1 I love you, O Lord my strength. ♦︎
The Lord is my crag, my fortress and my deliverer,
2 My God, my rock in whom I take refuge, ♦︎
my shield, the horn of my salvation and my stronghold.
3 I cried to the Lord in my anguish ♦︎
and I was saved from my enemies.
20 He brought me out into a place of liberty; ♦︎
he rescued me because he delighted in me.
21 The Lord rewarded me after my righteous dealing; ♦︎
according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me,
22 Because I had kept the ways of the Lord ♦︎
and had not gone wickedly away from my God,
23 For I had an eye to all his laws, ♦︎
and did not cast out his commandments from me.
24 I was also wholehearted before him ♦︎
and kept myself from iniquity;
25 Therefore the Lord rewarded me
after my righteous dealing, ♦︎
and according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.
26 With the faithful you show yourself faithful; ♦︎
with the true you show yourself true;
27 With the pure you show yourself pure, ♦︎
but with the crooked you show yourself perverse.
28 For you will save a lowly people ♦︎
and bring down the high looks of the proud.
29 You also shall light my candle; ♦︎
the Lord my God shall make my darkness to be bright.
30 By your help I shall run at an enemy host; ♦︎
with the help of my God I can leap over a wall.
31 As for God, his way is perfect;
the word of the Lord is tried in the fire; ♦︎
he is a shield to all who trust in him.
32 For who is God but the Lord, ♦︎
and who is the rock except our God?
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18 You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you;*
you forgot the God who gave you birth.
19 The Lord saw it, and was jealous;*
he spurned* his sons and daughters.
20 He said: I will hide my face from them,
I will see what their end will be;
for they are a perverse generation,
children in whom there is no faithfulness.
28 They are a nation void of sense;
there is no understanding in them.
29 If they were wise, they would understand this;
they would discern what the end would be.
30 How could one have routed a thousand,
and two put a myriad to flight,
unless their Rock had sold them,
the Lord had given them up?
31 Indeed their rock is not like our Rock;
our enemies are fools.*
32 Their vine comes from the vine-stock of Sodom,
from the vineyards of Gomorrah;
their grapes are grapes of poison,
their clusters are bitter;
33 their wine is the poison of serpents,
the cruel venom of asps.
34 Is not this laid up in store with me,
sealed up in my treasuries?
35 Vengeance is mine, and recompense,
for the time when their foot shall slip;
because the day of their calamity is at hand,
their doom comes swiftly.
36 Indeed the Lord will vindicate his people,
have compassion on his servants,
when he sees that their power is gone,
neither bond nor free remaining.
37 Then he will say: Where are their gods,
the rock in which they took refuge,
38 who ate the fat of their sacrifices,
and drank the wine of their libations?
Let them rise up and help you,
let them be your protection!
39 See now that I, even I, am he;
there is no god besides me.
I kill and I make alive;
I wound and I heal;
and no one can deliver from my hand.
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33 O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgements and how inscrutable his ways!
34 For who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has been his counsellor?
35 Or who has given a gift to him,
to receive a gift in return?
36For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever. Amen.
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