26  “With the merciful you show yourself merciful;

with the blameless man you show yourself blameless;

27  with the purified you deal purely,

and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.

28  You save a humble people,

but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.

29  For ^xyou 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  ^yThis God—his way is perfect;

the word 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 ^zwho is a rock, except our God?

33  This God is my strong refuge

and has made my¹ way blameless.²

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

and set me secure on the heights.

35  ^bHe 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  You gave a wide place for my steps under me,

and my feet³ did not ^cslip;

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 you ^dequipped me with strength for the battle;

you made those who rise against me sink under me.

41  You made my enemies turn their backs to me,⁴

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  “You delivered me from strife with my people;⁵

you kept 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 trembling⁶ out of their fortresses.

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

and exalted be my God, the ^erock 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 those who rose against me;

you delivered me from men of violence.

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

and sing praises to your name.

51  Great ^hsalvation he brings⁷ to his king,

and shows ⁱsteadfast love to ^jhis anointed,

to David and his offspring ^kforever.”