Psalms 18:34-44

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.

⁴³Thou shalt deliver me from the against-sayings of the people; thou shalt set me into the head of folks. The people, which I knew not, hath served me;

⁴⁴in the hearing of ear it obeyed to me. Alien sons lied down to me,