Psalms 18:26-42

²⁶And with a chosen man, thou shalt be chosen; and with a wayward man, thou shalt be wayward.

²⁷For thou shalt make safe a meek people; and thou shalt make meek the eyes of proud men.

²⁸For thou, Lord, lightenest my lantern; my God, lighten thou my darknesses.

²⁹For by thee I shall be delivered from temptation; and in my God I shall go over the wall.

³⁰My God, his way is undefouled; the speeches of the Lord be examined by fire; he is the defender of all men hoping in him.

³¹For why, who is God, except the Lord? either who is God, except our God?

³²God that hath girded me with virtue; and hath set my way unwem-med.

³³Which made perfect my feet as the feet of harts; and ordaining me on high things.

³⁴Which teacheth mine hands to battle; and thou hast set mine arms as a brazen bow.

³⁵And thou hast given to me the covering of thine health; and thy right hand hath up-taken me. And thy chastising amended me into the end; and that chastising of thee shall teach me.

³⁶Thou alargedest my paces under me; and my steps be not made un-steadfast.

³⁷I shall pursue mine enemies, and I shall take them; and I shall not turn till they fail.

³⁸I shall all-break them, and they shall not be able to stand; they shall fall under my feet.

³⁹And thou hast girded me with virtue to battle; and thou hast overturned under me men rising against me.

⁴⁰And thou hast given mine enemies aback or back to me; and thou hast destroyed them that hated me.

⁴¹They cried, and none there was that made them safe; they cried to the Lord, and he heard not them.

⁴²And I shall all-break them, as dust before the face of the wind; I shall do them away, as the clay of streets.