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\d A psalm written by God's servant David. He sang it after Yahweh had rescued him from Saul and his other enemies.
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\v 1 Yahweh, I love you, the one who enables me to be strong.
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\v 2 Yahweh is like a huge rock; when I am on top of it, my enemies cannot reach me. He is like a strong fortress; I run into it to be safe.
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\q1 He protects me like a shield protects a soldier; he is the one whom I trust to keep me safe; he defends me by his great power!
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\v 3 I called out to Yahweh, who deserves for me to praise him, and he rescued me from my enemies.
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\v 4 All around me were dangerous situations in which I might die; it was as though there were huge waves that almost crashed on me and killed me.
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\v 5 It was as though the place where dead people are had ropes that were wrapped around me, or it was as though there was a trap that would seize and kill me.
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\v 6 But when I was very distressed, I called out to Yahweh, and far off in his temple he heard me.
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\q1 He listened to me when I cried out for help.
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\v 7 Then Yahweh became angry, and the earth quaked, and the mountains shook to their very foundations!
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\v 8 He was so angry that it was as though smoke poured out from his nostrils, as though burning coals came out of his mouth!
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\v 9 He opened the sky and came down with a black cloud under his feet.
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\v 10 He flew, riding on the back of an angel traveling fast, which the wind was blowing along.
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\v 11 Darkness was all around him like a blanket; dark clouds, full of water moisture, covered him.
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\v 12 Hailstones and flashes of lightning were around him; hail and burning coals fell down from the sky.
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\v 13 Then Yahweh shouted loudly from the sky, and to his enemies, it sounded like thunder.
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\v 14 He shot his arrows at them and caused them to scatter; his flashes of lightning caused them to become very confused.
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\v 15 The bottom of the ocean became visible, and the water uncovered the foundations of the earth when Yahweh rebuked his enemies
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\q with the breath that came in his anger!
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\v 16 It was as though he reached down from heaven and grabbed me and pulled me up out of the deep ocean.
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\v 17 He rescued me from my strong enemies who hated me; they were very strong, and I could not defeat them by myself.
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\v 18 When I was distressed, they attacked me, but Yahweh defended me.
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\v 19 He made me completely safe; he rescued me because he was pleased with me.
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\v 20 Yahweh has rewarded me because I do what is right; he has blessed me because I am innocent.
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\v 21 I have obeyed Yahweh's laws; I have not abandoned him.
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\v 22 I have followed his decrees; I have not stopped obeying them.
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\v 23 He knows that I have not done what is wrong and that I have kept myself from sinning.
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\v 24 So he rewards me because I do what is right; he knows that I have not committed sins.
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\v 25 Yahweh, you are faithful to those who faithfully do your covenant; you always do what is good to those who do not do evil.
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\v 26 You are kind to those who are honest toward others, but you act wisely toward those who act dishonestly.
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\v 27 You save those who are humble, but you humiliate those who are proud.
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\v 28 You keep me alive, and you will continue to do so.
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\v 29 You enable me to be strong, so that I can attack and defeat a line of enemy soldiers; with your help I can scale the walls that surround my enemies' cities.
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\v 30 Everything that Yahweh my God does is perfect. We can depend on him to do what he promises.
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\q He is like a shield to protect all those who go to him to be safe.
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\v 31 Yahweh is the only one who is God; only he is like a huge rock on top of which we can be safe.
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\v 32 God is the one who enables me to be strong and who keeps me safe on the roads that I walk on.
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\v 33 He enables me to walk swiftly without stumbling as a deer walks in the mountains.
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\v 34 He teaches me how to use a strong bow in order that I can use it to fight in battles.
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\v 35 Yahweh, you protect and save me with your shield; you are strong and have therefore kept me safe. I have become strong because you have helped me.
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\v 36 You have made a safe path for me, with the result that now I do not slip.
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\v 37 I pursued my enemies and caught them; I did not stop until I had defeated them all.
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\v 38 When I strike them, they are not able to get up again; they lie on the ground, defeated.
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\v 39 You have enabled me to be strong in order that I can fight battles and defeat my enemies.
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\v 40 You delivered my enemies to me, for me to strike them on their necks. I have gotten rid of all those who hated me.
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\v 41 They shouted for someone to help them, but no one saved them. They shouted out to Yahweh, but he did not help them.
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\v 42 I crushed them to powder, and they became like the dust that the wind blows away; I threw them out like people throw dirt out into the streets.
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\v 43 You enabled me to defeat those who fought against me and appointed me to be the ruler of many nations; people whom I did not know about previously are now slaves in my kingdom.
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\v 44 When foreigners hear about me, they cringe and they obey me.
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\v 45 They are no longer courageous, and from their holes where they were hiding they come to me trembling.
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\v 46 Yahweh is alive! Praise the one who is like a huge rock on top of which I am safe! Exalt the God who saves me!
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\v 47 He enables me to get revenge on my enemies; he causes me to defeat nations and to rule over them,
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\v 48 and he rescues me from my enemies. He has lifted me up high so that violent men could not reach me and harm me.
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\v 49 So I praise him, and I tell the nations the great things that he has done.
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\v 50 He has enabled me, his king, to powerfully defeat my enemies; he faithfully loves me as he promised in his covenant.
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\q He loves me, David, the one he has chosen to be king, and he will faithfully love my descendants forever.
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