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[1] David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul, [2] and he said:
“Yahweh is my rock,
my fortress,
and my deliverer, even mine;
[3] God is my rock in whom I take refuge;
my shield, and the horn of my salvation,
my high tower, and my refuge.
My savior, you save me from violence.
[4] I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised;
So shall I be saved from my enemies. [5] For the waves of death surrounded me.
The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
[6] The cords of Sheolⓘ were around me.
The snares of death caught me.
[7] In my distress, I called on Yahweh.
Yes, I called to my God.
He heard my voice out of his temple.
My cry came into his ears.
[8] Then the earth shook and trembled.
The foundations of heaven quaked and were shaken,
because he was angry.
[9] Smoke went up out of his nostrils.
Consuming fire came out of his mouth.
Coals were kindled by it.
[10] He bowed the heavens also, and came down.
Thick darkness was under his feet.
[11] He rode on a cherub, and flew.
Yes, he was seen on the wings of the wind.
[12] He made darkness a shelter around himself,
gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
[13] At the brightness before him,
coals of fire were kindled.
[14] Yahweh thundered from heaven.
The Most High uttered his voice.
[15] He sent out arrows and scattered them,
lightning and confused them.
[16] Then the channels of the sea appeared.
The foundations of the world were laid bare by Yahweh’s rebuke,
at the blast of the breath of his nostrils. [17] He sent from on high and he took me.
He drew me out of many waters.
[18] He delivered me from my strong enemy,
from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me.
[19] They came on me in the day of my calamity,
but Yahweh was my support.
[20] He also brought me out into a large place.
He delivered me, because he delighted in me. [21] Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness.
He rewarded me according to the cleanness of my hands.
[22] For I have kept Yahweh’s ways,
and have not wickedly departed from my God.
[23] For all his ordinances were before me.
As for his statutes, I didn’t depart from them.
[24] I was also perfect toward him.
I kept myself from my iniquity.
[25] Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness,
According to my cleanness in his eyesight. [26] With the merciful you will show yourself merciful.
With the perfect man you will show yourself perfect.
[27] With the pure you will show yourself pure.
With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
[28] You will save the afflicted people,
but your eyes are on the arrogant, that you may bring them down.
[29] For you are my lamp, Yahweh.
Yahweh will light up my darkness.
[30] For by you, I run against a troop.
By my God, I leap over a wall.
[31] As for God, his way is perfect.
Yahweh’s word is tested.
He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him. [32] For who is God, besides Yahweh?
Who is a rock, besides our God?
[33] God is my strong fortress.
He makes my way perfect.
[34] He makes his feet like hinds’ feet,
and sets me on my high places.
[35] He teaches my hands to war,
so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.
[36] You have also given me the shield of your salvation.
Your gentleness has made me great.
[37] You have enlarged my steps under me.
My feet have not slipped.
[38] I have pursued my enemies and destroyed them.
I didn’t turn again until they were consumed.
[39] I have consumed them,
and struck them through,
so that they can’t arise.
Yes, they have fallen under my feet.
[40] For you have armed me with strength for the battle.
You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
[41] You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me,
that I might cut off those who hate me.
[42] They looked, but there was no one to save;
even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.
[43] Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth.
I crushed them as the mire of the streets, and spread them abroad. [44] You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people.
You have kept me to be the head of the nations.
A people whom I have not known will serve me.
[45] The foreigners will submit themselves to me.
As soon as they hear of me, they will obey me.
[46] The foreigners will fade away,
and will come trembling out of their close places. [47] Yahweh lives!
Blessed be my rock!
Exalted be God, the rock of my salvation,
[48] even the God who executes vengeance for me,
who brings down peoples under me,
[49] who brings me away from my enemies.
Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me.
You deliver me from the violent man.
[50] Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations,
and will sing praises to your name.
[51] He gives great deliverance to his king,
and shows loving kindness to his anointed,
to David and to his offspring, forever more.”
“Yahweh is my rock,
my fortress,
and my deliverer, even mine;
[3] God is my rock in whom I take refuge;
my shield, and the horn of my salvation,
my high tower, and my refuge.
My savior, you save me from violence.
[4] I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised;
So shall I be saved from my enemies. [5] For the waves of death surrounded me.
The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
[6] The cords of Sheolⓘ were around me.
The snares of death caught me.
[7] In my distress, I called on Yahweh.
Yes, I called to my God.
He heard my voice out of his temple.
My cry came into his ears.
[8] Then the earth shook and trembled.
The foundations of heaven quaked and were shaken,
because he was angry.
[9] Smoke went up out of his nostrils.
Consuming fire came out of his mouth.
Coals were kindled by it.
[10] He bowed the heavens also, and came down.
Thick darkness was under his feet.
[11] He rode on a cherub, and flew.
Yes, he was seen on the wings of the wind.
[12] He made darkness a shelter around himself,
gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
[13] At the brightness before him,
coals of fire were kindled.
[14] Yahweh thundered from heaven.
The Most High uttered his voice.
[15] He sent out arrows and scattered them,
lightning and confused them.
[16] Then the channels of the sea appeared.
The foundations of the world were laid bare by Yahweh’s rebuke,
at the blast of the breath of his nostrils. [17] He sent from on high and he took me.
He drew me out of many waters.
[18] He delivered me from my strong enemy,
from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me.
[19] They came on me in the day of my calamity,
but Yahweh was my support.
[20] He also brought me out into a large place.
He delivered me, because he delighted in me. [21] Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness.
He rewarded me according to the cleanness of my hands.
[22] For I have kept Yahweh’s ways,
and have not wickedly departed from my God.
[23] For all his ordinances were before me.
As for his statutes, I didn’t depart from them.
[24] I was also perfect toward him.
I kept myself from my iniquity.
[25] Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness,
According to my cleanness in his eyesight. [26] With the merciful you will show yourself merciful.
With the perfect man you will show yourself perfect.
[27] With the pure you will show yourself pure.
With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
[28] You will save the afflicted people,
but your eyes are on the arrogant, that you may bring them down.
[29] For you are my lamp, Yahweh.
Yahweh will light up my darkness.
[30] For by you, I run against a troop.
By my God, I leap over a wall.
[31] As for God, his way is perfect.
Yahweh’s word is tested.
He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him. [32] For who is God, besides Yahweh?
Who is a rock, besides our God?
[33] God is my strong fortress.
He makes my way perfect.
[34] He makes his feet like hinds’ feet,
and sets me on my high places.
[35] He teaches my hands to war,
so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.
[36] You have also given me the shield of your salvation.
Your gentleness has made me great.
[37] You have enlarged my steps under me.
My feet have not slipped.
[38] I have pursued my enemies and destroyed them.
I didn’t turn again until they were consumed.
[39] I have consumed them,
and struck them through,
so that they can’t arise.
Yes, they have fallen under my feet.
[40] For you have armed me with strength for the battle.
You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
[41] You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me,
that I might cut off those who hate me.
[42] They looked, but there was no one to save;
even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.
[43] Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth.
I crushed them as the mire of the streets, and spread them abroad. [44] You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people.
You have kept me to be the head of the nations.
A people whom I have not known will serve me.
[45] The foreigners will submit themselves to me.
As soon as they hear of me, they will obey me.
[46] The foreigners will fade away,
and will come trembling out of their close places. [47] Yahweh lives!
Blessed be my rock!
Exalted be God, the rock of my salvation,
[48] even the God who executes vengeance for me,
who brings down peoples under me,
[49] who brings me away from my enemies.
Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me.
You deliver me from the violent man.
[50] Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations,
and will sing praises to your name.
[51] He gives great deliverance to his king,
and shows loving kindness to his anointed,
to David and to his offspring, forever more.”
Footnotes
- Sheol is the place of the dead.
King James Version
[1] And DavidH1732 spakeH1696(PielImpf) unto the LordH3068 the wordsH1697 of this songH7892 in the dayH3117 [that] the LordH3068 had deliveredH5337(HiphPerf) him out of the handH3709 of all his enemies,H341(QalActPtc) and out of the handH3709 of Saul:H7586 [2] And he said,H559(QalImpf) The LordH3068 [is] my rock,H5553 and my fortress,H4686 and my deliverer;H6403(PielPtc) [3] The GodH430 of my rock;H6697 in him will I trust:H2620(QalImpf) [he is] my shield,H4043 and the hornH7161 of my salvation,H3468 my high tower,H4869 and my refuge,H4498 my saviour;H3467(HiphPtc) thou savestH3467(HiphImpf) me from violence.H2555 [4] I will callH7121(QalImpf) on the Lord,H3068 [who is] worthy to be praised:H1984(PualPtc) so shall I be savedH3467(NiphImpf) from mine enemies.H341(QalActPtc) [5] When the wavesH4867 of deathH4194 compassedH661(QalPerf) me, the floodsH5158 of ungodly menH1100 made me afraid;H1204(PielImpf) [6] The sorrowsH2256 of hellH7585 compassed me about;H5437(QalPerf) the snaresH4170 of deathH4194 preventedH6923(PielPerf) me; [7] In my distressH6862 I calledH7121(QalImpf) upon the Lord,H3068 and criedH7121(QalImpf) to my God:H430 and he did hearH8085(QalImpf) my voiceH6963 out of his temple,H1964 and my cryH7775 [did enter] into his ears.H241 [8] Then the earthH776 shookH1607(HithImpf/Qere) and trembled;H7493(QalImpf) the foundationsH4146 of heavenH8064 movedH7264(QalImpf) and shook,H1607(HithImpf) because he was wroth.H2734(QalPerf) [9] There went upH5927(QalPerf) a smokeH6227 out of his nostrils,H639 and fireH784 out of his mouthH6310 devoured:H398(QalImpf) coalsH1513 were kindledH1197(QalPerf) by it. [10] He bowedH5186(QalImpf) the heavensH8064 also, and came down;H3381(QalImpf) and darknessH6205 [was] under his feet.H7272 [11] And he rodeH7392(QalImpf) upon a cherub,H3742 and did fly:H5774(QalImpf) and he was seenH7200(NiphImpf) upon the wingsH3671 of the wind.H7307 [12] And he madeH7896(QalImpf) darknessH2822 pavilionsH5521 round aboutH5439 him, darkH2841 waters,H4325 [and] thick cloudsH5645 of the skies.H7834 [13] Through the brightnessH5051 before him were coalsH1513 of fireH784 kindled.H1197(QalPerf) [14] The LordH3068 thunderedH7481(HiphImpf) from heaven,H8064 and the most HighH5945 utteredH5414(QalImpf) his voice.H6963 [15] And he sent outH7971(QalImpf) arrows,H2671 and scatteredH6327(HiphImpf) them; lightning,H1300 and discomfitedH2000(QalImpf) them. [16] And the channelsH650 of the seaH3220 appeared,H7200(NiphImpf) the foundationsH4146 of the worldH8398 were discovered,H1540(NiphImpf) at the rebukingH1606 of the Lord,H3068 at the blastH5397 of the breathH7307 of his nostrils.H639 [17] He sentH7971(QalImpf) from above,H4791 he tookH3947(QalImpf) me; he drewH4871(HiphImpf) me out of manyH7227 waters;H4325 [18] He deliveredH5337(HiphImpf) me from my strongH5794 enemy,H341(QalActPtc) [and] from them that hatedH8130(QalActPtc) me: for they were too strongH553(QalPerf) for me. [19] They preventedH6923(PielImpf) me in the dayH3117 of my calamity:H343 but the LordH3068 was my stay.H4937 [20] He brought me forthH3318(HiphImpf) also into a large place:H4800 he deliveredH2502(PielImpf) me, because he delightedH2654(QalPerf) in me. [21] The LordH3068 rewardedH1580(QalImpf) me according to my righteousness:H6666 according to the cleannessH1252 of my handsH3027 hath he recompensedH7725(HiphImpf) me. [22] For I have keptH8104(QalPerf) the waysH1870 of the Lord,H3068 and have not wickedly departedH7561(QalPerf) from my God.H430 [23] For all his judgmentsH4941 [were] before me: and [as for] his statutes,H2708 I did not departH5493(QalImpf) from them. [24] I was also uprightH8549 before him, and have keptH8104(HithImpf) myself from mine iniquity.H5771 [25] Therefore the LordH3068 hath recompensedH7725(HiphImpf) me according to my righteousness;H6666 according to my cleannessH1252 in his eye sight.H5048 [26] With the mercifulH2623 thou wilt shew thyself merciful,H2616(HithImpf) [and] with the uprightH8549 manH1368 thou wilt shew thyself upright.H8552(HithImpf) [27] With the pureH1305(NiphPtc) thou wilt shew thyself pure;H1305(HithImpf) and with the frowardH6141 thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.H6617(HithImpf) [28] And the afflictedH6041 peopleH5971 thou wilt save:H3467(HiphImpf) but thine eyesH5869 [are] upon the haughty,H7311(QalActPtc) [that] thou mayest bring [them] down.H8213(HiphImpf) [29] For thou [art] my lamp,H5216 O Lord:H3068 and the LordH3068 will lightenH5050(HiphImpf) my darkness.H2822 [30] For by thee I have runH7323(QalImpf) through a troop:H1416 by my GodH430 have I leaped overH1801(PielImpf) a wall.H7791 [31] [As for] God,H410 his wayH1870 [is] perfect;H8549 the wordH565 of the LordH3068 [is] tried:H6884(QalPasPtc) he [is] a bucklerH4043 to all them that trustH2620(QalActPtc) in him. [32] For who [is] God,H410 saveH1107 the Lord?H3068 and who [is] a rock,H6697 saveH1107 our God?H430 [33] GodH410 [is] my strengthH4581 [and] power:H2428 and he makethH5425(HiphImpf) my wayH1870 perfect.H8549 [34] He makethH7737 my feetH7272 likeH7737(PielPtc) hinds’H355 [feet]: and settethH5975(HiphImpf) me upon my high places.H1116 [35] He teachethH3925(PielPtc) my handsH3027 to war;H4421 so that a bowH7198 of steelH5154 is brokenH5181(PielPerf) by mine arms.H2220 [36] Thou hast also givenH5414(QalImpf) me the shieldH4043 of thy salvation:H3468 and thy gentlenessH6031(QalInf/Ketiv) hath made me great.H7235(HiphImpf) [37] Thou hast enlargedH7337(HiphImpf) my stepsH6806 under me; so that my feetH7166 did not slip.H4571(QalPerf) [38] I have pursuedH7291(QalImpf) mine enemies,H341(QalActPtc) and destroyedH8045(HiphImpf) them; and turned not againH7725(QalImpf) until I had consumedH3615(PielInf) them. [39] And I have consumedH3615(PielImpf) them, and woundedH4272(QalImpf) them, that they could not arise:H6965(QalImpf) yea, they are fallenH5307(QalImpf) under my feet.H7272 [40] For thou hast girdedH247(PielImpf) me with strengthH2428 to battle:H4421 them that rose upH6965(QalPtc) against me hast thou subduedH3766(HiphImpf) under me. [41] Thou hast also givenH5414(QalPerf) me the necksH6203 of mine enemies,H341(QalActPtc) that I might destroyH6789(HiphImpf) them that hateH8130(PielPtc) me. [42] They looked,H8159(QalImpf) but [there was] none to save;H3467(HiphPtc) [even] unto the Lord,H3068 but he answeredH6030(QalPerf) them not. [43] Then did I beatH7833(QalImpf) them as small as the dustH6083 of the earth,H776 I did stampH1854(HiphImpf) them as the mireH2916 of the street,H2351 [and] did spread them abroad.H7554(QalImpf) [44] Thou also hast deliveredH6403(PielImpf) me from the strivingsH7379 of my people,H5971 thou hast keptH8104(QalImpf) me [to be] headH7218 of the heathen:H1471 a peopleH5971 [which] I knewH3045(QalPerf) not shall serveH5647(QalImpf) me. [45] StrangersH1121 shall submitH3584(HithImpf) themselves unto me: as soon as they hear,H8085(QalInf) they shall be obedientH8085(NiphImpf) unto me. [46] StrangersH1121 shall fade away,H5034(QalImpf) and they shall be afraidH2296(QalImpf) out of their close places.H4526 [47] The LordH3068 liveth;H2416 and blessedH1288(QalPasPtc) [be] my rock;H6697 and exaltedH7311(QalImpf) be the GodH430 of the rockH6697 of my salvation.H3468 [48] It [is] GodH410 that avengethH5414(QalActPtc) me, and that bringeth downH3381(HiphPtc) the peopleH5971 under me, [49] And that bringeth me forthH3318(HiphPtc) from mine enemies:H341(QalActPtc) thou also hast lifted me up on highH7311(PoleImpf) above them that rose upH6965(QalPtc) against me: thou hast deliveredH5337(HiphImpf) me from the violentH2555 man.H376 [50] Therefore I will give thanksH3034(HiphImpf) unto thee, O Lord,H3068 among the heathen,H1471 and I will sing praisesH2167(PielImpf) unto thy name.H8034 [51] [He is] the towerH4024(Qere) of salvationH3444 for his king:H4428 and shewethH6213(QalActPtc) mercyH2617 to his anointed,H4899 unto David,H1732 and to his seedH2233 forH5704 evermore.H5769
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