¹ I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.

² The LORD is my rock,
and my fortress,
and my deliverer;
my God, my strength,
in whom I will trust;
my buckler, and
the horn of my salvation, and
my high tower.

³ I will call upon the LORD,
who is worthy to be praised:
so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

⁴ The sorrows of death compassed me,
and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

⁵ The sorrows of hell compassed me about:
the snares of death prevented me.

⁶ In my distress I called upon the LORD,
and cried unto my God:
he heard my voice out of his temple,
and my cry came before him,
even into his ears.

⁷ Then the earth shook and trembled;
the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken,
because he was wroth.

⁸ There went up a smoke out of his nostrils,
and fire out of his mouth devoured:
coals were kindled by it.

⁹ He bowed the heavens also,
and came down:
and darkness was under his feet.

¹⁰ And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly:
yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.

¹¹ He made darkness his secret place;
his pavilion round about him were dark waters
and thick clouds of the skies.

¹² At the brightness that was before him
his thick clouds passed,
hail stones and coals of fire.

¹³ The LORD also thundered in the heavens,
and the Highest gave his voice;
hail stones and coals of fire.

¹⁴ Yea, he sent out his arrows,
and scattered them;
and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.

¹⁵ Then the channels of waters were seen,
and the foundations of the world
were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD,
at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

¹⁶ He sent from above, he took me,
he drew me out of many waters.

¹⁷ He delivered me from my strong enemy,
and from them which hated me:
for they were too strong for me.

¹⁸ They prevented me in the day of my calamity:
but the LORD was my stay.

¹⁹ He brought me forth also into a large place;
he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

²⁰ The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness;
according to the cleanness of my hands
hath he recompensed me.

²¹ For I have kept the ways of the LORD,
and have not wickedly departed from my God.

²² For all his judgments were before me,
and I did not put away his statutes from me.

²³ I was also upright before him,
and I kept myself from mine iniquity.

²⁴ Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me
according to my righteousness,
according to the cleanness of my hands
in his eyesight.

²⁵ With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful;
with an upright man
thou wilt shew thyself upright;

²⁶ With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure;
and with the froward
thou wilt shew thyself froward.

²⁷ For thou wilt save the afflicted people;
but wilt bring down high looks.

²⁸ For thou wilt light my candle:
the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.

²⁹ For by thee I have run through a troop;
and by my God have I leaped over a wall.

³⁰ As for God, his way is perfect:
the word of the LORD is tried:
he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.

³¹ For who is God save the LORD?
or who is a rock save our God?

³² It is God that girdeth me with strength,
and maketh my way perfect.

³³ He maketh my feet like hinds' feet,
and setteth me upon my high places.

³⁴ He teacheth my hands to war,
so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.

³⁵ Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation:
and thy right hand hath holden me up,
and thy gentleness hath made me great.

³⁶ Thou hast enlarged my steps under me,
that my feet did not slip.

³⁷ I have pursued mine enemies,
and overtaken them:
neither did I turn again till they were consumed.

³⁸ I have wounded them
that they were not able to rise:
they are fallen under my feet.

³⁹ For thou hast girded me with strength
unto the battle:
thou hast subdued under me
those that rose up against me.

⁴⁰ Thou hast also given me
the necks of mine enemies;
that I might destroy them that hate me.

⁴¹ They cried, but there was none to save them:
even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.

⁴² Then did I beat them small
as the dust before the wind:
I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.

⁴³ Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people;
and thou hast made me the head of the heathen:
a people whom I have not known shall serve me.

⁴⁴ As soon as they hear of me,
they shall obey me:
the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.

⁴⁵ The strangers shall fade away,
and be afraid out of their close places.

⁴⁶ The LORD liveth;
and blessed be my rock;
and let the God of my salvation be exalted.

⁴⁷ It is God that avengeth me,
and subdueth the people under me.

⁴⁸ He delivereth me from mine enemies:
yea, thou liftest me up above those
that rise up against me:
thou hast delivered me from the violent man.

⁴⁹ Therefore will I give thanks unto thee,
O LORD, among the heathen,
and sing praises unto thy name.

⁵⁰ Great deliverance giveth he to his king;
and sheweth mercy to his anointed,
to David,
and to his seed for evermore.

All Scripture has been taken from
The Holy Bible - KJV (King James Version)