1 I love you, Yahweh, my strength.
2 Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer;
my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge;
my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
3 I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised;
and I am saved from my enemies.
4 The cords of death surrounded me.
The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
5 The cords of Sheol were around me.
The snares of death came on me.
6 In my distress I called on Yahweh,
and cried to my God.
He heard my voice out of his temple.
My cry before him came into his ears.
7 Then the earth shook and trembled.
The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken,
because he was angry.
8 Smoke went out of his nostrils.
Consuming fire came out of his mouth.
Coals were kindled by it.
9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down.
Thick darkness was under his feet.
10 He rode on a cherub, and flew.
Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.
11 He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him,
darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
12 At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed,
hailstones and coals of fire.
13 Yahweh also thundered in the sky.
The Most High uttered his voice:
hailstones and coals of fire.
14 He sent out his arrows, and scattered them.
He routed them with great lightning bolts.
15 Then the channels of waters appeared.
The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh,
at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
16 He sent from on high.
He took me.
He drew me out of many waters.
17 He delivered me from my strong enemy,
from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
18 They came on me in the day of my calamity,
but Yahweh was my support.
19 He brought me out also into a large place.
He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
20 Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness.
According to the cleanness of my hands, he has recompensed me.
21 For I have kept the ways of Yahweh,
and have not wickedly departed from my God.
22 For all his ordinances were before me.
I didn’t put away his statutes from me.
23 I was also blameless with him.
I kept myself from my iniquity.
24 Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness,
according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
25 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful.
With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.
26 With the pure, you will show yourself pure.
With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
27 For you will save the afflicted people,
but the arrogant eyes you will bring down.
28 For you will light my lamp, Yahweh.
My God will light up my darkness.
29 For by you, I advance through a troop.
By my God, I leap over a wall.
30 As for God, his way is perfect.
Yahweh’s word is tried.
He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
31 For who is God, except Yahweh?
Who is a rock, besides our God,
32 the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?
33 He makes my feet like deer’s feet,
and sets me on my high places.
34 He teaches my hands to war,
so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.
35 You have also given me the shield of your salvation.
Your right hand sustains me.
Your gentleness has made me great.
36 You have enlarged my steps under me,
My feet have not slipped.
37 I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them.
I won’t turn away until they are consumed.
38 I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise.
They shall fall under my feet.
39 For you have armed me with strength to the battle.
You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
40 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me,
that I might cut off those who hate me.
41 They cried, but there was no one to save;
even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.
42 Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind.
I cast them out as the mire of the streets.
43 You have delivered me from the strivings of the people.
You have made me the head of the nations.
A people whom I have not known shall serve me.
44 As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me.
The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.
45 The foreigners shall fade away,
and shall come trembling out of their strongholds.
46 Yahweh lives! Blessed be my rock.
Exalted be the God of my salvation,
47 even the God who executes vengeance for me,
and subdues peoples under me.
48 He rescues me from my enemies.
Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me.
You deliver me from the violent man.
49 Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations,
and will sing praises to your name.
50 He gives great deliverance to his king,
and shows loving kindness to his anointed,
to David and to his offspring, forever more.
1 Vir die musiekleier. 'n Psalm van Dawid, die kneg van die HERE, wat die woorde van hierdie lied tot die HERE gespreek het 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: Ek het U hartlik lief, HERE, my sterkte.
3 Die HERE is my rots en my bergvesting en my redder; my God, my rots by wie ek skuil; my skild en die horing van my heil, my rotsvesting.
4 Ek roep die HERE aan wat lofwaardig is, en van my vyande word ek verlos.
5 Bande van die dood het my omring, en strome van onheil het my oorval.
6 Bande van die doderyk was rondom my; strikke van die dood het my teëgekom.
7 Toe ek benoud was, het ek die HERE aangeroep, en ek het tot my God geroep om hulp; Hy het my stem uit sy paleis gehoor, en my hulpgeroep voor sy aangesig het in sy ore gekom.
8 Toe het die aarde geskud en gebewe; die fondamente van die berge 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 donkerheid was onder sy voete.
11 En Hy het op 'n g,rub gery en gevlieg; ja, Hy het gesweef op die vleuels van die wind.
12 Duisternis het Hy sy skuilplek gemaak, sy hut rondom Hom: duisternis van waters, diktes van wolke.
13 Deur die glans voor Hom het sy wolke verbygetrek, hael en gloeiende kole.
14 En die HERE het in die hemel gedonder, en die Allerhoogste het sy stem laat hoor; hael en gloeiende kole.
15 En Hy het sy pyle uitgestuur en hulle verstrooi; ja, sy bliksems in menigte, en Hy het hulle verwar.
16 En die beddings van die waters het sigbaar geword, en die fondamente van die wêreld is blootgelê vanweë u dreiging, o HERE, vanweë die geblaas van die wind van u neus.
17 Hy het uit die hoogte sy hand uitgestrek, Hy het my gegryp, Hy het my uit groot waters getrek.
18 Hy het my verlos van my magtige vyand en 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; Hy het my vergelde na die reinheid van my hande.
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 het ek nie van my verwyder nie.
24 Maar ek was opreg by Hom, en ek was op my hoede vir my ongeregtigheid.
25 So het die HERE my dan vergelde na my geregtigheid, na die reinheid van my hande, 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 Want U verlos die verdrukte volk; maar U verneder die oë wat hoog is.
29 Want U laat my lamp skyn; die HERE my God laat my duisternis opklaar.
30 Want met U loop ek 'n bende storm, en 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 is 'n rots behalwe onse God?
33 God is dit wat my met krag omgord en my weg volkome maak.
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 Ook het U my die skild van u uitredding gegee, en u regterhand het my ondersteun, en u neerbuigende goedheid het my groot gemaak.
37 U het my voetstap ruim gemaak onder my, en my enkels het nie gewankel nie.
38 Ek het my vyande agtervolg en hulle ingehaal, en ek het nie teruggekom voordat ek hulle vernietig het nie.
39 Ek het hulle verbrysel, sodat hulle nie kon opstaan nie; hulle het geval onder my voete.
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; en my haters, die het ek vernietig.
42 Hulle het geroep om hulp, maar daar was geen verlosser nie -- tot die HERE, maar Hy het hulle nie geantwoord nie.
43 Toe het ek hulle vermaal soos stof voor die wind; ek het hulle uitgegooi soos modder van die strate.
44 U het my gered uit die getwis van die volk; U het my 'n hoof gemaak van nasies; 'n volk wat ek nie geken het nie, het my gedien.
45 Sodra hulle van my gehoor het, was hulle my gehoorsaam, uitlanders het kruipende na my gekom.
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 van my heil!
48 Die God wat my die wraak gee en volke aan my onderwerp;
49 wat my red van my vyande; 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. [ (Psalms 18:51) Hy wat die verlossinge van sy koning groot maak en goedertierenheid bewys aan sy gesalfde, aan Dawid en aan sy nageslag tot in ewigheid. ]