| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1For the choir director. Of the servant of the LORD, David, who spoke the words of this song to the LORD on the day the LORD rescued him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love You, LORD, my strength. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my mountain where I seek refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3I called to the LORD, who is worthy of praise, and I was saved from my enemies. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4The ropes of death were wrapped around me; the torrents of destruction terrified me. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5The ropes of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6I called to the LORD in my distress, and I cried to my God for help. From His temple He heard my voice, and my cry to Him reached His ears. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Then the earth shook and quaked; the foundations of the mountains trembled; they shook because He burned with anger. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Smoke rose from His nostrils, and consuming fire came from His mouth; coals were set ablaze by it. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9He parted the heavens and came down, a dark cloud beneath His feet. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10He rode on a cherub and flew, soaring on the wings of the wind. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11He made darkness His hiding place, dark storm clouds His canopy around Him. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12From the radiance of His presence, His clouds swept onward with hail and blazing coals. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13The LORD thundered from heaven; the Most High projected His voice. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14He shot His arrows and scattered them; He hurled lightning bolts and routed them. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The depths of the sea became visible, the foundations of the world were exposed, at Your rebuke, LORD, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16He reached down from heaven and took hold of me; He pulled me out of deep waters. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17He rescued me from my powerful enemy and from those who hated me, for they were too strong for me. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18They confronted me in the day of my distress, but the LORD was my support. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19He brought me out to a spacious place; He rescued me because He delighted in me. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; He repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21For I have kept the ways of the LORD and have not turned from my God to wickedness. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Indeed, I have kept all His ordinances in mind and have not disregarded His statutes. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23I was blameless toward Him and kept myself from sinning. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24So the LORD repaid me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in His sight. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25With the faithful You prove Yourself faithful; with the blameless man You prove Yourself blameless; |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26with the pure You prove Yourself pure, but with the crooked You prove Yourself shrewd. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27For You rescue an afflicted people, but You humble those with haughty eyes. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28 LORD, You light my lamp; my God illuminates my darkness. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29With You I can attack a barrier, and with my God I can leap over a wall. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30God--His way is perfect; the word of the LORD is pure. He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31For who is God besides Yahweh? And who is a rock? Only our God. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32God--He clothes me with strength and makes my way perfect. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33He makes my feet like the feet of a deer and sets me securely on the heights. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34He trains my hands for war; my arms can bend a bow of bronze. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35You have given me the shield of Your salvation; Your right hand upholds me, and Your humility exalts me. |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36You widen a place beneath me for my steps, and my ankles do not give way. |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37I pursue my enemies and overtake them; I do not turn back until they are wiped out. |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38I crush them, and they cannot get up; they fall beneath my feet. |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39You have clothed me with strength for battle; You subdue my adversaries beneath me. |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40You have made my enemies retreat before me; I annihilate those who hate me. |
| 41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41They cry for help, but there is no one to save them-- they cry to the LORD, but He does not answer them. |
| 42[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 42I pulverize them like dust before the wind; I trample them like mud in the streets. |
| 43[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 43You have freed me from the feuds among the people; You have appointed me the head of nations; a people I had not known serve me. |
| 44[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 44Foreigners submit to me grudgingly; as soon as they hear, they obey me. |
| 45[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 45Foreigners lose heart and come trembling from their fortifications. |
| 46[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 46The LORD lives--may my rock be praised! The God of my salvation is exalted. |
| 47[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 47God--He gives me vengeance and subdues peoples under me. |
| 48[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 48He frees me from my enemies. You exalt me above my adversaries; You rescue me from violent men. |
| 49[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 49Therefore I will praise You, Yahweh, among the nations; I will sing about Your name. |
| 50[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 50He gives great victories to His king; He shows loyalty to His anointed, to David and his descendants forever. |
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