26 (A)“With the merciful you show yourself merciful;
    with the (B)blameless man you show yourself blameless;
27 with the purified you deal purely,
    and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.
28 (C)You save a humble people,
    (D)but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.
29 (E)For you are my lamp, O Lord,
    and my God lightens my darkness.
30 For by you I can run against a troop,
    and by my God I can leap over a wall.
31 This God—(F)his way is perfect;
    the (G)word of the Lord proves true;
    he is (H)a shield for all those who take refuge in him.

32 “For who is God, but the Lord?
    (I)And who is a rock, except our God?
33 This God is my (J)strong refuge
    and has made my[a] way blameless.[b]
34 (K)He made my feet like the feet of a deer
    and set me secure (L)on the heights.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 22:33 Or his; also verse 34
  2. 2 Samuel 22:33 Compare Psalm 18:32; Hebrew he has blamelessly set my way free, or he has made my way spring up blamelessly

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