¹And David spoke the words of this song to the Lord on the day when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from Saul's hand. ²And he said,

“The Lord is my rock and my fortress,

And my deliverer,

³The God of my rock;

I will put my trust in him

– My shield and the horn of my salvation,

My high stronghold and my refuge,

My saviour.

You save me from violence.

⁴I will call on the praiseworthy Lord,

And I will be saved from my enemies.

⁵For the breaker-waves of death surrounded me,

And the onslaughts of the reprobate alarmed me,

⁶The tightening grip of the grave encompassed me;

Deadly snares confronted me.

⁷When I was in a strait,

I called on the Lord,

And I called to my God,

And he heard my voice from his temple,

And my cry reached his ears.

⁸And the earth shook and trembled;

The foundations of heaven quaked and shook,

Because he was furious.

⁹Smoke went up in his nostrils,

And fire from his mouth came devouring;

Coals were kindled by him.

¹⁰And he stretched out the heavens and descended,

And thick darkness was under his feet.

¹¹And he rode on a cherub and flew

And was seen on the wings of the wind.

¹²And he set darkness around him as canopies;

There were accumulations of water

And thick clouds of the upper skies.

¹³At the brightness ahead of him

Were fiery coals blazing away.

¹⁴The Lord thunders from heaven,

And the Most High sounds his voice.

¹⁵And he sent his arrows,

And he scattered them,

And lightning,

And he routed them.

¹⁶Then channels of the sea appeared;

The foundations of the world were revealed

At the Lord's rebuke

– At the blast of the wind from his nostrils.

¹⁷He sent help from on high,

And he took hold of me;

He drew me out of great waters.

¹⁸He delivered me from my strong enemy

– From those who hate me –

For they were stronger than I was.

¹⁹They confronted me on my day of distress,

But the Lord became a support for me,

²⁰And he brought me out into a wide place;

He delivered me

Because he delighted in me.

²¹The Lord recompensed me

According to my righteousness;

According to the cleanness of my hands

He rewarded me.

²²For I have kept the ways of the Lord,

And I have not committed wickedness against my God.

²³For all his injunctions were before me,

And I did not depart from any of his statutes.

²⁴And I was perfect towards him,

And I kept myself from iniquity.

²⁵And the Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness

– According to my cleanness

Before his eyes.

²⁶With the kind, you will act kindly;

With the perfect warrior, you will act in perfection.

²⁷With the pure, you will act in purity,

But with the perverse, you will act in a convoluted way.

²⁸And you will save an afflicted people,

But your eyes are against those who are haughty;

You bring them low.

²⁹For you, O Lord, are my lamp,

And the Lord brightens my darkness.

³⁰For through you, I can run through a battalion;

Through my God I can leap over a wall.

³¹As for God, his way is perfect.

The word of the Lord has been refined.

He is a shield to all who trust in him.

³²For who is God

Apart from the Lord?

And who is a rock

Apart from our God?

³³God is my mighty fortress,

Who directs my perfect way,

³⁴Who makes my feet like those of hinds,

And stands me on my heights;

³⁵Who teaches my hands the skills of war,

So a copper bow can be drawn by my arms.

³⁶And you gave me the shield of your salvation,

Whilst your action makes me great.

³⁷You enlarged my step under me,

And my ankles did not slip.

³⁸I pursued my enemies

And destroyed them,

And I did not return

Until I had made an end of them.

³⁹And I consumed them, and I crushed them,

So that they could not get up,

And they fell under my feet.

⁴⁰And you girded me with valour for war;

You brought down my opponents under me.

⁴¹And you gave me the neck of my enemies

– Those who hate me –

And I cut them down.

⁴²They looked,

But there was no saviour;

They looked to the Lord,

But he did not answer them.

⁴³And I pulverized them like the dust of the ground,

I ground them fine like the filth of the streets;

I trod them under foot.

⁴⁴And you delivered me from the contentions of my people;

You kept me at the head of nations.

A people that I did not know

Will serve me.

⁴⁵Foreigners will feign obedience to me.

At bidding coming to their ears,

They will be obedient to me.

⁴⁶Foreigners will fade away;

They will be wrenched out of their confines.

⁴⁷How the Lord lives,

And my rock is blessed,

And the God of the rock of my salvation is exalted

⁴⁸– The God who gives me vengeance,

And who subjugates various peoples under me,

⁴⁹And who extricates me from my enemies.

You also raise me up above those who rise up against me;

You rescue me from the man of violence.

⁵⁰That is why I will praise you,

O Lord, among the nations,

And I will sing psalms to your name.

⁵¹He magnifies acts of salvation of his king,

Also showing kindness to his anointed

– To David and to his seed,

Age-abidingly.”

Reference(s) in Chapter 22: v.3 ↔ Hebrews 2:13 ● v.32 ↔ Mark 12:32 ● v.50 ↔ Romans 15:9.