ECB(i)
1 To His Eminence; By David the servant of Yah Veh: who worded to Yah Veh the words of this song in the day Yah Weh rescued him from the palm of his enemies, and from the hand of Shaul: and he says, I mercy you, O Yah Veh, my strength!
2 Yah Veh is my rock and my stronghold and my escape; my El, my rock in whom I seek refuge; my buckler and the horn of my salvation; my secure loft.
3 I call Yah Veh, The Halaled One: - saved from my enemies.
4 The cords of death surround me; the wadies of Beli Yaal frighten me;
5 the cords of sheol surround me; the snares of death anticipate me.
6 In my tribulation I call on Yah Veh and cry to my Elohim; he hears my voice from his manse, and my cry comes at his face - to his ears.
7 And the earth shakes and quakes; the foundations of the mountains quake and shake because he is inflamed.
8 A smoke ascends from his nostrils and fire from his mouth consumes - it burns coals.
9 And he spreads the heavens, and descends; dripping darkness is under his feet:
10 he rides on a cherub and flies; yes, he flies on the wings of the wind:
11 he sets darkness for his covert; his sukkoth/brush arbor surrounds him - dark waters and thick clouds of vapours:
12 at the brilliance in front of him his thick clouds pass - hail and coals of fire.
13 Yah Veh thunders in the heavens; Elyon gives his voice - hail and coals of fire:
14 yes, he sends his arrows and scatters them; he shoots lightnings and agitates them.
15 And the reservoirs of waters were seen, and exposed are the foundations of the world at your rebuke, O Yah Veh - at the breath of the wind/spirit of your nostrils.
16 He sends from the heights; he takes me; he draws me from many waters:
17 he rescues me from my strong enemy - from them who hate me; for they are stronger than I.
18 They anticipate me in the day of my calamity; and Yah Veh is my support.
19 He brings me to an expanse; he rescues me, because he delights in me:
20 Yah Veh deals according to my justness; - returns according to the purity of my hands:
21 for I guard the ways of Yah Veh - not done wickedly against my Elohim.
22 For all his judgments are in front of me and I turn not aside his statutes from me:
23 and I am integrious in front of him and I guard myself from my perversity:
24 and Yah Veh returns to me according to my justness - according to the purity of my hands in his eyes.
25 With the mercied, merciful; with the mighty integrious, integrious;
26 with the pure, purified; with the pervert, a wrestler.
27 For you save the humble people and abase the lofted eye.
28 For you - you light my lamp; Yah Veh my Elohim illuminates my darkeness.
29 For by you, I run a troop; and by Elohim I leap a wall.
30 El, his way is integrious; the saying of Yah Veh is refined: he is a buckler to all who seek refuge in him.
31 For who is Elohah, except Yah Veh? Who is a rock, except our Elohim?
32 El girts me with valour and gives my way integrious;
33 He places my feet as the hinds and stands me on my bamahs;
34 he teaches my hands to war so my arms bend a bow of steel.
35 You give me the buckler of your salvation; your right upholds me; and your humbleness abounds me:
36 you enlarge my paces under me; my ankles waver not.
37 I pursue my enemies, and overtake them; I return not until they are finished off:
38 I strike them who are not able to rise; they fall under my feet.
39 For you girt me with valour to the war; you knuckle them under who rise:
40 you give me the necks of my enemies; to exterminate them who hate me.
41 They cry, and there is no savior; - to Yah Veh, but he answers them not.
42 And I purlverize them as the dust at the face of the wind; I pour them out as mire in the outways.
43 You slip me away from the strivings of the people; and you set me at the head of the goyim: a people I know not serve me.
44 At the hearing of the ear, they hearken to me; the sons of strangers disavow me:
45 the sons of strangers wither, and tremble from their borders.
46 Yah Veh lives; blessed be my rock; and lofted be the Elohim of my salvation.
47 El gives me vengeance - subdues all the people under me.
48 He slips me away from my enemies; yes, you lift me above them who rise; you rescue me from the man of violence.
49 So I spread hands to you, O Yah Veh, among the goyim, and psalm to your name.
50 He greatens salvation to his sovereign; and works mercy to his anointed - to David, and to his seed eternally.