¹David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song on the day Yahweh delivered him from the palm of all his enemies and from the palm of Saul.

²And he said, "Yahweh is my crag and my stronghold and my deliverer for me;

³the God of my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield and the horn of my salvation, my secure height and my place of escape; my deliverer, you deliver me from violence.

⁴I call out to Yahweh, the one to be praised, and from my enemies I am saved.

⁵For the breakers of death surrounded me; the torrents of worthlessness overwhelmed me.

⁶The cords of Sheol circled me; the snares of death confronted me.

⁷When I was in a tight place, I called out to Yahweh, and to my God I called out; and from his temple he heard my voice, and my cry for help was in his ears.

⁸Then the land shook and quaked; the foundations of the skies trembled and reeled, for he burned with anger.

⁹Smoke went up in his nostril, and fire from his mouth devoured; coals burned out of him.

¹⁰He bent the skies and came down, and thick dark cloud was under his feet.

¹¹He rode on a cherub and flew; he was seen on the wings of the wind.

¹²He set darkness around him as shelters, a mass of waters, the dark clouds of the clouds.

¹³From the brightness in front of him, coals of fire burned.

¹⁴Yahweh thundered from the skies, and the Most High gave his voice.

¹⁵He sent arrows and scattered them, lightning, and threw them into confusion.

¹⁶Then the channels of the sea were seen, the foundations of the world were uncovered, at the rebuke of Yahweh, at the breathing of the breath of his nostril.

¹⁷He stretched out from the height, he took hold of me, he drew me out of great waters.

¹⁸He rescued me from my strong enemy, from those who hate me, for they were too strong for me.

¹⁹They confronted me in the day of my calamity, but Yahweh was a support for me.

²⁰He brought me out to a roomy place; he pulled me free, for he delighted in me.

²¹Yahweh dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he repaid me.

²²For I kept the ways of Yahweh, and I have not acted wickedly away from my God.

²³For all his justice was before me, and from his statutes I did not turn aside.

²⁴I was blameless toward him, and I kept myself from my guilt.

²⁵And Yahweh repaid me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness before his eyes.

²⁶With the kind you show yourself kind; with the mighty man who is blameless you show yourself blameless.

²⁷With one who purifies himself you show yourself pure, and with the perverse you show yourself twisted.

²⁸And a poor people you save, and your eyes are on the high — you bring them low.

²⁹For you are my lamp, Yahweh, and Yahweh lights my darkness.

³⁰For by you I run at a marauding band, by my God I leap over a wall.

³¹God — his way is blameless; the word of Yahweh is refined; he is a shield for all who take refuge in him.

³²For who is God except Yahweh, and who is a rock except our God?

³³God is my stronghold of strength, and he frees my way, blameless.

³⁴He makes my feet like those of does, and on my high places he makes me stand.

³⁵He teaches my hands for war, and my arms press down a bow of bronze.

³⁶You gave me the shield of your salvation, and your humility makes me great.

³⁷You widened my steps under me, and my ankles did not slip.

³⁸I pursued my enemies and destroyed them, and I did not turn back until they were finished.

³⁹I finished them off, and I shattered them, and they could not rise; they fell beneath my feet.

⁴⁰You girded me with strength for the war; you made those who rose against me crouch beneath me.

⁴¹As for my enemies, you made them turn their backs to me; and those who hate me, I put an end to them.

⁴²They gazed about, but there was no deliverer; they gazed to Yahweh, but he did not answer them.

⁴³I pounded them fine like the dust of the land; like the mud of the streets, I crushed them, I stamped them out.

⁴⁴You rescued me from the strife of my people; you kept me as the head of nations; a people I did not know serve me.

⁴⁵The sons of foreigners cringe to me; at the hearing of the ear they obey me.

⁴⁶The sons of foreigners wither, and gird themselves out of their strongholds.

⁴⁷Yahweh lives, and blessed is my boulder, and let the God of the rock of my salvation be high;

⁴⁸the God who gives vengeance to me, and brings down peoples under me;

⁴⁹who brings me out from my enemies, and from those who rise against me you lift me high; from the man of violence you rescue me.

⁵⁰Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations, and to your name I will make music.

⁵¹A tower of deliverances of his king, who deals loyal love to his anointed, to David and to his seed forever.