1Unto the end, for David, the servant of the Lord, who spoke to the Lord the words of this canticle, in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: and he said:stylus2I will love thee, O Lord, my strength:stylus3The Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my deliverer. My God is my helper, and in him will I put my trust. My protector, and the horn of my salvation, and my support.stylus4Praising, I will call upon the Lord: and I shall be saved from my enemies.stylus5The sorrows of death surrounded me: and the torrents of iniquity troubled me.stylus6The sorrows of hell encompassed me: and the snares of death prevented me.stylus7In my affliction I called upon the Lord, and I cried to my God: And he heard my voice from his holy temple: and my cry before him came into his ears.stylus8The earth shook and trembled: the foundations of the mountains were troubled and were moved, because he was angry with them.stylus9There went up a smoke in his wrath: and a fire flamed from his face: coals were kindled by it.stylus10He bowed the heavens, and came down, and darkness was under his feet.stylus11And he ascended upon the cherubim, and he flew; he flew upon the wings of the winds.stylus12And he made darkness his cover, his pavilion round about him: dark waters in the clouds of the air.stylus13At the brightness that was before him the clouds passed, hail and coals of fire.stylus14And the Lord thundered from heaven, and the Highest gave his voice: hail and coals of fire.stylus15And he sent forth his arrows, and he scattered them: he multiplied lightnings, and troubled them.stylus16Then the fountains of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were discovered: At thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the spirit of thy wrath.stylus17He sent from on high, and took me: and received me out of many waters.stylus18He delivered me from my strongest enemies, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.stylus19They prevented me in the day of my affliction: and the Lord became my protector.stylus20And he brought me forth into a large place: he saved me, because he was well pleased with me.stylus21And the Lord will reward me according to my justice; and will repay me according to the cleanness of my hands:stylus22Because I have kept the ways of the Lord; and have not done wickedly against my God.stylus23For all his judgments are in my sight: and his justices I have not put away from me.stylus24And I shall be spotless with him: and shall keep myself from my iniquity.stylus25And the Lord will reward me according to my justice: and according to the cleanness of my hands before his eyes.stylus26With the holy thou wilt be holy; and with the innocent man thou wilt be innocent:stylus27And with the elect thou wilt be elect: and with the perverse thou wilt be perverted.stylus28For thou wilt save the humble people; but wilt bring down the eyes of the proud.stylus29For thou lightest my lamp, O Lord: O my God, enlighten my darkness.stylus30For by thee I shall be delivered from temptation; and through my God I shall go over a wall.stylus31As for my God, his way is undefiled: the words of the Lord are fire-tried: he is the protector of all that trust in him.stylus32For who is God but the Lord? or who is God but our God?stylus33God, who hath girt me with strength; and made my way blameless.stylus34Who hath made my feet like the feet of harts: and who setteth me upon high places.stylus35Who teacheth my hands to war: and thou hast made my arms like a brazen bow.stylus36And thou hast given me the protection of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath held me up: And thy discipline hath corrected me unto the end: and thy discipline, the same shall teach me.stylus37Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; and my feet are not weakened.stylus38I will pursue after my enemies, and overtake them: and I will not turn again till they are consumed.stylus39I will break them, and they shall not be able to stand: they shall fall under my feet.stylus40And thou hast girded me with strength unto battle; and hast subdued under me them that rose up against me.stylus41And thou hast made my enemies turn their back upon me, and hast destroyed them that hated me.stylus42They cried, but there was none to save them, to the Lord: but he heard them not.stylus43And I shall beat them as small as the dust before the wind; I shall bring them to nought, like the dirt in the streets.stylus44Thou wilt deliver me from the contradictions of the people; thou wilt make me head of the Gentiles.stylus45A people which I knew not, hath served me: at the hearing of the ear they have obeyed me.stylus46The children that are strangers have lied to me, strange children have faded away, and have halted from their paths.stylus47The Lord liveth, and blessed be my God, and let the God of my salvation be exalted.stylus48O God, who avengest me, and subduest the people under me, my deliverer from my enraged enemies.stylus49And thou wilt lift me up above them that rise up against me: from the unjust man thou wilt deliver me.stylus50Therefore will I give glory to thee, O Lord, among the nations, and I will sing a psalm to thy name.stylus51Giving great deliverance to his king, and shewing mercy to David, his anointed: and to his seed for ever.stylus