Psalms 18:17-31

¹⁷He delivered me from my strong enemy; From my adversaries, who were too powerful for me.

¹⁸They fell upon me in the day of my calamity; But the LORD was my stay.

¹⁹He brought me forth into a large place; He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

²⁰The LORD hath rewarded me according to my righteous; According to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

²¹For I have kept the ways of the LORD, And have not wickedly departed from my God.

²²For all his laws were in my sight; I did not put away his statutes from me.

²³I was upright before him, And kept myself from iniquity.

²⁴Therefore hath the LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands before his eyes.

²⁵To the merciful thou showest thyself merciful; To the upright thou showest thyself upright;

²⁶To the pure thou showest thyself pure, And to the perverse thou showest thyself perverse.

²⁷For thou savest the afflicted people, But the haughty countenance thou bringest down.

²⁸Thou causest my lamp to shine; Jehovah, my God, enlighteneth my darkness.

²⁹For through thee I have broken through troops; Through my God I have leaped over walls.

³⁰The ways of God are just and true; His word is pure, tried in the fire; He is a shield to all who put their trust in him.

³¹Who, then, is God, save Jehovah? And who is a rock, save our God?