¹ And David spoke the words of this song unto the LORD in the day [that] the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies and out of the hand of Saul.

² And he said, The LORD [is] my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer.

³ God is my Strong One; in him will I trust: [he is] my shield and the horn of my saving health; my defence and my refuge; my saviour, who shall save me from violence.

⁴ I will call on the LORD, [who is] worthy to be praised; so shall I be saved from my enemies.

⁵ When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of Belial made me afraid;

⁶ [when] the cords of Sheol compassed me about; the snares of death came before me;

⁷ in my distress I called upon the LORD and cried to my God, who heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry [entered] into his ears.

⁸ Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of the heavens were moved and shook because he was wroth.

⁹ Smoke went up from his nostrils, and fire devoured out of his mouth; coals were kindled by it.

¹⁰ And he lowered the heavens and came down, and darkness [was] under his feet.

¹¹ And he rode upon a cherub and flew; and he appeared upon the wings of the wind.

¹² He placed darkness like tabernacles round about him, dark waters [and] thick clouds of the skies.

¹³ From the brightness of his presence, coals of fire were kindled.

¹⁴ The LORD thundered from the heavens, and the most High uttered his voice;

¹⁵ he sent out arrows and scattered them; he lightninged, and consumed them.

¹⁶ Then the springs of the sea appeared and the foundations of the world were uncovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

¹⁷ He extended [his hand] from above, he took me; he drew me out of the impetuous waters;

¹⁸ he delivered me from strong enemies, from those that hated me, who were stronger than I.

¹⁹ They came upon me unawares in the day of my calamity, but the LORD was my stay.

²⁰ He brought me forth into a large place; he delivered me, because he had put his will in me.

²¹ The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he has recompensed me.

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

²³ For I have all his ordinances before me and am attentive to his statutes; I will not depart from them.

²⁴ And I was perfect before him and have kept myself from my iniquity.

²⁵ Therefore, the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness before his eyes.

²⁶ With the merciful thou art good, [and] with the perfect thou art upright.

²⁷ With the pure thou art pure, and with the perverse thou art an adversary.

²⁸ Thou wilt save the poor [in spirit]; but thine eyes [are] upon the haughty [that] thou may bring [them] down.

²⁹ For thou [art] my lamp, O LORD, and the LORD gives light unto my darkness.

³⁰ For in thee I have run through a troop; with my God I have gone over the walls.

³¹ [As for] God, his way [is] perfect; the word of the LORD [is] purified; he [is] a shield to all those that trust in him.

³² For what God [is there] except the LORD? Or who [is] a Strong One, except our God?

³³ God [is] he who strengthens me with virtue; he who clears my way;

³⁴ he who makes my feet like hinds' [feet], and he who sets me upon my high places;

³⁵ he who trains my hands for war and [causes] my arms to break the bow of bronze.

³⁶ Thou hast also given me the shield of thy saving health, and thy meekness has multiplied me.

³⁷ Thou hast enlarged my steps under me so that my knees did not shake.

³⁸ I have pursued my enemies and destroyed them and did not return until I had consumed them.

³⁹ And I consumed them and wounded them, and they did not arise; they are fallen under my feet.

⁴⁰ For thou hast girded me with strength for the battle; thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.

⁴¹ Thou hast given me the necks of my enemies, of those that hate me, that I might cut them off.

⁴² They looked, but [there was] no one to save them; [even] unto the LORD, but he did not answer them.

⁴³ Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth; I stamped them as the mire of the street [and] spread them abroad.

⁴⁴ Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of peoples; thou hast kept me [to be] head of the Gentiles; peoples [whom] I did not know have served me.

⁴⁵ The strangers trembled [before] my [command]; as soon as they heard, they obeyed me.

⁴⁶ The strangers withered away and trembled in their close places.

⁴⁷ The LORD lives, and blessed [be] my rock, and exalted be the God [who is] the rock of my salvation.

⁴⁸ The God who has given me revenge and who subjects the peoples under me,

⁴⁹ who brings me forth from among my enemies; thou hast lifted me up on high from among those that rose up against me; thou hast delivered me from the man of violence.

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

⁵¹ He who makes great the saving health of his king and shows mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for ever.: