1I will love you, O LORD, my strength.
2The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer. He is my God, my strength; I will trust in him. He is my shield, the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
3I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised. So I will be saved from my enemies.
4The sorrows of death closed around me. The floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
5The sorrows of hell surrounded me. The traps of death came before me.
6In my trouble I called on the LORD, and cried out to my God. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry came before him, right into his ears.
7Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was angry.
8Smoke went up from his nostrils, and fire came out of his mouth and burned things up. Coals were set on fire by it.
9He bent the heavens low and came down, and darkness was under his feet.
10He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he flew on the wings of the wind.
11He made darkness his hiding place. His tent around him was dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
12At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed by, with hail stones and coals of fire.
13The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High spoke out loud, with hail stones and coals of fire.
14Yes, he sent out his arrows and scattered them. He shot out lightnings and threw them into confusion.
15Then the channels of the waters could be seen, and the foundations of the world were laid bare, at your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
16He reached down from above and took hold of me. He drew me out of deep waters.
17He rescued me from my strong enemy, and from those who hated me, for they were too strong for me.
18They came against me on the day of my trouble, but the LORD was my support.
19He brought me out into a wide place. He rescued me, because he delighted in me.
20The LORD rewarded me for my righteousness. He paid me back for the cleanness of my hands.
21For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly turned away from my God.
22For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put his laws away from me.
23I was also blameless before him, and I kept myself from my sin.
24So the LORD paid me back for my righteousness, for the cleanness of my hands in his sight.
25To the merciful you show yourself merciful. To an upright man you show yourself upright.
26To the pure you show yourself pure. To the crooked you show yourself hard.
27For you will save the suffering people, but you will bring down proud looks.
28For you will light my lamp. The LORD my God will make my darkness bright.
29By you I have run through a troop of soldiers. By my God I have jumped over a wall.
30As for God, his way is perfect. The word of the LORD has been tested. He is a shield to all who trust in him.
31For who is God except the LORD? Or who is a rock except our God?
32It is God who wraps me with strength, and makes my way perfect.
33He makes my feet like the feet of deer, and sets me on my high places.
34He teaches my hands to fight, so that my arms can bend a bow of steel.
35You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand has held me up, and your gentleness has made me great.
36You have made a wide path for my steps, so that my feet did not slip.
37I have chased my enemies and caught them. I did not turn back until they were destroyed.
38I have wounded them so that they could not get up. They have fallen under my feet.
39For you have wrapped me with strength for the battle. You have put down under me those who rose up against me.
40You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, so that I could destroy those who hate me.
41They cried out, but there was no one to save them. They cried to the LORD, but he did not answer them.
42Then I beat them as fine as dust before the wind. I threw them out like mud in the streets.
43You have rescued me from the quarrels of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people I did not know will serve me.
44As soon as they hear of me, they will obey me. Strangers will bow down to me.
45The strangers will fade away, and come trembling out of their hiding places.
46The LORD lives, and blessed be my rock. Let the God of my salvation be lifted high.
47It is God who avenges me, and puts the peoples under me.
48He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise against me. You have saved me from the violent man.
49So I will give thanks to you, O LORD, among the nations, and sing praises to your name.
50He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows mercy to his anointed one, to David and to his descendants for ever.