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And David
spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the
day that the Lord had delivered him out of the
hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of
Saul:
02 And he said, The Lord is my rock, and my
fortress, and my deliverer;
03 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 saviour; thou savest me
from violence.
04 I will call on the Lord, who is worthy to be
praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
05 When the waves of death compassed me, the
floods of ungodly men made me afraid;
06 The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the
snares of death prevented me;
07 In my distress I called upon the Lord, and
cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of
his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.
08 Then the earth shook and trembled; the
foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he
was wroth.
09 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 did fly: and he
was seen upon the wings of the wind.
12 And he made darkness pavilions round about
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 discovered, 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, and from
them that hated me: for they were too strong for
me.
19 They prevented me in the day of my calamity:
but the Lord was my stay.
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 mine iniquity.
25 Therefore the Lord hath recompensed me
according to my righteousness; according to my
cleanness in his eye sight.
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26 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself
merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt shew
thyself upright.
27 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and
with the froward thou wilt shew thyself
unsavoury.
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 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 mine 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 did not slip.
38 I have pursued mine 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 are 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 mine
enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.
42 They looked, but there was none to save; even
unto the Lord, but he answered them not.
43 Then did I beat them as small as the dust of
the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the
street, and did 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 unto me: as
soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto
me.
46 Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be
afraid out of 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 mine 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 unto thee, O
Lord, among the heathen, and I will sing praises
unto thy name.
51 He is the tower of salvation for his king: and
sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to
his seed for evermore.
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