16 Heb “pushing, you pushed me.” The infinitive absolute emphasizes the following verbal idea. The psalmist appears to address the nations as if they were an individual enemy. Some find this problematic and emend the verb form (which is a Qal perfect second masculine singular with a first person singular suffix) to נִדְחֵיתִי (nidkheti), a Niphal perfect first common singular, “I was pushed.”
17 Heb “to fall,” i.e., “that [I] might fall.”
18 Heb “my strength and protection [is] the Lord.” The Hebrew term זִמְרָת (zimrat) is traditionally understood as meaning “song” (“my strength and song [is] the Lord”) in which case one might translate, “for the Lord gives me strength and joy” (i.e., a reason to sing). However, many recent commentators have argued that the noun זִמְרָת is here a homonym, meaning “protection” or “strength.” See ; cf. “The Lord is my refuge and defence”; “my strength and my might.”
19 Or “salvation.”
20 Heb “the sound of a ringing shout and deliverance [is] in the tents of the godly.”
21 Heb “does valiantly.” The statement refers here to military success (see Num 24:18; 1 Sam 14:48; Pss 60:12; 108:13).

In other versions

I was pushed hard, so that I was falling,

but the Lord helped me.

The Lord is my strength and my song;

he has become my salvation.

Glad songs of salvation

are in the tents of the righteous:

“The right hand of the Lord does valiantly,

I was pushed back and about to fall,

but the Lord helped me.

The Lord is my strength and my defense;

he has become my salvation.

Shouts of joy and victory

resound in the tents of the righteous:

“The Lord’s right hand has done mighty things!

They pushed me hard to make me fall,

but the Lord helped me.

The Lord is my strength and my song;

he has become my salvation.

There are shouts of joy and victory

in the tents of the righteous:

“The Lord’s right hand performs valiantly!

My enemies did their best to kill me,

but the Lord rescued me.

The Lord is my strength and my song;

he has given me victory.

Songs of joy and victory are sung in the camp of the godly.

The strong right arm of the Lord has done glorious things!

You pushed me hard to make me fall,

but Yahweh helped me.

Yah is my strength and my song,

and he has become my salvation.

The sound of rejoicing and salvation

is in the tents of the righteous;

the right hand of Yahweh has done valiantly.

Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall:

But the Lord helped me.

The Lord is my strength and song,

And is become my salvation.

The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous:

The right hand of the Lord doeth valiantly.

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