Psalms 18:30-47

³⁰As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the Lord is pure. He is shield to all who take refuge in him.

³¹For who is God but the Lord? And who is a rock but our God?

³²The God who arms me with strength, who cleared and smoothed my way.

³³He made my feet like hinds' feet, and set me up on the heights.

³⁴He taught my hands how to fight, and my arms how to bend a bronze bow.

³⁵The shield of your help you gave me, your right hand supports me, you stoop down to make me great.

³⁶In your strength I took giant strides, and my feet never slipped.

³⁷So I chased the foe till I caught them, and turned not, till I made an end of them.

³⁸I smashed them, they could not rise, they fell beneath my feet.

³⁹You did arm me with strength for war, you did bow my assailants beneath me.

⁴⁰You made my foes turn their back to me, and those who did hate me I finished.

⁴¹They cried for help, but none saved them; to the Lord, but he answered them not.

⁴²I beat them like dust of the market-place, stamped them like mud of the streets.

⁴³From the strife of the peoples you saved me, you made me head of the nations, peoples I knew not did serve me.

⁴⁴On the instant they hear, they obey me, foreigners come to me cringing.

⁴⁵Foreigners lose courage, and come out of their strongholds trembling.

⁴⁶The Lord is alive! Blest be my rock! Exalted be God, my protector!

⁴⁷The God who gave me revenge, and brought down nations beneath me,