20 Jehovah treated me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands He returned [recompense] to me. 21 For I kept the ways of Jehovah, And did not part myself by sin from my God. 22 For all His judgments were before me, And His statutes did I not put away from me. 23 And I was without fault with Him, And I kept myself from my iniquity. 24 Therefore Jehovah returned [recompense] to me according to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands before His eyes. 25 With the gracious man Thou showest Thyself gracious; With the faultless man Thou showest Thyself faultless. 26 With him who purifies himself Thou showest Thyself pure, And with the perverse Thou showest Thyself froward. 27 For Thou savest humbled people, And eyes uplifted Thou dost bring low. 28 For Thou lightest my lamp; Jehovah my God brightens my darkness. 29 For by Thee I run down a troop, And through my God I spring over a rampart. 30 As for God, His way is faultless; The word of Jehovah is tried (as by fire): A shield is He to all who take refuge in Him. 31 For who is God but Jehovah, And who is a rock besides our God? 32 [It is] God who girded me with strength, And made my way faultless; 33 Who made my feet like hinds' [feet], And made me stand upon my high places; 34 Who schooled my hands for war, So that my arms bend a bow of brass. 35 And Thou didst give me the shield of Thy salvation, And Thy right hand upheld me, And Thy humility made me great. 36 Thou didst broaden under me [a path for] my step, And my ankles did not give. 37 I pursued my enemies, and overtook them; And I did not turn till I had consumed them. 38 I shattered them, and they could not rise; They fell beneath my feet. 39 And Thou girdedst me with might for battle; Thou didst bring my assailants to their knees under me. 40 And my enemies Thou madest to turn their backs to me, And my haters--I annihilated them. 41 They shrieked, and there was no helper, To Jehovah, and He answered them not. 42 I pounded them like dust before the wind; Like street mud I emptied them out. 43 Thou didst deliver me from the strifes of the people; Thou didst set me for a head of the nations; A people whom I knew not served me. 44 At the hearing of the ear they made themselves obedient to me; The children of the foreigner came feigning to me. 45 The children of the foreigner faded away, And came trembling from their strongholds.