Psalms 18:18-25

¹⁸They came on me in the day of my calamity, but Yahweh was my support.

¹⁹He brought me out also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

²⁰Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands, he has recompensed me.

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

²²For all his ordinances were before me. I didn’t put away his statutes from me.

²³I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.

²⁴Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.

²⁵With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.