²¹For I have kept the ways of the Lord,
   and have not wickedly departed from my God.
²²For all his ordinances were before me,
   and his statutes I did not put away from me.
²³I was blameless before him,
   and I kept myself from guilt.
²⁴Therefore the Lord has recompensed me according to my righteousness,
   according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.

²⁵With the loyal you show yourself loyal;
   with the blameless you show yourself blameless;
²⁶with the pure you show yourself pure;
   and with the crooked you show yourself perverse.
²⁷For you deliver a humble people,
   but the haughty eyes you bring down.
²⁸It is you who light my lamp;
   the Lord, my God, lights up my darkness.
²⁹By you I can crush a troop,
   and by my God I can leap over a wall.
³⁰This God—his way is perfect;
   the promise of the Lord proves true;
   he is a shield for all who take refuge in him.

³¹For who is God except the Lord?
   And who is a rock besides our God?—
³²the God who girded me with strength,
   and made my way safe.
³³He made my feet like the feet of a deer,
   and set me secure on the heights.
³⁴He trains my hands for war,
   so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
³⁵You have given me the shield of your salvation,
   and your right hand has supported me;
   your help^* has made me great.
³⁶You gave me a wide place for my steps under me,
   and my feet did not slip.
³⁷I pursued my enemies and overtook them;
   and did not turn back until they were consumed.
³⁸I struck them down, so that they were not able to rise;
   they fell under my feet.
³⁹For you girded me with strength for the battle;
   you made my assailants sink under me.
⁴⁰You made my enemies turn their backs to me,
   and those who hated me I destroyed.
⁴¹They cried for help, but there was no one to save them;
   they cried to the Lord, but he did not answer them.
⁴²I beat them fine, like dust before the wind;
   I cast them out like the mire of the streets.

⁴³You delivered me from strife with the peoples;^*
   you made me head of the nations;
   people whom I had not known served me.
⁴⁴As soon as they heard of me they obeyed me;
   foreigners came cringing to me.
⁴⁵Foreigners lost heart,
   and came trembling out of their strongholds.

⁴⁶The Lord lives! Blessed be my rock,
   and exalted be the God of my salvation,
⁴⁷the God who gave me vengeance
   and subdued peoples under me;
⁴⁸who delivered me from my enemies;
   indeed, you exalted me above my adversaries;
   you delivered me from the violent.

⁴⁹For this I will extol you, O Lord, among the nations,
   and sing praises to your name.
⁵⁰Great triumphs he gives to his king,
   and shows steadfast love to his anointed,
   to David and his descendants for ever.