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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
- ⓘ 22:6 Sheol is the place of the dead.
King James Version
Hymn of Praise
[1] And David H1732 spake H1696 (PielImpf) unto the Lord H3068 the words H1697 of this song H7892 in the day H3117 that the Lord H3068 had delivered H5337 (HiphPerf) him out of the hand H3709 of all his enemies, H341 (QalActPtc) and out of the hand H3709 of Saul: H7586 [2] and he said, H559 (QalImpf)The Lord H3068 is my rock, H5553 and my fortress, H4686 and my deliverer; H6403 (PielPtc)
[3] The God H430 of my rock; H6697 in him will I trust: H2620 (QalImpf)
He is my shield, H4043 and the horn H7161 of my salvation, H3468 my high tower, H4869 and my refuge, H4498
My saviour; H3467 (HiphPtc) thou savest H3467 (HiphImpf) me from violence. H2555
[4] I will call H7121 (QalImpf) on the Lord, H3068 who is worthy to be praised: H1984 (PualPtc)
So shall I be saved H3467 (NiphImpf) from mine enemies. H341 (QalActPtc)
[5] When the waves H4867§ of death H4194 compassed H661 (QalPerf) me,
The floods H5158 of ungodly§ men H1100 made me afraid; H1204 (PielImpf)
[6] The sorrows H2256§ of hell H7585 compassed me about; H5437 (QalPerf)
The snares H4170 of death H4194 prevented H6923 (PielPerf) me;
[7] In my distress H6862 I called H7121 (QalImpf) upon the Lord, H3068
And cried H7121 (QalImpf) to my God: H430
And he did hear H8085 (QalImpf) my voice H6963 out of his temple, H1964
And my cry H7775 did enter into his ears. H241
[8] Then the earth H776 shook H1607 (HithImpf/Qere) and trembled; H7493 (QalImpf)
The foundations H4146 of heaven H8064 moved H7264 (QalImpf)
And shook, H1607 (HithImpf) because he was wroth. H2734 (QalPerf)
[9] There went up H5927 (QalPerf) a smoke H6227 out of his nostrils, H639§
And fire H784 out of his mouth H6310 devoured: H398 (QalImpf)
Coals H1513 were kindled H1197 (QalPerf) by it.
[10] He bowed H5186 (QalImpf) the heavens H8064 also, and came down; H3381 (QalImpf)
And darkness H6205 was under his feet. H7272
[11] And he rode H7392 (QalImpf) upon a cherub, H3742 and did fly: H5774 (QalImpf)
And he was seen H7200 (NiphImpf) upon the wings H3671 of the wind. H7307
[12] And he made H7896 (QalImpf) darkness H2822 pavilions H5521 round about H5439 him,
Dark H2841 waters, H4325§ and thick clouds H5645 of the skies. H7834
[13] Through the brightness H5051 before him
Were coals H1513 of fire H784 kindled. H1197 (QalPerf)
[14] The Lord H3068 thundered H7481 (HiphImpf) from heaven, H8064
And the Most High H5945 uttered H5414 (QalImpf) his voice. H6963
[15] And he sent out H7971 (QalImpf) arrows, H2671 and scattered H6327 (HiphImpf) them;
Lightning, H1300 and discomfited H2000 (QalImpf) them.
[16] And the channels H650 of the sea H3220 appeared, H7200 (NiphImpf)
The foundations H4146 of the world H8398 were discovered, H1540 (NiphImpf)
At the rebuking H1606 of the Lord, H3068
At the blast H5397 of the breath H7307 of his nostrils. H639
[17] He sent H7971 (QalImpf) from above, H4791 he took H3947 (QalImpf) me;
He drew H4871 (HiphImpf) me out of many H7227§ waters; H4325
[18] He delivered H5337 (HiphImpf) me from my strong H5794 enemy, H341 (QalActPtc)
And from them that hated H8130 (QalActPtc) me: for they were too strong H553 (QalPerf) for me.
[19] They prevented H6923 (PielImpf) me in the day H3117 of my calamity: H343
But the Lord H3068 was my stay. H4937
[20] He brought me forth H3318 (HiphImpf) also into a large place: H4800
He delivered H2502 (PielImpf) me, because he delighted H2654 (QalPerf) in me.
[21] The Lord H3068 rewarded H1580 (QalImpf) me according to my righteousness: H6666
According to the cleanness H1252 of my hands H3027 hath he recompensed H7725 (HiphImpf) me.
[22] For I have kept H8104 (QalPerf) the ways H1870 of the Lord, H3068
And have not wickedly departed H7561 (QalPerf) from my God. H430
[23] For all his judgments H4941 were before me:
And as for his statutes, H2708 I did not depart H5493 (QalImpf) from them.
[24] I was also upright H8549 before him,§
And have kept H8104 (HithImpf) myself from mine iniquity. H5771
[25] Therefore the Lord H3068 hath recompensed H7725 (HiphImpf) me according to my righteousness; H6666
According to my cleanness H1252 in his eye sight. H5048§ [26] With the merciful H2623 thou wilt shew thyself merciful, H2616 (HithImpf)
And with the upright H8549 man H1368 thou wilt shew thyself upright. H8552 (HithImpf)
[27] With the pure H1305 (NiphPtc) thou wilt shew thyself pure; H1305 (HithImpf)
And with the froward H6141 thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury. H6617 (HithImpf)§
[28] And the afflicted H6041 people H5971 thou wilt save: H3467 (HiphImpf)
But thine eyes H5869 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 Lord H3068 will lighten H5050 (HiphImpf) my darkness. H2822
[30] For by thee I have run H7323 (QalImpf) through a troop: H1416§
By my God H430 have I leaped over H1801 (PielImpf) a wall. H7791
[31] As for God, H410 his way H1870 is perfect; H8549
The word H565 of the Lord H3068 is tried:§ H6884 (QalPasPtc)
He is a buckler H4043 to all them that trust H2620 (QalActPtc) in him.
[32] For who is God, H410 save H1107 the Lord? H3068
And who is a rock, H6697 save H1107 our God? H430
[33] God H410 is my strength H4581 and power: H2428
And he maketh H5425 (HiphImpf)§ my way H1870 perfect. H8549
[34] He maketh H7737§ my feet H7272 like H7737 (PielPtc) hinds’ H355 feet:
And setteth H5975 (HiphImpf) me upon my high places. H1116
[35] He teacheth H3925 (PielPtc) my hands H3027 to war; H4421§
So that a bow H7198 of steel H5154 is broken H5181 (PielPerf) by mine arms. H2220
[36] Thou hast also given H5414 (QalImpf) me the shield H4043 of thy salvation: H3468
And thy gentleness H6031 (QalInf/Ketiv) hath made me great. H7235 (HiphImpf)§
[37] Thou hast enlarged H7337 (HiphImpf) my steps H6806 under me;
So that my feet§ H7166 did not slip. H4571 (QalPerf)
[38] I have pursued H7291 (QalImpf) mine enemies, H341 (QalActPtc) and destroyed H8045 (HiphImpf) them;
And turned not again H7725 (QalImpf) until I had consumed H3615 (PielInf) them.
[39] And I have consumed H3615 (PielImpf) them, and wounded H4272 (QalImpf) them, that they could not arise: H6965 (QalImpf)
Yea, they are fallen H5307 (QalImpf) under my feet. H7272
[40] For thou hast girded H247 (PielImpf) me with strength H2428 to battle: H4421
Them that rose up H6965 (QalPtc) against me hast thou subdued H3766 (HiphImpf)§ under me.
[41] Thou hast also given H5414 (QalPerf) me the necks H6203 of mine enemies, H341 (QalActPtc)
That I might destroy H6789 (HiphImpf) them that hate H8130 (PielPtc) me.
[42] They looked, H8159 (QalImpf) but there was none to save; H3467 (HiphPtc)
Even unto the Lord, H3068 but he answered H6030 (QalPerf) them not.
[43] Then did I beat H7833 (QalImpf) them as small as the dust H6083 of the earth, H776
I did stamp H1854 (HiphImpf) them as the mire H2916 of the street, H2351 and did spread them abroad. H7554 (QalImpf)
[44] Thou also hast delivered H6403 (PielImpf) me from the strivings H7379 of my people, H5971
Thou hast kept H8104 (QalImpf) me to be head H7218 of the heathen: H1471
A people H5971 which I knew H3045 (QalPerf) not shall serve H5647 (QalImpf) me.
[45] Strangers H1121§ shall submit H3584 (HithImpf)§ themselves unto me:
As soon as they hear, H8085 (QalInf) they shall be obedient H8085 (NiphImpf) unto me.
[46] Strangers H1121 shall fade away, H5034 (QalImpf)
And they shall be afraid H2296 (QalImpf) out of their close places. H4526
[47] The Lord H3068 liveth; H2416 and blessed H1288 (QalPasPtc) be my rock; H6697
And exalted H7311 (QalImpf) be the God H430 of the rock H6697 of my salvation. H3468
[48] It is God H410 that avengeth H5414 (QalActPtc) me,§
And that bringeth down H3381 (HiphPtc) the people H5971 under me,
[49] And that bringeth me forth H3318 (HiphPtc) from mine enemies: H341 (QalActPtc)
Thou also hast lifted me up on high H7311 (PoleImpf) above them that rose up H6965 (QalPtc) against me:
Thou hast delivered H5337 (HiphImpf) me from the violent H2555 man. H376
[50] Therefore I will give thanks H3034 (HiphImpf) unto thee, O Lord, H3068 among the heathen, H1471
And I will sing praises H2167 (PielImpf) unto thy name. H8034
[51] He is the tower H4024 (Qere) of salvation H3444 for his king: H4428
And sheweth H6213 (QalActPtc) mercy H2617 to his anointed, H4899
Unto David, H1732 and to his seed H2233 for H5704 evermore. H5769
Footnotes
- § 22:5a Or, pangs
- § 22:5b Heb. Belial
- § 22:6 Or, cords
- § 22:9 Heb. by
- § 22:12 Heb. binding of waters
- § 22:17 Or, great
- § 22:24 Heb. to him
- § 22:25 Heb. before his eyes
- § 22:27 Or, wrestle
- § 22:29 Or, candle
- § 22:30 Or, broken a troop
- § 22:31 Or, refined
- § 22:33 Heb. riddeth, or, looseth
- § 22:34 Heb. equalleth
- § 22:35 Heb. for the war
- § 22:36 Heb. multiplied me
- § 22:37 Heb. ankles
- § 22:40 Heb. caused to bow
- § 22:45a Heb. sons of the stranger
- § 22:45b Or, yield fainted obedience. Heb. lie
- § 22:48 Heb. giveth avengement for me
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