MLV(i)
1 I love you, O Jehovah, my strength.
2 Jehovah is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I will take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
3 I will call upon Jehovah, who is worthy to be praised. So I will be saved from my enemies.
4 The cords of death encompassed me and the torrents of wickness made me afraid. 5 The cords of Sheol were all around me. The snares of death came upon me.
6 I called upon Jehovah in my distress and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple and my cry before him came into his ears.
7 Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken because he was angry.
8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils and fire out of his mouth devoured. Coals were kindled by it. 9 He also bowed the heavens and came down and thick darkness was under his feet.
10 And he rode upon a cherub and flew. Yes, he soared upon the wings of the wind.
11 He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion all around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
12 At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire. 13 Jehovah also thundered in the heavens and the Most High uttered his voice, hailstones and coals of fire. 14 And he sent out his arrows and scattered them, Yes, lightnings shot out and confused them.
15 Then the channels of waters appeared and the foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, O Jehovah, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
16 He sent from on high, he took me, he drew me out of many waters. 17 He delivered me from my strong enemy and from those who hated me, because they were too mighty for me.
18 They came upon me in the day of my calamity, but Jehovah was my support. 19 He also brought me forth into a large place. He delivered me because he delighted in me.
20 Jehovah has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands he has recompensed me. 21 Because I have kept the ways of Jehovah and have not wickedly departed from my God.
22 Because all his ordinances were before me and I put not away his statutes from me. 23 I was also perfect with him and I kept myself from my iniquity.
24 Therefore Jehovah has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
25 You will show yourself merciful with the merciful. You will show yourself perfect with the perfect man. 26 You will show yourself pure with the pure.And with the perverse you will show yourself contrary.
27 Because you will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes you will bring down. 28 Because you will light my lamp. Jehovah my God will lighten my darkness. 29 Because by you I run upon a troop and by my God I leap over a wall.
30 As for God, his way is perfect. The word of Jehovah is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
31 Because who is God, except Jehovah? And who is a rock, besides our God, 32 the God who girds me with strength and makes my way perfect? 33 He makes my feet like the feet of female-deers and sets me upon my high places. 34 He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of brass.
35 You have also given me the shield of your salvation and your right hand has held me up and your gentleness has made me great. 36 You have enlarged my steps under me and my feet have not slipped.
37 I will pursue my enemies and overtake them. Neither will I turn again till they are consumed. 38 I will kill* them through, so that they will not be able to rise. They will fall under my feet.
39 For you have girded me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
40 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me. 41 They cried, but there was none to save, even to Jehovah, but he answered them not.
42 Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mud of the streets.
43 You have delivered me from the strifes of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known will serve me. 44 As soon as they hear of me they will obey me. The foreigners will submit themselves to me. 45 The foreigners will fade away and will come trembling out of their borders.
46 Jehovah lives and my rock is blessed and exalted be the God of my salvation, 47 even the God who executes vengeance for me and subdues peoples under me. 48 He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.
49 Therefore I will give thanks to you, O Jehovah, among the Gentiles and will sing praises to your name. 50 He gives great deliverance to his king and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his seed, until everlasting.
3 I will call upon Jehovah, who is worthy to be praised. So I will be saved from my enemies.
4 The cords of death encompassed me and the torrents of wickness made me afraid. 5 The cords of Sheol were all around me. The snares of death came upon me.
6 I called upon Jehovah in my distress and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple and my cry before him came into his ears.
7 Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken because he was angry.
8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils and fire out of his mouth devoured. Coals were kindled by it. 9 He also bowed the heavens and came down and thick darkness was under his feet.
10 And he rode upon a cherub and flew. Yes, he soared upon the wings of the wind.
11 He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion all around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
12 At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire. 13 Jehovah also thundered in the heavens and the Most High uttered his voice, hailstones and coals of fire. 14 And he sent out his arrows and scattered them, Yes, lightnings shot out and confused them.
15 Then the channels of waters appeared and the foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, O Jehovah, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
16 He sent from on high, he took me, he drew me out of many waters. 17 He delivered me from my strong enemy and from those who hated me, because they were too mighty for me.
18 They came upon me in the day of my calamity, but Jehovah was my support. 19 He also brought me forth into a large place. He delivered me because he delighted in me.
20 Jehovah has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands he has recompensed me. 21 Because I have kept the ways of Jehovah and have not wickedly departed from my God.
22 Because all his ordinances were before me and I put not away his statutes from me. 23 I was also perfect with him and I kept myself from my iniquity.
24 Therefore Jehovah has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
25 You will show yourself merciful with the merciful. You will show yourself perfect with the perfect man. 26 You will show yourself pure with the pure.And with the perverse you will show yourself contrary.
27 Because you will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes you will bring down. 28 Because you will light my lamp. Jehovah my God will lighten my darkness. 29 Because by you I run upon a troop and by my God I leap over a wall.
30 As for God, his way is perfect. The word of Jehovah is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
31 Because who is God, except Jehovah? And who is a rock, besides our God, 32 the God who girds me with strength and makes my way perfect? 33 He makes my feet like the feet of female-deers and sets me upon my high places. 34 He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of brass.
35 You have also given me the shield of your salvation and your right hand has held me up and your gentleness has made me great. 36 You have enlarged my steps under me and my feet have not slipped.
37 I will pursue my enemies and overtake them. Neither will I turn again till they are consumed. 38 I will kill* them through, so that they will not be able to rise. They will fall under my feet.
39 For you have girded me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
40 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me. 41 They cried, but there was none to save, even to Jehovah, but he answered them not.
42 Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mud of the streets.
43 You have delivered me from the strifes of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known will serve me. 44 As soon as they hear of me they will obey me. The foreigners will submit themselves to me. 45 The foreigners will fade away and will come trembling out of their borders.
46 Jehovah lives and my rock is blessed and exalted be the God of my salvation, 47 even the God who executes vengeance for me and subdues peoples under me. 48 He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.
49 Therefore I will give thanks to you, O Jehovah, among the Gentiles and will sing praises to your name. 50 He gives great deliverance to his king and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his seed, until everlasting.