¹ Then he said:
I love you, O Lord, my strength.
² The Lord is my rocky cliff, my stronghold, and my deliverer.
My God is my rock. I take refuge in him.
He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my high fortress.
³ I call to the Lord, who is worthy of praise,
and I am saved from my enemies.

⁴ The ropes of death entangled me.
Floodwaters of destruction ^[1] rolled over me.
⁵ The ropes of the grave wrapped around me.
The traps of death threatened me.
⁶ In my distress I called to the Lord.
To my God I cried out.
He heard my voice from his temple.
My cry came before him. It reached his ears.

⁷ Then the earth shook and quaked,
and the foundations of the mountains ^[2] trembled.
They shook because the Lord was angry.
⁸ Smoke rose from his nostrils,
and fire from his mouth devoured.
Coals were set on fire by it.
⁹ Then he tore open the heavens and came down.
A dark cloud was under his feet.
¹⁰ He rode upon a cherub, ^[3] and he flew.
He soared on the wings of the wind.
¹¹ He made the darkness around him his hiding place.
Dark rain clouds ^[4] surrounded him like a canopy.
¹² Emerging from the brightness in front of him
    his clouds passed by with hail and coals of fire.
¹³ Then the Lord thundered in the heavens.
The Most High raised his voice with hail and coals of fire. ^[5]
14 Then he shot his arrows and scattered the enemy.
He shot great lightning bolts and routed them.
¹⁵ Then the sources of water ^[6] were revealed,
and the foundations of the world were uncovered
    by your rebuke, O Lord,
    by the breath of wind from your nostrils.
¹⁶ He reached down from on high and took hold of me.
He drew me out of deep waters.
¹⁷ Because they were too strong for me,
he rescued me from my powerful enemy,
from those who hate me.
¹⁸ They confronted me on the day of my disaster,
but the Lord supported me.
¹⁹ Then he brought me out into a wide-open space.
He rescued me because he delighted in me.

²⁰ The Lord has dealt with me according to my righteousness.
According to the cleanness of my hands he has repaid me,
²¹ for I have kept the ways of the Lord.
I have not done evil and departed from my God.
²² So all his just decrees remain before me,
and I have not turned his statutes away from me.
²³ I have been blameless with him.
I have kept myself from guilt.
²⁴ The Lord has repaid me according to my righteousness,
according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.

²⁵ To the merciful you reveal yourself as merciful.
To the blameless person you reveal yourself as blameless.
²⁶ To the pure you reveal yourself as pure,
but to the crooked you reveal yourself as crafty.
²⁷ For you save humble people,
but you bring low the eyes of the arrogant.
²⁸ Yes, you light my lamp, O Lord.
My God turns my darkness to light.
²⁹ For with you I can charge against a battalion,
and with my God I can jump over a wall.

³⁰ This God—his way is blameless.
The speech of the Lord is pure.
He is a shield for all who take refuge in him.