25 To the loyal you show yourself loyal.

To the blameless you show yourself blameless.

26 To the pure you show yourself pure.

but to the wicked you show yourself shrewd.

27 For you deliver humble people,

but haughty eyes you humiliate.

28 For you light my lamp;

Yahweh, my God, lights up my darkness.

29 For with you I can charge a troop,

and with my God I can scale a wall.

30 Thisg God—his way is blameless.

The word of Yahweh is flawless.h

He is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.

31 For who is God apart from Yahweh,

and who is a rock except our God?

32 The God who girded me with strength,

and made safei my way,

33 he made my feet like the deer’s,

and on my high places he makes me stand.

34 He trains my hands for war,

so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

35 You also gave me the shield of your salvation,

and your right hand supported me,

and your humility made me great.

36 You enlarged my step under me,

and my ankles did not slip.

37 I chased my enemies and overtook them;

I did not turn back until they were finished off.

38 I struck them and they were not able to stand up;

they fell under my feet.

39 And you girded me with strength for the battle;

those rising against me you made to kneel under me.

40 And you ⌊made my enemies turn their backs⌋,j

then I destroyed those who hated me.

41 They cried out but there was no rescuer,

even to Yahweh, but he did not answer them.

42 And I ground them like dust ⌊in the wind⌋,k

I emptied theml out like mud of the streets.

43 You rescued me from strife with people;

you set me as head (over) nations.

People I did not know served me;

44 as soon as ⌊they heard⌋,m they obeyed me.

The children of a foreign land feigned obedience before me.

45 The children of a foreign land ⌊lost heart⌋,n

and they came trembling from their strongholds.

46 Yahweh lives, and blessed be my rock,

and may the God of my salvation be exalted—

47 the God who executed vengeance for me,

and subdued peoples under me,

48 who delivered me from my enemies.

Indeed, you exalted me higher than those who rose against me.

You delivered me from the man of violence.

49 Therefore I will give thanks to you among the nations, O Yahweh,

and I will sing the praise of your name:

50 the one who makes great victories for his king,

and who shows loyal love for his anointed,

to David and to his descendants forever.