1 Heartily do I love Thee, Jehovah, my strength! 2 Jehovah, my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, My God, my rock in whom I take refuge, My shield and the horn of my salvation and my high tower! 3 I call upon Him who is to be praised, Jehovah; And from mine enemies am I saved.
4 The breakers of death ringed me round, And streams of destruction terrified me. 5 The cords of Sheol encircled me; The snares of death fronted me. 6 In my distress I called on Jehovah, And to my God I loudly cried; He heard my voice from His palace-temple, And my loud crying before Him entered His ears.
7 Then the earth rocked and reeled, And the foundations of the mountains quivered And rocked again, for He was wroth. 8 Smoke went up in His nostrils, And fire from His mouth devoured; Brands came blazing from Him. 9 And He bowed the heavens and came down, And cloud gloom [was] below His feet. 10 And He rode upon the cherub and flew, And came swooping on the wings of the wind. 11 He made darkness His covert, His tent round about Him, Darkness of waters and cloud masses of the skies. 12 From the brightness before Him there passed through His cloud-masses Hail and brands of fire. 13 And Jehovah thundered in the heavens, And the Most High gave forth His voice. 14 And He sent forth His arrows and scattered them, And lightnings many, and flung them into panic. 15 And the beds of the waters were seen, And the foundations of the earth bared, At Thy rebuke, Jehovah, At the blast of the breath of Thy nostrils.
16 He stretched from on high: He took me; He drew me from many waters. 17 He rescued me from my strong enemy And from my haters, because they were too mighty for me. 18 They fell on me in the day of my calamity, But Jehovah became as a staff to me. 19 And He brought me out into a wide place; He delivered me, because He delighted in me.
20 Jehovah treated me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands He returned [recompense] to me. 21 For I kept the ways of Jehovah, And did not part myself by sin from my God. 22 For all His judgments were before me, And His statutes did I not put away from me. 23 And I was without fault with Him, And I kept myself from my iniquity. 24 Therefore Jehovah returned [recompense] to me according to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands before His eyes.
25 With the gracious man Thou showest Thyself gracious; With the faultless man Thou showest Thyself faultless. 26 With him who purifies himself Thou showest Thyself pure, And with the perverse Thou showest Thyself froward. 27 For Thou savest humbled people, And eyes uplifted Thou dost bring low.
28 For Thou lightest my lamp; Jehovah my God brightens my darkness. 29 For by Thee I run down a troop, And through my God I spring over a rampart. 30 As for God, His way is faultless; The word of Jehovah is tried (as by fire): A shield is He to all who take refuge in Him. 31 For who is God but Jehovah, And who is a rock besides our God? 32 [It is] God who girded me with strength, And made my way faultless; 33 Who made my feet like hinds' [feet], And made me stand upon my high places; 34 Who schooled my hands for war, So that my arms bend a bow of brass.
35 And Thou didst give me the shield of Thy salvation, And Thy right hand upheld me, And Thy humility made me great. 36 Thou didst broaden under me [a path for] my step, And my ankles did not give.