1 “I love You, O Lord, amy strength.”

2 The Lord is amy 1rock and bmy fortress and my cdeliverer,

My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge;

My dshield and the ehorn of my salvation, my fstronghold.

3 I call upon the Lord, who is aworthy to be praised,

And I am bsaved from my enemies.

4 The acords of death encompassed me,

And the btorrents of 1ungodliness 2terrified me.

5 The acords of 1Sheol surrounded me;

The snares of death confronted me.

6 In my adistress I called upon the Lord,

And cried to my God for help;

He heard my voice bout of His temple,

And my ccry for help before Him came into His ears.

7 Then the aearth shook and quaked;

And the bfoundations of the mountains were trembling

And were shaken, because He was angry.

8 Smoke went up 1out of His nostrils,

And afire from His mouth devoured;

Coals were kindled by it.

9 He abowed the heavens also, and came down

With thick bdarkness under His feet.

10 He rode upon a acherub and flew;

And He sped upon the bwings of the wind.

11 He made adarkness His hiding place, bHis 1canopy around Him,

Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

12 From the abrightness before Him passed His thick clouds,

Hailstones and bcoals of fire.

13 The Lord also athundered in the heavens,

And the Most High uttered His voice,

Hailstones and coals of fire.

14 He asent out His arrows, and scattered them,

And lightning flashes in abundance, and 1routed them.

15 Then the achannels of water appeared,

And the foundations of the world were 1laid bare

At Your brebuke, O Lord,

At the blast of the cbreath of Your nostrils.

16 He asent from on high, He took me;

He drew me out of bmany waters.

17 He adelivered me from my strong enemy,

And from those who hated me, for they were btoo mighty for me.

18 They confronted me in athe day of my calamity,

But bthe Lord was my stay.

19 He brought me forth also into a abroad place;

He rescued me, because bHe delighted in me.