¹I love you, YHWH, my strength.

²YHWH is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer,

my God is my boulder where I take refuge,

my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

³I called to YHWH, who is worthy of praise,

and I have been saved from my enemies.

⁴The ropes of death surrounded me.

The torrents of destruction terrified me.

⁵The ropes of Sheol encircled me.

The snares of death confronted me.

⁶In my distress I called on YHWH,

and to my God I cried.

Hᴇ heard my voice from ʜɪꜱ temple.

My cry came before ʜɪᴍ into ʜɪꜱ ears.

⁷Then the earth shook and quaked,

and the foundations of the mountains trembled and were shaken,

because ʜᴇ burned with anger.

⁸Smoke ascended from ʜɪꜱ nostrils.

A devouring fire came from ʜɪꜱ mouth,

and coals were kindled by it.

⁹Hᴇ parted the heavens and came down.

A gloom of darkness was under ʜɪꜱ feet.

¹⁰Hᴇ mounted a cherub and flew,

soaring on the wings of the wind.

¹¹Hᴇ made darkness ʜɪꜱ covering, a canopy around ʜɪᴍ,

enveloped by the darkness of waters and storm clouds.

¹²From the radiance of ʜɪꜱ presence came ʜɪꜱ storm clouds,

hailstones, and fiery coals.

¹³YHWH thundered from heaven.

The Most High offered ʜɪꜱ voice as

hailstones and fiery coals.

¹⁴Hᴇ sent out ʜɪꜱ arrows and scattered them,

ʜᴇ launched great lightning bolts and confused them.

¹⁵Then the channels of waters appeared.

The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, YHWH,

at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.

¹⁶Hᴇ reach down from on high and took me.

Hᴇ pulled me out of deep waters.

¹⁷Hᴇ rescued me from my fierce enemy,

from those who hated me, for they were too strong for me.

¹⁸They confronted me in the day of my calamity,

but YHWH was my support.

¹⁹Hᴇ brought me out into a spacious place.

Hᴇ delivered me, because ʜᴇ delighted in me.

²⁰YHWH has rewarded me according to my righteousness.

According to the cleanness of my hands, ʜᴇ has repaid me.

²¹For I have kept the ways of YHWH,

and have not acted wickedly toward my God.

²²For all ʜɪꜱ ordinances were before me.

I did not turn away ʜɪꜱ statutes.

²³I was blameless toward ʜɪꜱ.

I kept myself from my sin.

²⁴YHWH has rewarded me according to my righteousness,

according to the cleanness of my hands in ʜɪꜱ eyes.

²⁵With the faithful you will show yourself faithful.

With the complete person, you show yourself complete.

²⁶With the pure, you show yourself pure.

With the crooked you show yourself shrewd.

²⁷For you save the oppressed people,

but the arrogant eyes you will bring down.

²⁸For you light my lamp, YHWH.

My God shines in my darkness.

²⁹For with you, I can run against a troop,

and with my God, I leap over a wall.

³⁰As for God, ʜɪꜱ way is complete.

The word of YHWH has been tested in the smelter.

Hᴇ is a shield to all who take refuge in ʜɪᴍ.

³¹For who is God but YHWH?

Who is a rock but our God?

³²The one God arms me with strength,

and makes my way complete?

³³Hᴇ makes my feet like deer’s feet,

and enables me to stand on my high places.

³⁴Hᴇ trains my hands for battle,

my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

³⁵You have given me the shield of your salvation.

Your right hand sustains me.

Your humility has made me great.

³⁶You have enlarged my steps under me,

My feet have not slipped.

³⁷I will pursue my enemies and overtake them.

I won’t turn back until they are consumed.

³⁸I will smash them, so they cannot rise.

They will fall under my feet.

³⁹You have armed me with strength for battle.

You have bent the knees of those who rose up against me.

⁴⁰You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me,

and I destroyed those who hate me.

⁴¹They cried, but there was no one to save,

Even to YHWH, but ʜᴇ did not answer them.

⁴²I grind them until they are dust in the wind.

I pour them out like mud in the streets.

⁴³You have delivered me from the hostility of the people.

You have made me the head of the nations.

A people I had not known will serve me.

⁴⁴As soon as they hear of me they will obey me.

The foreigners will submit themselves to me.

⁴⁵The foreigners will become faint,

and will come trembling from their strongholds.

⁴⁶YHWH lives! Blessed be my rock.

Exalted be the God of my salvation,

⁴⁷The one God who executes vengeance for me,

and arranges peoples under me.

⁴⁸Hᴇ rescues me from my enemies.

Surely, you lift me up above those who rise up against me.

You delivered me from the violent man.

⁴⁹Therefore I will give thanks to you, YHWH, among the nations,

and will sing praises to your name.

⁵⁰Hᴇ gives great deliverance to ʜɪꜱ king,

and shows lovingkindness to ʜɪꜱ anointed,

to David and to his descendants forever more.