018:024 Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight. 018:025 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect. 018:026 With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd. 018:027 For you will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes you will bring down. 018:028 For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness. 018:029 For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall. 018:030 As for God, his way is perfect. The word of Yahweh is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him. 018:031 For who is God, except Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God, 018:032 the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect? 018:033 He makes my feet like deer's feet, and sets me on my high places. 018:034 He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze. 018:035 You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great. 018:036 You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped. 018:037 I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. Neither will I turn again until they are consumed. 018:038 I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet. 018:039 For you have girded me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me. 018:040 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me. 018:041 They cried, but there was none to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn't answer them. 018:042 Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets. 018:043 You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me. 018:044 As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me. 018:045 The foreigners shall fade away, and shall come trembling out of their close places. 018:046 Yahweh lives; and blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my salvation, 018:047 even the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues peoples under me. 018:048 He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man. 018:049 Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations, and will sing praises to your name. 018:050 He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his seed, forevermore. 019:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.>> The heavens declare the glory of God.