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.
I will call upon the LORD, _who is worthy_ to be praised: so shall I
be saved from mine enemies.
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made
me afraid.
The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented
me.
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.
Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills
moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth
devoured: coals were kindled by it.
He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness _was_ under his
feet.
And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings
of the wind.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.