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\d For the chief musician. A psalm of David, the servant of Yahweh, when he sang to Yahweh the words of this song on
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the day that Yahweh rescued him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. He sang:
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\v 1 I love you, Yahweh, my strength.
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\v 2 Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, the one who brings me to safety; he is my God, my rock; I take refuge in him.
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\q He is my shield, the horn of my salvation, and my stronghold.
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\v 3 I will call on Yahweh who is worthy to be praised, and I will be saved from my enemies.
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\v 4 The cords of death surrounded me, and the rushing waters of worthlessness overwhelmed me.
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\v 5 The cords of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of death trapped me.
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\v 6 In my distress I called to Yahweh; I called for help to my God. He heard my voice from his temple;
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\q my call for help went into his presence; it went into his ears.
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\v 7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of the mountains also trembled
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\q and were shaken because God was angry.
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\v 8 Smoke went up from out of his nostrils, and blazing fire came out of his mouth. Coals were ignited by it.
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\v 9 He opened the heavens and came down, and thick darkness was under his feet.
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\v 10 He rode on a cherub and flew; he glided on the wings of the wind.
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\v 11 He made darkness a tent around him, heavy rainclouds in the skies.
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\v 12 Hailstones and coals of fire fell from the lightning before him.
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\v 13 Yahweh thundered in the heavens! The voice of the Most High shouted.
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\f + \ft Some modern versions add after shouted, \fqa hailstones and coals of fire \fqa* this expression may be an accidental repetition from the previous verse. \f*
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\v 14 He shot his arrows and scattered his enemies; many lightning bolts dispersed them.
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\v 15 Then the water channels appeared; the foundations of the world were exposed at your battle cry, Yahweh—
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\q at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
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\v 16 He reached down from above; he took hold of me! He pulled me out of the surging water.
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\v 17 He rescued me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me, for they were too strong for me.
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\v 18 They came against me on the day of my distress but Yahweh was my support!
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\v 19 He set me free in a wide open place; he saved me because he was pleased with me.
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\v 20 Yahweh has rewarded me because of my righteousness; he has restored me because my hands were clean.
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\v 21 For I have kept the ways of Yahweh and have not wickedly turned away from my God.
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\v 22 For all his righteous decrees have been before me; as for his statutes, I have not turned away from them.
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\v 23 I have also been innocent before him, and I have kept myself from sin.
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\v 24 Therefore Yahweh has restored me because of my righteousness, because my hands were clean before his eyes.
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\v 25 To anyone who is faithful, you show yourself to be faithful;
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\q2 to a man who is blameless, you show yourself to be blameless.
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\v 26 To anyone who is pure, you show yourself pure; but you are clever toward anyone who is twisted.
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\v 27 For you save afflicted people, but you bring down those with proud, uplifted eyes!
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\v 28 For you give light to my lamp; Yahweh my God lights up my darkness.
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\v 29 For by you I can run over a barricade; by my God I can leap over a wall.
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\v 30 As for God—his way is perfect! The word of Yahweh is pure!
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\q He is a shield to everyone who takes refuge in him.
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\v 31 For who is God except Yahweh? Who is a rock except our God?
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\v 32 It is God who puts strength on me like a belt, who places the blameless person on his path.
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\v 33 He makes my feet swift like a deer and places me on the heights!
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\v 34 He trains my hands for war and my arms to bend a bow of bronze.
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\v 35 You have given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand has supported me, and your favor has made me great.
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\v 36 You have made a wide place for my feet beneath me so that my feet have not slipped.
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\v 37 I pursued my enemies and caught them; I did not turn back until they were destroyed.
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\v 38 I smashed them so that they were unable to rise; they have fallen under my feet.
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\v 39 For you put strength on me like a belt for battle; you put under me those who rise up against me.
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\v 40 You gave me the back of my enemies' necks; I annihilated those who hated me.
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\v 41 They called for help, but no one saved them; they called out to Yahweh, but he did not answer them.
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\v 42 I beat them into fine pieces like dust before the wind; I threw them out like mud in the streets.
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\v 43 You rescued me from the disputes of people. You have made me the head over nations. People that I have not known serve me.
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\v 44 As soon as they heard of me, they obeyed me; foreigners were forced to bow to me.
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\v 45 The foreigners came trembling out of their strongholds.
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\v 46 Yahweh lives; may my rock be praised. May the God of my salvation be exalted.
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\v 47 He is the God who executes vengeance for me, who subdues the nations under me.
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\v 48 I am set free from my enemies! Indeed, you lifted me above the ones who rose against me! You rescued me from violent men.
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\v 49 Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations; I will sing praises to your name!
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\v 50 God gives great victory to his king, and he shows his covenant loyalty to his anointed one, to David and to his descendants forever.
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