26 With the loyal, you act as loyal,

and with the blameless, you show yourself blameless.

27 With the pure, you show yourself pure,

but with the crooked, you appear as a fool.

28 Humble people you will deliver,

but your eyes are on the haughty, whom you bring down.

29 For you, O Yahweh are my lamp,

and Yahweh lightens my darkness.

30 For by you I can run a raid;

by my God I can leap over a wall.

31 This God, his way is blameless;

the promise of Yahweh is flawless.

He is a shield to all who take refuge in him.

32 For who is God apart from Yahweh?

And who is a rock apart from our God?

33 God is my strong refuge,

he has fully opened my way.g

34 He makes my feeth like a doe deer,

and on my high places he has set me.

35 He trains my hands for the war,

so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

36 You have given me the shield of your salvation;

your willingness to help has made me great.

37 You have broadened my steps beneath me;

my ankles have not wobbled.

38 I pursued those who hate me, and I destroyed them.

I did not turn back until finishing them.

39 I wiped them out and I smashed them;

they did not get up; they fell under my feet.

40 You have girded me with physical strength for the battle;

you caused those who rose up against me to kneel under me.

41 ⌊My enemies you cause to retreat from me⌋;i

I destroy those who hate me.

42 They looked out, but there was no deliverer,

even to Yahweh, but he did not answer them.

43 I beat them fine, like the dust of the earth;

like the mire of the streets, I crushed them, I stamped them down.

44 You delivered me from the strife of my people;

you preserved me as the head of the nations.

A people I had not known served me.

45 Children of a foreign land came cringing to me;

⌊when they heard of me⌋,j they became obedient to me.

46 Children of a foreign land lost heart

and came trembling from their strongholds.

47 Yahweh lives! Blessed be my rock!

May God, the rock of my salvation, be exalted!

48 God does vengeance for me,

bringing down peoples under me.

49 He brings me out from my enemies,

and from those who rose up against me you lift me up,

and from men of violence you rescue me.

50 Therefore I will extol you, Yahweh, among the nations!

I will sing praises to your name!

51 He makes great salvation for his king

and shows loyal love to his anointed one, David

and to his descendants forever.”