^b“The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer,

3  ^cmy¹ God, my rock, ^din whom I take refuge,

^emy shield, and ^fthe horn of my salvation,

^gmy stronghold and ^hmy refuge,

my savior; you save me from violence.

4  I call upon the Lord, who is ⁱworthy to be praised,

and I am saved from my enemies.

5  ^j“For the waves of death encompassed me,

the torrents of destruction assailed me;²

6  ^kthe cords of Sheol entangled me;

the snares of death confronted me.

7  ^l“In my distress I called upon the Lord;

to my God I called.

From his temple he heard my voice,

and my cry ^mcame to his ears.

8  “Then ⁿthe earth reeled and rocked;

^othe foundations of the heavens trembled

and quaked, because he was angry.

9  Smoke went up from his nostrils,³

and devouring fire from his mouth;

^pglowing coals flamed forth from him.

10  ^qHe bowed the heavens and ^rcame down;

^sthick darkness was under his feet.

11  He rode on a cherub and flew;

he was seen on ^tthe wings of the wind.

12  He made ^sdarkness around him ^uhis canopy,

thick clouds, a gathering of water.

13  Out of the brightness before him

^vcoals of fire flamed forth.

14  ^wThe Lord thundered from heaven,

and the Most High uttered his voice.

15  And he sent out ^xarrows and scattered them;

lightning, and routed them.

16  Then the channels of the sea were seen;

the foundations of the world were laid bare,

at the rebuke of the Lord,

at the ^yblast of the breath of his nostrils.

17  ^z“He sent from on high, he took me;

he drew me out of many waters.

18  He rescued me from my strong enemy,

from those who hated me,

for they were too mighty for me.

19  They confronted me in the day of my calamity,

but the Lord was my support.

20  ^aHe brought me out into a broad place;

he rescued me, because ^bhe delighted in me.

21  “The Lord ^cdealt with me according to my righteousness;

according to the ^dcleanness of my hands he rewarded me.

22  ^eFor I have kept the ways of the Lord

and have not wickedly departed from my God.

23  ^fFor all his rules were before me,

and from his statutes I did not turn aside.

24  I was ^gblameless before him,

and I kept myself from guilt.

25  ^dAnd the Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness,

according to my cleanness in his sight.

26  ^h“With the merciful you show yourself merciful;

with the ^gblameless man you show yourself blameless;

27  with the purified you deal purely,

and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.

28  ⁱYou save a humble people,

^jbut your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.

29  ^kFor 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—^lhis way is perfect;

the ^mword of the Lord proves true;

he is ⁿa shield for all those who take refuge in him.

32  “For who is God, but the Lord?

^oAnd who is a rock, except our God?

33  This God is my ^pstrong refuge

and has made my⁴ way blameless.⁵

34  ^qHe made my feet like the feet of a deer

and set me secure ^ron the heights.

35  ^sHe trains my hands for war,

so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

36  You have given me the shield of your salvation,

and your gentleness made me great.

37  ^tYou gave a wide place for my steps under me,

and my feet⁶ 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 ^uunder my feet.

40  For you equipped me with strength for the battle;

you made ^vthose who rise against me sink under me.

41  You ^wmade my enemies turn their backs to me,⁷

those who hated me, and I destroyed them.

42  They looked, but there was none to save;

they cried to the Lord, but ^xhe did not answer them.

43  I beat them fine ^yas the dust of the earth;

I crushed them and stamped them down ^zlike the mire of the streets.

44  “You delivered me from strife with my people;⁸

you kept me as the head of ^athe nations;

^bpeople 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^{9 c}out of their fortresses.

47  “The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock,

and exalted be ^dmy God, ^ethe rock of my salvation,

48  the God who gave me vengeance

and ^fbrought down peoples under me,

49  who brought me out from my enemies;

you exalted me above ^vthose who rose against me;

you delivered me from ^gmen of violence.

50  ^h“For this I will praise you, O Lord, among the nations,

and sing praises to your name.

51  ⁱGreat salvation he brings¹⁰ to his king,

and shows steadfast love to ^jhis anointed,

to David and his offspring ^kforever.”

^o“Behold, I am against you,

Pharaoh king of Egypt,

^pthe great dragon that lies

in the midst of his streams,

^qthat says, ‘My Nile is my own;

I made it for myself.’

4  I will ^rput hooks in your jaws,

and make the fish of your streams stick to your scales;

and I will draw you up out of the midst of your streams,

with all the fish of your streams

that stick to your scales.

5  ^sAnd I will cast you out into the wilderness,

you and all the fish of your streams;

you shall fall ^ton the open field,

and ^unot be brought together or gathered.

To the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the heavens

^sI give you as food.

1  ⁱGive ear, O my people, to my teaching;

incline your ears to the words of my mouth!

2  ^jI will open my mouth ^kin a parable;

I will utter dark sayings from of old,

3  things that we have heard and known,

that our ^lfathers have told us.

4  We will not ^mhide them from their children,

but ⁿtell to the coming generation

the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might,

and ^othe wonders that he has done.

5  He established ^pa testimony in ^qJacob

and appointed a law in ^qIsrael,

which he commanded our fathers

to teach to their children,

6  that ^rthe next generation might know them,

the children yet unborn,

and arise and tell them to their children,

7  so that they should set their hope in God

and not forget ^sthe works of God,

but ^tkeep his commandments;

8  and that they should not be ^ulike their fathers,

^va stubborn and rebellious generation,

a generation ^wwhose heart was not steadfast,

whose spirit was not faithful to God.

9  The Ephraimites, armed with² the bow,

^xturned back on the day of battle.

10  They ^ydid not keep God’s covenant,

but refused to walk according to his law.

11  They ^zforgot his works

and ^athe wonders that he had shown them.

12  In the sight of their fathers ^bhe performed wonders

in the land of Egypt, in ^cthe fields of Zoan.

13  He ^ddivided the sea and let them pass through it,

and made the waters ^estand like a heap.

14  ^fIn the daytime he led them with a cloud,

and all the night with a fiery light.

15  He ^gsplit rocks in the wilderness

and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.

16  He made streams come out of ^hthe rock

and caused waters to flow down like rivers.

17  Yet they sinned still more against him,

ⁱrebelling against the Most High in the desert.

18  They ^jtested God in their heart

by demanding the food they craved.

19  They spoke against God, saying,

^k“Can God ^lspread a table in the wilderness?

20  ^mHe struck the rock so that water gushed out

and streams overflowed.

Can he also give bread

or provide meat for his people?”

21  Therefore, when the Lord heard, he was full of wrath;

ⁿa fire was kindled against Jacob;

his anger rose against Israel,

22  because they ^odid not believe in God

and did not trust his saving power.

23  Yet he commanded the skies above

and ^popened the doors of heaven,

24  and he ^qrained down on them manna to eat

and gave them ^rthe grain of heaven.

25  Man ate of the bread of ^sthe angels;

he sent them food ^tin abundance.

26  He ^ucaused the east wind to blow in the heavens,

and by his power he led out the south wind;

27  he rained meat on them like ^vdust,

winged birds like ^wthe sand of the seas;

28  he ^xlet them fall in the midst of their camp,

all around their dwellings.

29  And they ^yate and were well filled,

for he gave them what they ^zcraved.

30  But before they had satisfied their craving,

^awhile the food was still in their mouths,

31  the anger of God rose against them,

and he killed ^bthe strongest of them

and laid low ^cthe young men of Israel.

32  In spite of all this, they ^dstill sinned;

^edespite his wonders, they did not believe.

33  So he made ^ftheir days ^gvanish like³ a breath,⁴

and their years in terror.

34  When he killed them, they ^hsought him;

they repented and sought God earnestly.

35  They remembered that God was their ⁱrock,

the Most High God their ^jredeemer.

36  But they ^kflattered him with their mouths;

they ^llied to him with their tongues.

37  Their ^mheart was not ⁿsteadfast toward him;

they were not faithful to his covenant.