Verse 1. And David spoke to the Lord the words of this canticle, in the day that the Lord delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul,
Verse 2. And he said: The Lord is my rock, and my strength, and my saviour.
Verse 3. God is my strong one, in him will I trust: my shield, and the horn of my salvation: he lifteth me up, and is my refuge: my saviour, thou wilt deliver me from iniquity.
Verse 4. I will call on the Lord who is worthy to be praised: and I shall be saved from my enemies.
Verse 5. For the pangs of death have surrounded me: the floods of Belial have made me afraid.
Verse 6. The cords of hell compassed me: the snares of death prevented me.
Verse 7. In my distress I will call upon the Lord, and I will cry to my God: and he will hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry shall come to his ears.
Verse 8. The earth shook and trembled, the foundations of the mountains were moved, and shaken, because he was angry with them.
Verse 9. A smoke went up from his nostrils, and a devouring fire out of his mouth: coals were kindled by it.
Verse 10. He bowed the heavens, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
Verse 11. And he rode upon the cherubims, and flew: and slid upon the wings of the wind.
Verse 12. He made darkness a covering round about him: dropping waters out of the clouds of the heavens.
Verse 13. By the brightness before him, the coals of fire were kindled.
Verse 14. The Lord shall thunder from heaven: and the most high shall give forth his voice.
Verse 15. He shot arrows and scattered them: lightning, and consumed them.
Verse 16. And the overflowings of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were laid open at the rebuke of the Lord, at the blast of the spirit of his wrath.
Verse 17. He sent from on high, and took me, and drew me out of many waters.
Verse 18. He delivered me from my most mighty enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.
Verse 19. He prevented me in the day of my affliction, and the Lord became my stay.
Verse 20. And he brought me forth into a large place, he delivered me, because I pleased him.
Verse 21. The Lord will reward me according to my justice: and according to the cleanness of my hands he will render to me.
Verse 22. Because I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
Verse 23. For all his judgments are in my sight: and his precepts I have not removed from me.
Verse 24. And I shall be perfect with him: and shall keep myself from my iniquity.
Verse 25. And the Lord will recompense me according to my justice: and according to the cleanness of my hands in the sight of his eyes.
Verse 26. With the holy one thou wilt be holy: and with the valiant perfect.
Verse 27. With the elect thou wilt be elect: and with the perverse thou wilt be perverted.
Verse 28. And the poor people thou wilt save: and with thy eyes thou wilt humble the haughty.
Verse 29. For thou art my lamp, O Lord: and thou, O Lord, wilt enlighten my darkness.
Verse 30. For in thee I will run girded: in my God I will leap over the wall.
Verse 31. God, his way is immaculate, the word of the Lord is tried by fire: he is the shield of all that trust in him.
Verse 32. Who is God but the Lord: and who is strong but our God?
Verse 33. God who hath girded me with strength, and made my way perfect.
Verse 34. Making my feet like the feet of harts, and setting me upon my high places.
Verse 35. He teacheth my bands to war: and maketh my arms like a bow of brass.
Verse 36. Thou hast given me the shield of my salvation: and thy mildness hath multiplied me.
Verse 37. Thou shalt enlarge my steps under me: and my ankles shall not fail.
Verse 38. I will pursue after my enemies, and crush them: and will not return again till I consume them.
Verse 39. I will consume them and break them in pieces, so that they shall not rise: they shall fall under my feet.
Verse 40. Thou hast girded me with strength to battle: thou hast made them that resisted me to bow under me.
Verse 41. My enemies thou hast made to turn their back to me: them that hated me, and I shall destroy them.
Verse 42. They shall cry, and there shall be none to save: to the Lord, and he shall not hear them.
Verse 43. I shall beat them as small as the dust of the earth: I shall crush them and spread them abroad like the mire of the streets.
Verse 44. Thou wilt save me from the contradictions of my people: thou wilt keep me to be the head of the Gentiles: the people which I know not, shall serve me,
Verse 45. The sons of the stranger will resist me, at the hearing of the ear they will obey me.
Verse 46. The strangers are melted away, and shall be straitened in their distresses.
Verse 47. The Lord liveth, and my God is blessed: and the strong God of my salvation shall be exalted:
Verse 48. God who giveth me revenge, and bringest down people under me,
Verse 49. Who bringest me forth from my enemies, and liftest me up from them that resist me: from the wicked man thou shalt deliver me.
Verse 50. Therefore will I give thanks to thee. O Lord, among the Gentiles, and will sing to thy name.
Verse 51. Giving great salvation to his king, and shewing mercy to David his anointed, and to his seed for ever.