Psalms 18:26-40

²⁶To anyone who is pure, you show yourself pure; but you are clever toward anyone who is twisted.

²⁷For you save afflicted people, but you bring down those with proud, uplifted eyes!

²⁸For you give light to my lamp; Yahweh my God lights up my darkness.

²⁹For by you I can run over a barricade; by my God I can leap over a wall.

³⁰As for God—his way is perfect! The word of Yahweh is pure! He is a shield to everyone who takes refuge in him.

³¹For who is God except Yahweh? Who is a rock except our God?

³²It is God who puts strength on me like a belt, who places the blameless person on his path.

³³He makes my feet swift like a deer and places me on the heights!

³⁴He trains my hands for war and my arms to bend a bow of bronze.

³⁵You have given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand has supported me, and your favor has made me great.

³⁶You have made a wide place for my feet beneath me so that my feet have not slipped.

³⁷I pursued my enemies and caught them; I did not turn back until they were destroyed.

³⁸I smashed them so that they were unable to rise; they have fallen under my feet.

³⁹For you put strength on me like a belt for battle; you put under me those who rise up against me.

⁴⁰You gave me the back of my enemies' necks; I annihilated those who hated me.