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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1David composed the words of this song to the LORD the very day the LORD delivered him from the domination of all of his enemies, including from Saul's hands. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2This is what he said: LORD, you are my stone stronghold and my fortified place; you are continuously delivering me. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3He is my God, my strong stone— in him I will find my refuge— my shield, the strength of my salvation, my high tower, my way of escape, and the one who is saving me. You will save me from violence. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4As I am praising him, I will call out to the LORD, and I will be saved from my enemies. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Because deadly breakers engulfed me, while torrents of abuse from the ungodly overwhelmed me. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Binding ropes from Sheol entangled me while lethal snares hindered me. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7I cried out to the LORD in the middle of my troubles; I cried out to my God. He listened to my voice from his sanctuary, and my call for help was heard. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Just then the earth shook and trembled! The foundations of heaven reeled and quaked because the LORD was angry. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Smoke poured out of his nostrils, and fire from his mouth kindling coals to flame by it. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10He deformed heaven itself as he descended. Thick darkness enveloped 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] | 12The darkness around him was his canopies— amassed water was his overhanging clouds! |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13From the shining light that was his presence coals of fire blazed into flame! |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14The LORD roared from heaven! The Most High let his voice be heard! |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15He launched his arrows and scattered them— his lightning routed them. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16The currents of the sea were revealed and the foundations of the world were exposed at the rebuke of the LORD and at the blazing breath from his nostrils! |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17He sent for me from on high! He grabbed hold of me, drawing me out of deep water. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18He rescued me from my strong enemy— from those who hate me continually, since they were stronger than I. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19They confronted me when I was in trouble, but the LORD remained my support! |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20He brought me to a wide open area, rescuing me because he was pleased with me! |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21The LORD dealt with me according to my righteousness, rewarding me according to the degree of my innocence, |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22because I have kept the LORD's way— I haven't willfully abandoned my God— |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23and because all of his decrees remain in my thoughts, I have not turned aside from his statutes, |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24I have been innocent before him, and I've kept myself from incurring guilt. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25The Lord has repaid me according to my righteousness, that is, according to my clean standing as he looks at me. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26In the company of the gracious you demonstrate your gracious love. In the company of the blamelessly valiant you demonstrate your blamelessness. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27In the company of the pure you demonstrate your purity. In the company of the perverted you will appear to be perverse. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28You save the nation who is humble but your eyes watch the proud, to bring them down. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29For you are my lamp, LORD, the LORD who illuminates my darkness. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30By you I devastate armies, by my God I scale walls. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31This God! His way is perfect! What the LORD declares proves true. He shields everyone who flees for protection to him! |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32For who is God apart from the LORD? And who is a Rock, apart from our God? |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33This God is my strong place of valor! He has made my life blameless. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34He has made my feet like those of a deer, setting me secure on his high places! |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35He has trained my hands for battle readiness— I can bend a bow made out of bronze. |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36He has equipped me with the shield that is your salvation, Your gentleness has made me great. |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37You've made room beneath me for my footsteps, and my feet didn't slip. |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38I pursued my enemies and conquered them; I didn't return until they were consumed. |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39I devoured them, striking them down until they could not get up again. They fell beneath my feet. |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40You strengthened me with valor sufficient for the battle; you made those who rebelled against me fall beneath me. |
| 41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41You made my enemies turn and run— that is, those who hate me— and I destroyed them! |
| 42[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 42They looked around, but there was no one to save them — they looked to the LORD, but he paid no attention! |
| 43[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 43I pulverized them to powder, like the dust of the earth; I crushed them, stomping on them like mud on a street. |
| 44[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 44You delivered me from civil war among my own people. You preserved me as head of the nations. People whom I had never known served me! |
| 45[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 45Foreigners came cringing to me; they obeyed as soon as they heard me. |
| 46[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 46Foreigners lost their courage, coming trembling from their strongholds. |
| 47[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 47The LORD lives! Blessed be my Rock, and may my God be exalted, the Rock who is my salvation! |
| 48[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 48The God who keeps on avenging me, subjugating people beneath me, |
| 49[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 49delivering me from my enemies. You exalted me above those who rebelled against me, delivering me from violent men. |
| 50[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 50Because of all of this I will praise you among the nations, LORD, and I will sing praises to your name! |
| 51[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 51Great is the salvation he brings to his king, showing gracious love to his anointed, to David and to his offspring forever. |
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