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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1David spoke the words of this song to the LORD on the day the LORD rescued him from the grasp of all his enemies and from the grasp of Saul. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2He said: The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3my God, my rock where I seek refuge. My shield, the horn of my salvation, my stronghold, my refuge, and my Savior, you save me from violence. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4I called to the LORD, who is worthy of praise, and I was saved from my enemies. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5For the waves of death engulfed me; the torrents of destruction terrified me. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6The ropes of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7I called to the LORD in my distress; I called to my God. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry for help reached his ears. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Then the earth shook and quaked; the foundations of the heavens trembled; they shook because he burned with anger. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Smoke rose from his nostrils, and consuming fire came from his mouth; coals were set ablaze by it. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10He bent the heavens and came down, total darkness beneath his feet. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11He rode on a cherub and flew, soaring on the wings of the wind. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12He made darkness a canopy around him, a gathering of water and thick clouds. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13From the radiance of his presence, blazing coals were ignited. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14The LORD thundered from heaven; the Most High made his voice heard. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15He shot arrows and scattered them; he hurled lightning bolts and routed them. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16The depths of the sea became visible, the foundations of the world were exposed at the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17He reached down from on high and took hold of me; he pulled me out of deep water. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18He rescued me from my powerful enemy and from those who hated me, for they were too strong for me. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19They confronted me in the day of my calamity, but the LORD was my support. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20He brought me out to a spacious place; he rescued me because he delighted in me. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; he repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22For I have kept the ways of the LORD and have not turned from my God to wickedness. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Indeed, I let all his ordinances guide me and have not disregarded his statutes. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24I was blameless before him and kept myself from my iniquity. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25So the LORD repaid me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in his sight. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26With the faithful you prove yourself faithful, with the blameless you prove yourself blameless, |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27with the pure you prove yourself pure; but with the crooked you prove yourself shrewd. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28You rescue an oppressed people, but your eyes are set against the proud--you humble them. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29LORD, you are my lamp; the LORD illuminates my darkness. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30With you I can attack a barricade, and with my God I can leap over a wall. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31God--his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is pure. He is a shield to all who take refuge in him. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32For who is God besides the LORD? And who is a rock? Only our God. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33God is my strong refuge; he makes my way perfect. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34He makes my feet like the feet of a deer and sets me securely on the heights. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35He trains my hands for war; my arms can bend a bow of bronze. |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36You have given me the shield of your salvation; your help exalts me. |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37You make a spacious place beneath me for my steps, and my ankles do not give way. |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38I pursue my enemies and destroy them; I do not turn back until they are wiped out. |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39I wipe them out and crush them, and they do not rise; they fall beneath my feet. |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40You have clothed me with strength for battle; you subdue my adversaries beneath me. |
| 41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41You have made my enemies retreat before me; I annihilate those who hate me. |
| 42[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 42They look, but there is no one to save them--they look to the LORD, but he does not answer them. |
| 43[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 43I pulverize them like dust of the earth; I crush them and trample them like mud in the streets. |
| 44[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 44You have freed me from the feuds among my people; you have preserved me as head of nations; a people I had not known serve me. |
| 45[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 45Foreigners submit to me cringing; as soon as they hear, they obey me. |
| 46[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 46Foreigners lose heart and come trembling from their fortifications. |
| 47[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 47The LORD lives--blessed be my rock! God, the rock of my salvation, is exalted. |
| 48[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 48God--he grants me vengeance and casts down peoples under me. |
| 49[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 49He frees me from my enemies. You exalt me above my adversaries; you rescue me from violent men. |
| 50[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 50Therefore I will give thanks to you among the nations, LORD; I will sing praises about your name. |
| 51[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 51He is a tower of salvation for his king; he shows loyalty to his anointed, to David and his descendants forever. |
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