1For the end, a Psalm of David the servant of the Lord; the words which he spoke to the Lord, even the words of this Song, in the day in which the Lord delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul: and he said:

2I will love thee, O Lord, my strength.

3The Lord is my firm support, and my refuge, and my deliverer; my God is my helper, I will hope in him; he is my defender, and the horn of my salvation, and my helper.

4I will call upon the Lord with praises, and I shall be saved from mine enemies.

5The pangs of death compassed me, and the torrents of ungodliness troubled me exceedingly.

6The pangs of hell came round about me: the snares of death prevented me.

7And when I was afflicted I called upon the Lord, and cried to my God: he heard my voice out of his holy temple, and my cry shall enter before him, even into his ears.

8Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains were disturbed, and were shaken, because God was angry with them.

9There went up a smoke in his wrath, and fire burst into a flame at his presence: coals were kindled at it.

10And he bowed the heaven, and came down: and thick darkness was under his feet.

11And he mounted on cherubs and flew: he flew on the wings of winds.

12And he made darkness his secret place: round about him was his tabernacle, even dark water in the clouds of the air.

13At the brightness before him the clouds passed, hail and coals of fire.

14The Lord also thundered from heaven, and the Highest uttered his voice.

15And he sent forth his weapons, and scattered them; and multiplied lightnings, and routed them.

16And the springs of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed, at thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blasting of the breath of thy wrath.

17He sent from on high and took me, he drew me to himself out of many waters.

18He will deliver me from my mighty enemies, and from them that hate me; for they are stronger than I.

19They prevented me in the day of mine affliction: but the Lord was my stay against them.

20And he brought me out into a wide place: he will deliver me, because he has pleasure in me.

21And the Lord will recompense me according to my righteousness; even according to the purity of my hands will he recompense me.

22For I have kept the ways of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God.

23For all his judgments were before me, and his ordinances departed not from me.

24And I shall be blameless with him, and shall keep myself from mine iniquity.

25And the Lord shall recompense me according to my righteousness, and according to the purity of my hands before his eyes.

26With the holy thou wilt be holy; and with the innocent man thou wilt be innocent.

27And with the excellent man thou wilt be excellent; and with the perverse thou wilt shew frowardness.

28For thou wilt save the lowly people, and wilt humble the eyes of the proud.

29For thou, O Lord, wilt light my lamp: my God, thou wilt lighten my darkness.

30For by thee shall I be delivered from a troop; and by my God I will pass over a wall.

31As for my God, his way is perfect: the oracles of the Lord are tried in the fire; he is a protector of all them that hope in him.

32For who is God but the Lord? and who is a God except our God?

33It is God that girds me with strength, and has made my way blameless:

34who strengthens my feet as hart's feet, and sets me upon high places.

35He instructs my hands for war; and thou hast made my arms as a brazen bow.

36And thou hast made me ³¹secure in my salvation: and thy right hand has helped me, and thy correction has upheld me to the end; yea, thy correction itself shall instruct me.

37Thou hast made room for my goings under me, and my footsteps did not fail.

38I will pursue mine enemies, and overtake them; and I will not turn back until they are consumed.

39I will dash them to pieces and they shall not be able to stand: they shall fall under my feet.

40For thou hast girded me with strength for war: thou hast beaten down under me all that rose up against me.

41And thou hast made mine enemies turn their backs before me; and thou hast destroyed them that hated me.

42They cried, but there was no deliverer: even to the Lord, but he hearkened not to them.

43I will grind them as the mud of the streets: and I will beat them small as dust before the wind.

44Deliver me from the gainsayings of the people: thou shalt make me head of the Gentiles: a people whom I knew not served me,

45at the hearing of the ear they obeyed me: the strange children ³²lied to me.

46The strange children waxed old, and fell away from their paths through lameness.

47The Lord lives; and blessed be my God; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.

48It is God that avenges me, and has subdued the nations under me;

49my deliverer from angry enemies: thou shalt set me on high ³³above them that rise up against me: thou shalt deliver me from the unrighteous man.

50Therefore will I confess to thee, O Lord, among the Gentiles, and sing to thy name.

51God magnifies the deliverances of his king; and deals mercifully with David his anointed, and his seed, for ever.