Psalms 18:36-50

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,

⁴⁸who saved me from angry foes, and set me above my assailants, safe from the violent.

⁴⁹For this I will praise you amongst the nations, making music, O Lord, to your name:

⁵⁰for great triumphs he grants to his king, and faithful love he shows his anointed, to David and his seed evermore.