he hurled  * lightning bolts and routed them.  *

15 The depths of the sea became visible,

the foundations of the world were exposed,

at your rebuke, Lord,

at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.  *

16 He reached down from on high

and took hold of me;

he pulled me out of deep water.  *

17 He rescued me from my powerful enemy

and from those who hated me,

for they were too strong for me.  *

18 They confronted me in the day of my calamity,

but the Lord was my support.  *

19 He brought me out to a spacious place;  *

he rescued me because he delighted in me.  *

20 The Lord rewarded me

according to my righteousness;  *

he repaid me

according to the cleanness of my hands.  *

21 For I have kept the ways of the  Lord

and have not turned from my God to wickedness.  *

22 Indeed, I let all his ordinances guide me  *

and have not disregarded his statutes.  *

23 I was blameless toward him  *

and kept myself from my iniquity.

24 So the Lord repaid me

according to my righteousness,  *

according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.  *

25 With the faithful

you prove yourself faithful,

with the blameless

you prove yourself blameless,

26 with the pure

you prove yourself pure,

but with the crooked

you prove yourself shrewd.  *

27 For you rescue an oppressed people,  *

but you humble those with haughty eyes.  *

28 Lord, you light my lamp;

my God illuminates my darkness.  *

29 With you I can attack a barricade,  *

and with my God I can leap over a wall.  *

30 God — his way is perfect;  *

the word of the Lord is pure.  *

He is a shield to all who take refuge in him.  *

31 For who is God besides the  Lord?  *

And who is a rock? Only our God.  *

32 God — he clothes me with strength  *

and makes my way perfect.

33 He makes my feet like the feet of a deer  *

and sets me securely on the heights.  *,*

34 He trains my hands for war;  *

my arms can bend a bow of bronze.  *

35 You have given me the shield of your salvation;

your right hand upholds me,  *

and your humility exalts me.

36 You make a spacious place beneath me for my steps,  *

and my ankles do not give way.  *

37 I pursue my enemies and overtake them;

I do not turn back until they are wiped out.  *

38 I crush them, and they cannot get up;

they fall beneath my feet.  *

39 You have clothed me with strength for battle;  *

you subdue my adversaries beneath me.  *

40 You have made my enemies retreat before me;  *,*

I annihilate those who hate me.  *

41 They cry for help, but there is no one to save them  *  —

they cry to the Lord, but he does not answer them.  *

42 I pulverize them like dust before the wind;  *

I trample them  * like mud in the streets.  *

43 You have freed me from the feuds among the people;

you have appointed me the head of nations;  *

a people I had not known serve me.  *

44 Foreigners submit to me cringing;

as soon as they hear they obey me.  *

45 Foreigners lose heart

and come trembling from their fortifications.  *

46 The Lord lives — blessed be my rock!

The God of my salvation is exalted.  *

47 God — he grants me vengeance  *

and subdues peoples under me.  *

48 He frees me from my enemies.

You exalt me above my adversaries;

you rescue me from violent men.  *

49 Therefore I will give thanks to you among the nations,  Lord;

I will sing praises about your name.  *

50 He gives great victories to his king;  *

he shows loyalty to his anointed,

to David and his descendants forever.  *