⁵"For the waves of death encompassed me,
the torrents of perdition assailed me;
⁶the cords of Sheol entangled me,
the snares of death confronted me.

⁷"In my distress I called upon Yahweh;
to my God I called.
From his temple he heard my voice,
and my cry came to his ears.

⁸"Then the earth reeled and rocked;
the foundations of the heavens trembled and quaked,
because he was angry.
⁹Smoke went up from his nostrils,
and devouring fire from his mouth;
glowing coals flamed forth from him.
¹⁰He bowed the heavens, and came down;
thick darkness was under his feet.
¹¹He rode on a cherub, and flew;
he was seen upon the wings of the wind.
¹²He made darkness around him his canopy,
thick clouds, a gathering of water.
¹³Out of the brightness before him
coals of fire flamed forth.
¹⁴Yahweh thundered from heaven,
and the Most High uttered his voice.
¹⁵And he sent out arrows, and scattered them;
lightning, and routed them.
¹⁶Then the channels of the sea were seen,
the foundations of the world were laid bare,
at the rebuke of Yahweh,
at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

¹⁷"He reached from on high, he took me,
he drew me out of many waters.
¹⁸He delivered me from my strong enemy,
from those who hated me;
for they were too mighty for me.
¹⁹They came upon me in the day of my calamity;
but Yahweh was my stay.
²⁰He brought me forth into a broad place;
he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

²¹"Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness;
according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me.
²²For I have kept the ways of Yahweh,
and have not wickedly departed from my God.
²³For all his ordinances were before me,
and from his statutes I did not turn aside.
²⁴I was blameless before him,
and I kept myself from guilt.
²⁵Therefore Yahweh has recompensed me
according to my righteousness,
according to my cleanness in his sight.

²⁶"With the loyal you show yourself loyal;
with the blameless man you show yourself blameless;
²⁷with the pure you show yourself pure,
and with the crooked you show yourself perverse.
²⁸You deliver a humble people,
but your eyes are upon the haughty to bring them down.
²⁹Yea, you are my lamp, O Yahweh,
and my God lightens my darkness.
³⁰Yea, by you I can crush a troop,
and by my God I can leap over a wall.
³¹This God - his way is perfect;
the promise of Yahweh proves true;
he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.

³²"For who is God, but Yahweh?
And who is a rock, except our God?
³³This God is my strong refuge,
and has made my way safe.
³⁴He made my feet like hinds' feet,
and set me secure on the heights.
³⁵He trains my hands for war,
so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
³⁶You have given me the shield of your salvation,
and your help made me great.
³⁷You gave a wide place for my steps under me,
and my feet did not slip;
³⁸I pursued my enemies and destroyed them,
and did not turn back until they were consumed.
³⁹I consumed them;
I thrust them through,
so that they did not rise;
they fell under my feet.
⁴⁰For you girded me with strength for the battle;
you made my assailants sink under me.
⁴¹You made my enemies turn their backs to me,
those who hated me, and I destroyed them.
⁴²They looked, but there was none to save;
they cried to Yahweh, but he did not answer them.
⁴³I beat them fine as the dust of the earth,
I crushed them and stamped them down like the mire of the streets.

⁴⁴"You delivered me from strife with the peoples;
you kept me as the head of the nations;
people whom I had not known served me.
⁴⁵Foreigners came cringing to me;
as soon as they heard of me, they obeyed me.
⁴⁶Foreigners lost heart,
and came trembling out of their fastnesses.

⁴⁷"Yahweh lives;
and blessed be my rock,
and exalted be my God,
the rock of my salvation,
⁴⁸the God who gave me vengeance
and brought down peoples under me,
⁴⁹who brought me out from my enemies;
you exalted me above my adversaries,
you delivered me from men of violence.

⁵⁰"For this I will extol you, O Yahweh, among the nations,
and sing praises to your name.
⁵¹Great triumphs he gives to his king,
and shows steadfast love to his anointed,
to David, and his descendants for ever."