1 He said: "I love you, O LORD, my strength.
2 The LORD is my crag and my stronghold and the one who rescues me; my God, my rock, in whom I seek shelter; my shield and the horn of my salvation, my high retreat.
3 To the LORD, who is to be praised, I call, and from my enemies I am saved.
4 The ropes of death were wound about me; floods of destruction filled me with terror.
5 The ropes of Sheol encircled me; the traps of death came to meet me.
6 In my trouble I called on the LORD and cried out to my God for help; he heard my voice from his temple, and my cry came before him, into his ears.
7 Then the earth heaved and shook; the foundations of the mountains quivered and rocked, because his anger burned.
8 Smoke rose from his nostrils, and fire from his mouth devoured; coals were kindled by it.
9 He bent the heavens and descended, with dense darkness beneath his feet.
10 He mounted a cherub and flew; he swooped on the wings of the wind.
11 He made darkness his hiding place, his shelter around him: darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
12 From the radiance before him his clouds passed through, hail and fiery coals.
13 The LORD thundered in the heavens; the Most High gave forth his voice, hail and fiery coals.
14 He let fly his arrows and scattered them; he hurled lightning bolts in abundance and threw them into confusion.
15 Then the beds of the waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were uncovered at your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the wind of your nostrils.
16 He reached down from on high and took hold of me; he pulled me out of great waters.
17 He rescued me from my powerful enemy and from those who hated me, for they were stronger than I.
18 They came against me on the day of my disaster, but the LORD became my support.
19 He brought me out into a spacious place; he set me free, because he took pleasure in me.
20 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; he paid me back according to the purity of my hands.
21 For I have guarded the ways of the LORD and have not acted wickedly against my God.
22 For all his ordinances were in front of me, and I did not set his statutes aside.
23 I was blameless with him, and I guarded myself from my own iniquity.
24 And so the LORD repaid me for my righteousness, for the purity of my hands before his eyes.
25 With the faithful you prove faithful; with a blameless man you prove blameless;
26 with the pure you prove pure; but with the crooked you prove shrewd.
27 For you rescue a lowly people, but eyes that are lifted high you humble.
28 For you make my lamp shine; the LORD my God lights up my darkness.
29 For with you I can rush a troop, and with my God I can spring over a wall.
30 As for God, his way is blameless; the word of the LORD is refined; he is a shield for all who seek refuge in him.
31 For who is God apart from the LORD? And who is a rock besides our God?
32 God is the one who belts strength around me and makes my way blameless,
33 who makes my feet like those of the does and gives me a footing on my heights,
34 who teaches my hands for battle, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.
35 You have given me your shield of salvation; your right hand has supported me, and your gentleness makes me great.
36 You give my steps wide room under me, and my ankles have not slipped.
37 I chased my enemies and caught them, and did not turn back until I had finished them off.
38 I shattered them so that they could not rise; they fell beneath my feet.
39 You armed me with strength for the battle; you made my assailants sink down under me.
40 You made my enemies show me their backs, and I destroyed those who hated me.
41 They called for help, but no one saved them; they called to the LORD, but he gave them no answer.
42 I ground them fine as dust on the face of the wind; like mud in the streets I poured them out.
43 You set me free from the quarrels of the people; you appointed me head of the nations; a people I did not know serve me.
44 At the mere report they obey me; sons of foreigners cringe before me.
45 Sons of foreigners wither and come out trembling from their fortresses.
46 The LORD is alive! Blessed be my rock, and may the God of my salvation be exalted,
47 the God who grants me vengeance and brings down peoples beneath me,
48 who rescues me from my enemies; indeed, you raise me above my assailants; from the violent man you deliver me.
49 For this I will praise you among the nations, O LORD, and make music to your name.
50 He makes great the victories of his king and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his seed forever."