²⁶ “With the loyal thou dost show thyself loyal;
    with the blameless man thou dost show thyself blameless;
²⁷ with the pure thou dost show thyself pure,
    and with the crooked thou dost show thyself perverse.
²⁸ Thou dost deliver a humble people,
    but thy eyes are upon the haughty to bring them down.
²⁹ Yea, thou art my lamp, O Lord,
    and my God lightens my darkness.
³⁰ Yea, by thee I can crush a troop,
    and by my God I can leap over a wall.
³¹ This God—his way is perfect;
    the promise of the Lord proves true;
    he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.

³² “For who is God, but the Lord?
    And who is a rock, except our God?
³³ This God is my strong refuge,
    and has made^[a] my^[b] way safe.
³⁴ He made my^[c] feet like hinds’ feet,
    and set me secure on the heights.
³⁵ He trains my hands for war,
    so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
³⁶ Thou hast given me the shield of thy salvation,
    and thy help^[d] made me great.
³⁷ Thou didst give a wide place for my steps under me,
    and my feet^[e] did not slip;
³⁸ I pursued my enemies and destroyed them,
    and did not turn back until they were consumed.
³⁹ I consumed them; I thrust them through, so that they did not rise;
    they fell under my feet.
⁴⁰ For thou didst gird me with strength for the battle;
    thou didst make my assailants sink under me.
⁴¹ Thou didst make my enemies turn their backs to me,
    those who hated me, and I destroyed them.
⁴² They looked, but there was none to save;
    they cried to the Lord, but he did not answer them.
⁴³ I beat them fine as the dust of the earth,
    I crushed them and stamped them down like the mire of the streets.

⁴⁴ “Thou didst deliver me from strife with the peoples;^[f]
    thou didst keep me as the head of the nations;
    people whom I had not known served me.
⁴⁵ Foreigners came cringing to me;
    as soon as they heard of me, they obeyed me.
⁴⁶ Foreigners lost heart,
    and came trembling^[g] out of their fastnesses.

⁴⁷ “The Lord lives; and blessed be my rock,
    and exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation,
⁴⁸ the God who gave me vengeance
    and brought down peoples under me,
⁴⁹ who brought me out from my enemies;
    thou didst exalt me above my adversaries,
    thou didst deliver me from men of violence.

⁵⁰ “For this I will extol thee, O Lord, among the nations,
    and sing praises to thy name.
⁵¹ Great triumphs he gives^[h] to his king,
    and shows steadfast love to his anointed,
    to David, and his descendants for ever.”