⁰To the choirmaster. Of the slave of Yahweh, of David, who spoke to Yahweh the words of this song on the day Yahweh delivered him from the palm of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.

¹He said: I have compassion for you, Yahweh, my strength.

²Yahweh is my crag and my stronghold and my deliverer, my God, my rock in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my rescue, my secure height.

³I call out to Yahweh, the one to be praised, and from my enemies I am saved.

⁴The ropes of death surrounded me, and torrents of ruin terrified me.

⁵The ropes of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of death met me.

⁶In my distress I called to Yahweh, and to my God I cried for help; from his temple he heard my voice, and my cry for help came before him, into his ears.

⁷The land shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains trembled and rocked back and forth, for he blazed with anger.

⁸Smoke went up in his nostril, and fire from his mouth devoured; coals burned from him.

⁹He bent the skies and came down, with a thick dark cloud under his feet.

¹⁰He rode on a cherub and flew; he swooped on the wings of the wind.

¹¹He made darkness his hiding place, his shelter around him: the darkness of the waters, dense clouds of vapor.

¹²From the brightness before him his dark clouds passed over, hail and coals of fire.

¹³Yahweh thundered in the skies, and the Most High gave forth his sound—hail and coals of fire.

¹⁴He sent out his arrows and scattered them; he shot lightning flashes and threw them into confusion.

¹⁵Then the channels of the waters were seen, the foundations of the world were uncovered, from your rebuke, Yahweh, from the breath of the breath of your nostril.

¹⁶He sent from the height and took hold of me; he drew me out of the great waters.

¹⁷He rescued me from my fierce enemy and from those who hate me, for they were too strong for me.

¹⁸They came to meet me in the day of my calamity, but Yahweh became my support.

¹⁹He brought me out into a roomy place; he pulled me free, for he delighted in me.

²⁰Yahweh dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he paid me back.

²¹For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and I have not wickedly left my God.

²²For all his justice was before me, and I did not put his statutes away from me.

²³I was blameless with him, and I kept myself from my guilt.

²⁴Yahweh paid me back according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands before his eyes.

²⁵With the faithful you show yourself faithful; with a blameless man you show yourself whole.

²⁶With one who purifies himself you show yourself pure; with the twisted you show yourself twisted.

²⁷For you save a poor people, but high eyes you bring low.

²⁸For you cause my lamp to shine; Yahweh my God lights up my darkness.

²⁹For with you I rush at a raiding band, and with my God I leap over a wall.

³⁰God—his way is blameless; the word of Yahweh is refined; he is a shield to all who take refuge in him.

³¹For who is a god apart from Yahweh, and who is a rock except our God?

³²The God who girds me with strength and has made my way blameless,

³³making my feet like does, and setting me to stand on my high places.

³⁴He teaches my hands for war, and my arms press down a bow of bronze.

³⁵You gave me the shield of your salvation, and your right hand sustains me, and your gentleness makes me great.

³⁶You make room for my step beneath me, and my ankles have not slipped.

³⁷I chase my enemies and overtake them, and I do not return until I have finished them.

³⁸I shatter them, and they cannot rise; they fall beneath my feet.

³⁹You girded me with strength for the battle; you bow down beneath me those who rose against me.

⁴⁰And my enemies, you gave me the back of their necks, and those who hate me, I put an end to them.

⁴¹They cry for help, but there is no deliverer; to Yahweh, and he does not answer them.

⁴²And I grind them like dust on the face of the wind; like the mud of the streets I pour them out.

⁴³You deliver me from the strife of a people; you set me at the head of nations; a people I have not known serve me.

⁴⁴At the hearing of the ear they obey me; the sons of the foreigner cringe before me.

⁴⁵The sons of the foreigner wither, and they come trembling out of their strongholds.

⁴⁶Yahweh lives, and blessed be my rock, and high be the God of my salvation.

⁴⁷The God who gives me vengeances, and subdues peoples beneath me,

⁴⁸who delivers me from my enemies; you also lift me high above those who rise against me; from the man of violence you rescue me.

⁴⁹Therefore I give thanks to you among the nations, Yahweh, and to your name I sing praises.

⁵⁰He makes great the deliverances of his king and does loyal love for his anointed, for David and for his seed forever.