For by thee I have run through a troop;
and by my God have I leaped over a wall.
As for God, his way is perfect:
the word of the LORD is tried:
he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.

For thou wilt save the afflicted people;
but wilt bring down high looks.
For thou wilt light my candle:
the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.

With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful;
with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;
With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure;
and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.

I was also upright before him,
and I kept myself from mine iniquity.
Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness,
according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.

For I have kept the ways of the LORD,
and have not wickedly departed from my God.
For all his judgments were before me,
and I did not put away his statutes from me.

He brought me forth also into a large place;
he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness;
according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

He delivered me from my strong enemy,
and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.
They prevented me in the day of my calamity:
but the LORD was my stay.

Then the channels of waters were seen,
and the foundations of the world were discovered
at thy rebuke, O LORD,
at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
He sent from above, he took me,
he drew me out of many waters.

The LORD also thundered in the heavens,
and the Highest gave his voice;
hail stones and coals of fire.
Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them;
and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.

He made darkness his secret place;
his pavilion round about him
were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed,
hail stones and coals of fire.