Psalms 18:14-25

¹⁴He shot his arrows and scattered them, flashed lightnings, and routed them.

¹⁵The channels of the sea were revealed, the world was laid bare to its base, at your rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.

¹⁶He stretched from on high, he seized me, drew me up from the mighty waters,

¹⁷and saved me from those who hated me — fierce foes, too mighty for me.

¹⁸In my day of distress they assailed me, but the Lord proved my support.

¹⁹To a spacious place he brought me, and, for love of me, he saved me.

²⁰The Lord repays my innocence, he rewards my cleanness of hands.

²¹For I kept the ways of the Lord, nor have wickedly strayed from my God.

²²His commandments were all before me, his statutes I put not away.

²³And I was blameless before him, guarding myself from sin.

²⁴So the Lord repaid my innocence, my cleanness of hands in his sight.

²⁵With the loyal you are loyal, and with the blameless blameless.