³²“For who is God, but the Lord?

And who is a rock, except our God?

³³This God is my strong refuge

and has made my4 way blameless.5

³⁴He made my feet like the feet of a deer

and set me secure on the heights.

³⁵He trains my hands for war,

so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

³⁶You have given me the shield of your salvation,

and your gentleness made me great.

³⁷You gave a wide place for my steps under me,

and my feet6 did not slip;

³⁸I pursued my enemies and destroyed them,

and did not turn back until they were consumed.

³⁹I consumed them; I thrust them through, so that they did not rise;

they fell under my feet.

⁴⁰For you equipped me with strength for the battle;

you made those who rise against me sink under me.

⁴¹You made my enemies turn their backs to me,7

those who hated me, and I destroyed them.

⁴²They looked, but there was none to save;

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

⁴³I 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;8

you kept me as the head of the nations;

people whom I had not known served me.

⁴⁵Foreigners came cringing to me;

as soon as they heard of me, they obeyed me.

⁴⁶Foreigners lost heart

and came trembling9 out of their fortresses.

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

and exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation,

⁴⁸the God who gave me vengeance

and brought down peoples under me,

⁴⁹who brought me out from my enemies;

you exalted me above those who rose against me;

you delivered me from men of violence.

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

and sing praises to your name.

⁵¹Great salvation he brings10 to his king,

and shows steadfast love to his anointed,

to David and his offspring forever.”

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