Psalm

 2 Jehovah is my crag and my stronghold and the Provider of escape for me.+

My God* is my rock. I shall take refuge in him,*+

My shield and my horn of salvation, my secure height.+

 3 On the One to be praised, Jehovah, I shall call,+

And from my enemies I shall be saved.+

 4 The ropes of death encircled me;+

Flash floods of good-for-nothing [men]* also kept terrifying me.+

 5 The very ropes of Sheʹol surrounded me;+

The snares of death confronted me.+

 6 In my distress I kept calling upon Jehovah,

And to my God* I kept crying for help.+

Out of his temple he proceeded to hear my voice,+

And my own cry before him for help now came into his ears.+

 7 And the earth began to shake and rock,+

And the foundations of the mountains themselves became agitated,+

And they kept shaking back and forth because he had been angered.+

 8 Smoke went up at his nostrils, and fire itself from his mouth kept devouring;+

Coals themselves blazed forth from him.

 9 And he proceeded to bend the heavens down and descend.+

And thick gloom was beneath his feet.

10 And he came riding upon a cherub and came flying,+

And he came darting upon the wings of a spirit.*+

11 He then made darkness his concealment place,+

All around him as his booth,

Dark waters,* thick clouds.+

12 Out of the brightness in front of him there were his clouds that passed by,+

Hail and burning coals of fire.+

13 And in the heavens Jehovah began to thunder,+

And the Most High himself began to give his voice,+

Hail and burning coals of fire.

14 And he kept sending out his arrows, that he might scatter them;+

And lightnings he shot out, that he might throw them into confusion.+

15 And the streambeds of waters became visible,+

And the foundations of the productive land* became uncovered+

From your rebuke, O Jehovah, from the blast* of the breath* of your nostrils.*+

16 He was sending* from on high, he was taking me,+

He was drawing me out of great waters.+

17 He was delivering me from my strong enemy,+

And from those hating me; because they were stronger than I was.+

18 They kept confronting me in the day of my disaster,+

But Jehovah came to be as a support for me.+

19 And he proceeded to bring me out into a roomy place;+

He was rescuing me, because he had found delight in me.+

20 Jehovah rewards me according to my righteousness;+

According to the cleanness of my hands he repays me.+

21 For I have kept the ways of Jehovah,+

And I have not wickedly departed from my God.+

22 For all his judicial decisions are in front of me,+

And his statutes I shall not remove from myself.+

23 And I will prove myself faultless with him,+

And I shall keep myself from error on my part.+

24 And let Jehovah repay me according to my righteousness,+

According to the cleanness of my hands in front of his eyes.+

25 With someone loyal* you will act in loyalty;*+

With the faultless, able-bodied man you will deal faultlessly;+

26 With the one keeping clean you will show yourself clean;+

And with the crooked one you will show yourself tortuous;*+

27 Because the afflicted* people you yourself will save;+

But the haughty eyes you will abase.+

28 For you yourself will light my lamp, O Jehovah;+

My God* himself will make my darkness shine.+

29 For by you I can run against a marauder band;+

And by my God I can climb a wall.+

30 As for the [true] God, perfect is his way;+

The saying of Jehovah* is a refined one.+

A shield he is to all those taking refuge in him.+

31 For who is a God* besides Jehovah?*+

And who is a rock except our God?*+

32 The [true] God is the One girding me closely with vital energy,+

And he will grant my way to be perfect,+

33 Making my feet like those of the hinds,+

And upon places high for me he keeps me standing.+

34 He is teaching my hands for warfare,*+

And my arms have pressed down a bow of copper.+

35 And you will give me your shield of salvation,+

And your own right hand will sustain me,+

And your own humility will make me great.*+

36 You will make room large enough for my steps under me,+

And my ankles will certainly not wobble.+

37 I shall pursue my enemies and overtake them;

And I shall not return until they are exterminated.+

38 I shall break them in pieces so that they will not be able to rise up;+

They will fall under my feet.+

39 And you will gird me with vital energy for warfare;

You will make those rising against me collapse under me.+

40 And as for my enemies, you will certainly give me the back of [their] neck;*+

And as for those hating me intensely, I shall silence them.+

41 They cry for help, but there is no savior,+

To Jehovah,* but he actually does not answer them.+

42 And I shall pound them fine like dust before the wind;+

Like the mire of the streets I shall pour them out.+

43 You will provide me escape from the faultfinding of the people.+

You will appoint me the head of the nations.+

A people that I have not known—they will serve me.+

44 At mere hearsay they will be obedient to me;+

Foreigners* themselves will come cringing to me.+

45 Foreigners themselves will fade away,

And they will come quaking out from their bulwarks.+

46 Jehovah* is living,+ and blessed be my Rock,+

And let the God of my salvation be exalted.+

47 The [true] God is the Giver of acts of vengeance to me;+

And he subdues the peoples under me.+

48 He is providing escape for me from my angry enemies;+

Above those who rise up against me you will lift me up,+

From the man of violence you will deliver me.+

49 That is why I shall laud you among the nations, O Jehovah,+

And to your name I will make melody.+

50 He is doing great acts of salvation for his king+

And exercising loving-kindness* to his anointed one,*+

To David and to his seed* to time indefinite.+