Chapter 17

¹ For the end, [a Psalm] of David the servant of the Lord; [the words] which he spoke to the Lord, [even] the words of this Song, in the day in which the Lord delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul: and he said:

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² I will love thee, O Lord, my strength.

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³ The Lord is my firm support, and my refuge, and my deliverer;

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⁴ I will call upon the Lord with praises,

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⁵ The pangs of death compassed me,

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⁶ The pangs of hell came round about me:

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⁷ And when I was afflicted I called upon the Lord,

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⁸ Then the earth shook and quaked,

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⁹ There went up a smoke in his wrath,

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¹⁰ And he bowed the heaven, and came down:

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¹¹ And he mounted on cherubs and flew:

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¹² And he made darkness his secret place:

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¹³ At the brightness before him the clouds passed,

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¹⁴ The Lord also thundered from heaven,

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¹⁵ And he sent forth [his] weapons, and scattered them;

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¹⁶ And the springs of waters appeared,

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¹⁷ He sent from on high and took me,

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¹⁸ He will deliver me from my mighty enemies,

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¹⁹ They prevented me in the day of mine affliction:

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²⁰ And he brought me out into a wide place:

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²¹ And the Lord will recompense me according to my righteousness;

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²² For I have kept the ways of the Lord

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²³ For all his judgments were before me,

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²⁴ And I shall be blameless with him,

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²⁵ And the Lord shall recompense me according to my righteousness,

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²⁶ With the holy thou wilt be holy;

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²⁷ And with the excellent [man] thou wilt be excellent;

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²⁸ For thou wilt save the lowly people,

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²⁹ For thou, O Lord, wilt light my lamp:

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³⁰ For by thee shall I be delivered from a troop;

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³¹ [As for] my God, his way is perfect:

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³² For who is God but the Lord?

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³³ [It is] God that girds me with strength,

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³⁴ Who strengthens my feet as hart’s feet,

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³⁵ He instructs my hands for war;

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³⁶ And thou hast made me secure in my salvation:

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³⁷ Thou hast made room for my goings under me,

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³⁸ I will pursue mine enemies, and overtake them;

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³⁹ I will dash them to pieces and they shall not be able to stand:

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⁴⁰ For thou hast girded me with strength for war:

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⁴¹ And thou hast made mine enemies turn their backs before me;

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⁴² They cried, but there was no deliverer:

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⁴³ I will grind them as the mud of the streets:

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⁴⁴ Deliver me from the gainsayings of the people:

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⁴⁵ At the hearing of the ear they obeyed me:

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⁴⁶ The strange children waxed old,

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⁴⁷ The Lord lives; and blessed [be] my God;

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⁴⁸ [It is] God that avenges me,

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⁴⁹ My deliverer from angry enemies:

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⁵⁰ Therefore will I confess to thee, O Lord, among the Gentiles,

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⁵¹ [God] magnifies the deliverances of his king;

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