Psalms 17:1-10

¹(18) 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 the hand of all his enemies, and out the hand of Saul: and he said: I will love you, O Lord, my strength.

²The Lord is my firm support, and my refuge, and my deliverer; my God is my helper, I will hope in him; he is my defender, and the horn of my salvation, and my helper.

³I will call upon the Lord with praises, and I shall be saved from my enemies.

⁴The pangs of death compassed me, and the torrents of ungodliness troubled me exceedingly.

⁵The pangs of hell came round about me: the snares of death prevented me.

⁶And when I was afflicted I called upon the Lord, and cried to my God: he heard my voice out of this holy temple, and my cry shall enter before him, even into his ears.

⁷Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains were disturbed, and were shaken, because God was angry with them.

⁸There went up a smoke in his wrath, and fire burst into a flame at his presence: coals were kindled at it.

⁹And he bowed the heaven, and came down: and thick darkness was under his feet.

¹⁰And he mounted on cherubs and flew: he flew on the wings of winds.