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Psalms 17
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1(18) For the end, [a Psalm] of David, the servant of the Lord; [the words] which he spoke to the Lord, [even] the words of this Song, in the day in which the Lord delivered him out the hand of all his enemies, and out the hand of Saul: and he said: I will love you, O Lord, my strength.
1For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of Yahweh, who spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said, I love you, Yahweh, my strength.
2The Lord is my firm support, and my refuge, and my deliverer; my God is my helper, I will hope in him; [he is] my defender, and the horn of my salvation, and my helper.
2Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
3I will call upon the Lord with praises, and I shall be saved from my enemies.
3I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised; and I am saved from my enemies.
4The pangs of death compassed me, and the torrents of ungodliness troubled me exceedingly.
4The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
5The pangs of hell came round about me: the snares of death prevented me.
5The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me.
6And when I was afflicted I called upon the Lord, and cried to my God: he heard my voice out of this holy temple, and my cry shall enter before him, [even] into his ears.
6In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.
7Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains were disturbed, and were shaken, because God was angry with them.
7Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.
8There went up a smoke in his wrath, and fire burst into a flame at his presence: coals were kindled at it.
8Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.
9And he bowed the heaven, and came down: and thick darkness was under his feet.
9He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.
10And he mounted on cherubs and flew: he flew on the wings of winds.
10He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.
11And he made darkness his secret place: round about him was his tabernacle, [even] dark water in the clouds of the air.
11He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
12At the brightness before him the clouds passed, hail and coals of fire.
12At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire.
13The Lord also thundered from heaven, and the Highest uttered his voice.
13Yahweh also thundered in the sky. The Most High uttered his voice: hailstones and coals of fire.
14And he sent forth [his] weapons, and scattered them; and multiplied lightnings, and routed them .
14He sent out his arrows, and scattered them. He routed them with great lightning bolts.
15And the springs of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed, at your rebuke, O Lord, at the blasting of the breath of your wrath.
15Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
16He sent from on high and took me, he drew me to himself out of many waters.
16He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.
17He will deliver me from my mighty enemies, and from them that hate me; for they are stronger than I.
17He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
18They prevented me in the day of my affliction: but the Lord was my stay against [them].
18They came on me in the day of my calamity, but Yahweh was my support.
19And he brought me out into a wide place: he will deliver me, because he has pleasure in me.
19He brought me out also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
20And the Lord will recompense me according to my righteousness; even according to the purity of my hands will he recompense me.
20Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands, he has recompensed me.
21For I have kept the way of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God.
21For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
22For all his judgments were before me, and his ordinances departed not from me.
22For all his ordinances were before me. I didn’t put away his statutes from me.
23And I shall be blameless with him, and shall keep myself from my iniquity.
23I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.
24And the Lord shall recompense me according to my righteousness, and according to the purity of my hands before his eyes.
24Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
25With the holy you will be holy; and with the innocent manyou will be innocent.
25With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.
26And with the excellent [man] you will be excellent; and with the perverse you will show frowardness.
26With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
27For you will save the lowly people, and will humble the eyes of the proud.
27For you will save the afflicted people, but the arrogant eyes you will bring down.
28For you, O Lord, will light my lamp: my God, you will lighten my darkness.
28For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.
29For by you shall I be delivered from a troop; and by my GodI will pass over a wall.
29For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall.
30[As for] my God, his way is perfect: the oracles of the Lord are tried in the fire; he is a protector of all them that hope in him.
30As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
31For who is God but the Lord? and who is a God except our God?
31For who is God, except Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God,
32[It is] God that girds me with strength, and has made my way blameless:
32the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?
33who strengthens my feet as hart's feet, and sets me upon high places.
33He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and sets me on my high places.
34He instructs my hands for war: and you have made my arms [as] a brazen bow .
34He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.
35And you have made me secure in my salvation: and your right hand has helped me, and your correction has upheld me to the end; yes, your correction itself shall instruct me.
35You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.
36You have made room for my goings under me, and by footsteps did not fail.
36You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.
37I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them; and I will not turn back until they are consumed.
37I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. I won’t turn away until they are consumed.
38I will dash them to pieces and they shall not be able to stand: they shall fall under my feet.
38I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet.
39For you have girded me with strength for war: you have beaten down under me all that rose up against me.
39For you have armed me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
40And you have made my enemies turn their backs before me; and you have destroyed them that hated me.
40You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.
41They cried, but there was no deliverer: [even] to the Lord, but he listened not to them.
41They cried, but there was no one to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.
42I will grind them as the mud of the streets: and I will beat them small as dust before the wind.
42Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets.
43Deliver me from the gain sayings of the people: you shall make me head of the Gentiles: a people whom I knew not served me,
43You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.
44at the hearing of the ear they obeyed me: the strange children lied to me.
44As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.
45The strange children waxed old, and fell away from their paths through lameness.
45The foreigners shall fade away, and shall come trembling out of their strongholds.
46The Lord lives; and blessed [be] my God; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.
46Yahweh lives! Blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my salvation,
47[It is] God that avenges me, and has subdued the nations under me;
47even the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues peoples under me.
48my deliverer from angry enemies: you shall set me on high above them that rise up against me: you shall deliver me from the unrighteous man.
48He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.
49Therefore will I confess to you, O Lord, among the Gentiles, and sing to your name.
49Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations, and will sing praises to your name.
50[God] magnifies the deliverances of his king; and deals mercifully with David his anointed, and his seed, for ever.
50He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his offspring, forever more.