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Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me.

Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.

They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.

Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.

For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.

And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.

I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them.

Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip.

Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great.

He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.

He maketh my feet like hinds" feet: and setteth me upon my high places.

God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect.

For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God?

As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him.

For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall.

For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.

And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.

With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.

With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.

Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.

I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity.

For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes, I did not depart from them.

For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.

He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.

He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;

And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.