The Lord Is My Rock and My Fortress

[Verse 1] I will love thee, O LORD, my strength. [Verse 2] The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. [Verse 3] I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.  [Verse 4] The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.  [Verse 5] The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me. [Verse 6] In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears. [Verse 7] Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth. [Verse 8] There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.  [Verse 9] He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.  [Verse 10] And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.  [Verse 11] He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.  [Verse 12] At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.  [Verse 13] The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.  [Verse 14] Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them. [Verse 15] 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. [Verse 16] He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters. [Verse 17] He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.  [Verse 18] They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay. [Verse 19] He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.  [Verse 20] The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. [Verse 21] For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God. [Verse 22] For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me. [Verse 23] I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity. [Verse 24] Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight. [Verse 25] With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright; [Verse 26] With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.  [Verse 27] For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks. [Verse 28] For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness. [Verse 29] For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall. [Verse 30] 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.  [Verse 31] For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God? [Verse 31] For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God? [Verse 32] [Verse 32] It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect. [Verse 33] He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places. [Verse 34] He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms. [Verse 35] Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great. [Verse 36] Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip. [Verse 37] I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.  [Verse 38] I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet. [Verse 39] For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me. [Verse 40] Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me. [Verse 41] They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.  [Verse 42] Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.  [Verse 43] Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me. [Verse 44] As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.  [Verse 45] The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places. [Verse 46] The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted. [Verse 47] It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me. [Verse 48] He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man. [Verse 49] Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name.  [Outro] Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore. [Instruments Fade out]