भजनसंग्रह 78
1 मेरो मानिसहरू, मेरो उपदेशहरू ध्यान दिएर सुन। मैले भनेका कुराहरूमा ध्यान देऊ।
2 म तिमीहरूलाई यो कथा भन्ने छु। म तिमीहरूलाई यो पुरानो कथा भन्ने छु।
3 हामीले ती कथाहरू सुन्यौ, अनि हामी त्यो राम्रो प्रकारले जान्दछौ। हाम्रा पिता-पुर्खाहरूले यी कथाहरू सुनाए।
4 अनि हामी त्यो कथा भुल्ने छैनौं। हाम्रा मानिसहरूले पछि आउने सन्तानहरूलाई त्यो कथाहरू भन्ने नै छन्।हामी मिली परमप्रभुको प्रशंसा गर्नेछौ, अनि उहाँका अचम्म लाग्दा कार्यहरू सबैलाई भन्नेछौं।
5 परमप्रभुले याकूबसँग सम्झौता गर्नुभयो। परमेश्वरले इस्राएल लाई नियम दिनुभयो। परमेश्वरले हाम्रा पिता-पुर्खाहरूलाई आज्ञाहरू दिनुभयो। उहाँले हाम्रा पिता-पुर्खाहरूलाई भन्नुभयो कि ती नियमहरू बारे आफ्ना भावी सन्तानहरूलाई बताऊ।
6 अनि आउने भावि सन्तानहरुले पनि यो नियमको बारेमा जान्नेछन् र तिनीहरु आफ्ना नानीहरुलाई सिकाउन सक्षम हुनेछन्।
7 यसैकारण ती सबै मानिसहरूले परमेश्वरमाथि भरोसा गर्नेछन्। तिनीहरूले परमेश्वरका कार्यहरू भुल्ने छैनन्। तिनीहरूले परमेशवरको आज्ञानुसार उहाँको नियमहरू पालन गर्नेछन्।
8 यदि मानिसहरूले आफ्ना नानीहरूलाई परमेश्वरका आज्ञाहरूको विषयमा बताए भने नानीहरू तिनीहरूका पुर्खाहरू जस्तै हुने छैनन्। तिनीहरूका पिता-पुर्खाहरू परमेश्वरका विरूद्ध खडा भए। तिनीहरूले उहाँको आज्ञा पालन गर्न अस्वीकार गरे। ती मानिसहरू हठी थिए। तिनीहरू परमेश्वरको आत्मा प्रति विश्वासी थिएनन्।
9 एप्रैमबाट आएका मानिसहरूसँग हतियारहरू थिए, तर तिनीहरू युद्धभूमिबाट भागे।
10 तिनीहरूले परमेश्वरसँग गरेको करार पालन गरेनन्। तिनीहरूले उहाँका उपदेशहरू अस्वीकार गरे।
11 एप्रैमबाट आएका मानिसहरूले परमेश्वरले गर्नु भएको महान् कार्यहरू भूले। तिनीहरूले परमेश्वरले प्रदर्शन गर्नु भएको ती अचम्म लाग्दा कार्यहरू बिर्से।
12 परमेश्वरले तिनीहरूका पिता-पुर्खाहरूलाई मिश्र अन्तर्गत सोअनमा आफ्ना महान् शक्तिहरू देखाउनु भयो।
13 परमेश्वरले लाल समुद्रलाई फार्नु भयो अनि मानिसहरूलाई पार गराउनु भयो। पानी तिनीहरूका लागि दुवै तिर पक्का पर्खाल भएर उभिएको थियो।
14 प्रत्येक दिन परमेश्वरले तिनीहरूलाई अग्लो बादल सहित डोर्याउनु भयो। अनि प्रत्येक रातभरि आगोको ज्वाला वा राँको बालेर तिनीहरूलाई डोर्याउनु भयो।
15 परमेश्वरले चट्टानलाई मरूभूमिमा फोर्नु भयो।जमीनको भित्री तहबाट उहाँले मानिसहरूलाई पानी दिनुभयो।
16 परमेश्वरले पानीका झरनाहरू नदीहरू सरह चट्टानबाट ल्याउनु भयो!
17 तर मानिसहरूले उहाँकै विरूद्ध पाप अविरलमरूपले गरिरहे। मरूभूमिसम्म तिनीहरू सर्वशक्तिमान् परमेश्वरको विरूद्ध नै उठे।
18 तब ती मानिसहरूले परमेश्वरको परीक्षा गर्न फैसला गरे। तिनीहरूले परमेश्वरलाई खाना मागे तिनीहरूको तृप्त पार्न मात्रै।
19 तिनीहरूले परमेश्वर बारे गुनासो गरे अनि भने, “के मरूभूमिमा परमेश्वरले हामीलाई खाना व्यवस्था गर्न सक्नु हुन्छ?
20 जब उहाँले चट्टानमा हिर्काउनुभयो, तेजले पानी बाहिर आयो र खोलाहरू बढेर आए। निःसन्देह उहाँले हामीलाई केही रोटी र मासु दिन सक्नु हुन्छ!”
21 परमप्रभुले ती मानिसहरूले गरेका कुराहरू सुन्नु भयो। परमेश्वर याकूबमाथि क्रोधित हुनुहुन्थ्यो। इस्राएल का मानिसहरूसँग क्रोधीत हुनुहुन्थ्यो।
22 किनभने मानिसहरूले उहाँमाथि विश्वास गरेनन्। तिनीहरूले परमेश्वरले नै बचाउनु हुन्छ भन्ने कुरामा विश्वास गर्दै गरेनन्।
23 ता पनि परमेश्वरले माथि बादलहरूलाई आज्ञा गर्नुभयो, अनि तिनीहरूको निम्ति खानाको रूपमा मन्ना वर्षाउनु भयो।
24 आकाश ढोकाहरू जस्तै खोलियो अनि आकाशका भण्डारबाट अन्न वर्षाउनु भयो।
25 मानिसहरूले स्वर्गदूतहरूका खानाहरू खाए। परमेश्वरले प्रशस्त मात्रामा सन्तुष्टपूर्ण खाद्यहरू तिनीहरूलाई पठाउनु भयो।
26 परमेश्वरले पूर्वीबाट बतास बहाउनु भयो। उहाँले तिनीहरूमाथि आकाशबाट मासु वर्षाउनु भयो।
27 अनगन्ती चराहरू तिनीहरूको छाउनीमाथि झरे, तिनीहरू समुद्रको बलुवा जस्तै थिए।
28 ती मानिसहरूका छाउनीका वरिपरि छाउनीको माझमा ठीक चराहरू झरे।
29 तिनीहरूलाई खाना प्रशस्त थियो, तर तिनीहरूको भोकले तिनीहरूलाई पापी बनायो।
30 तिनीहरूले आफ्नो भोक खप्न सकेनन्। यसकारण तिनीहरूले चराहरूको रगत ननिकाली क्वेल चरा खाए।
31 परमेश्वर ती मानिसहरूमाथि अत्यन्त रिसाउनु भयो, अनि ती मध्ये धेरै जनालाई मार्नु भयो। परमेश्वरले धेरै हट्टाकट्ठा युवाहरूलाई मृत्यु पट्टि ढाल्नुभयो।
32 तर पनि फेरि मानिसहरूले अझ पाप गरी नै रहे! परमेश्वरको आश्चर्यचकित कार्यहरूमाथि तिनीहरूले विश्वास गरेनन्।
33 यसकारण तिनीहरूको जीवन महा-विपदसँग समाप्त पारिदिनु भयो।
34 जब-जब परमेश्वरले तिनीहरू मध्ये केही मानिसहरू मार्नु भयो, बाँकि रहेकाहरू, उहाँप्रति परिश्रमी हुँदै फर्के। तिनीहरूले परमेश्वर कै खोजी गरे।
35 तिनीहरूले सम्झे कि परमेश्वर तिनीहरूका चट्टान हुनुहुन्छ। तिनीहरूले सम्झन्थे कि सर्वोच्च परमेश्वर नै तिनीहरूको उद्धारक हुनुहुन्छ।
36 तिनीहरूले उहाँलाई प्रेम गर्छु भने, तर झूटो बोले। तिनीहरू परमेश्वरसित इमान्दार थिएनन्।
37 तिनीहरूको हृदय परमेश्वरसँग थिएन। तिनीहरू करारसँगआज्ञाकारी थिएनन्।
38 तर परमेश्वर दयालु हुनुहुन्थ्यो। उहाँले तिनीहरूका पापहरूलाई क्षमा गरिदिनु भयो। अनि तिनीहरूलाई विनाश गर्नु भएन। धेरै पल्ट परमेश्वरले आफ्नो क्रोध थाम्नु भयो, उहाँले स्वयंलाई क्रोधी हुनदेखि थाम्नु भयो।
39 परमेश्वरले तिनीहरूलाई बेकम्मा मानिस मात्र सम्झनु भयो। मानिसहरू हावाका झोकाहरू मात्र छन् जो बहन्छ र जाने गर्छ।
40 उफ! यी नै मानिसहरूले मरूभूमिमा परमेश्वरलाई खुब कष्ट दिए! तिनीहरूले परमेश्वरलाई साह्रै खिन्न पारे!
41 घरि-घरि ती मानिसहरूले परमेश्वरको संयम कति छ भनेर जाँच गरिरहे। तिनीहरूले वास्तवमा इस्राएल का पवित्रलाई दुःख दिए।
42 ती मानिसहरूले परमेश्वरको शक्तिलाई बिर्से। तिनीहरूलाई उहाँले शत्रुहरूबाट बचाउँनु भएको कुराहरू बिर्से।
43 तिनीहरूले मिश्र देशमा परमेश्वरले देखाउनु भएको अलौकिक कार्यहरू भुले अनि उहाँले जीवनमा गर्नु भएको आश्चर्यजनक कामहरू भुले।
44 परमेश्वरले नदीहरूलाई रगतमा परिणत गराईदिनु भयो। जसले गर्दा मिश्र वासीहरूले पानी पिउन सकेनन्।
45 परमेश्वरले फटेङ्ग्राहरू पठाउनु भयो। जसले मिश्रवासीहरूलाई टोके। परमेश्वरले भ्यागुताहरू पठाउनु भयो जसले मिश्रवासीहरूका जीवन नाश गरिदियो।
46 परमेश्वरले झूसिल्कीराहरू बालीमा पठाउनु भयो, अनि अन्य उद्भिद्हरूमा सलहहरू पठाउनु भयो।
47 परमेश्वरले तिनीहरूको अङ्गुरहरू असिनाद्वारा नष्ट गराउनु भयो। अनि हिम वर्षाद्वारा तिनीहरूको राम्रो अङ्गुरको झ्याँङ्गहरू नष्टपार्नु भयो।
48 परमेश्वरले बिमार र अस्वस्थताले तिनीहरूको पशुहरू मार्नुभयो।
49 परमेश्वरले आफ्नो क्रोध मिश्रवासीहरूलाई देखाउनु भयो। उहाँले आफ्ना ध्वंश गर्ने दूतहरू तिनीहरूको विरूद्ध पठाउनु भयो।
50 परमेश्वरले आफ्ना क्रोध देखाउने बाटो पाउनु भयो। उहाँले कसैलाई पनि जिउँदो रहन दिनु भएन, डरालाग्दो बिमारको कारणले तिनीहरूलाई मर्न लगाउनु भयो।
51 परमेश्वरले हाम्रो प्रथम जन्मने सन्तानलाई मार्नु भयो। उहाँले हाम्रो पहिले जन्मने सन्तानलाई मार्नभयो।
52 त्यसपछि परमेश्वरले इस्राएललाई भेडावालाले झैं डोर्याउनु भयो। उहाँले तिनीहरूलाई मरूभूमिमा भडा झैं डोर्याउनु भयो।
53 उहाँले आफ्ना मानिसहरूलाई सुरक्षित ठाउँमा लैजानु भयो। उहाँका मानिसहरू डराउने कुनै कामै थिएन। परमेश्वरले आफ्ना शत्रुहरूलाई लाल समुद्रमा डुबाई दिनुभयो।
54 परमेश्वरले आफ्ना मानिसहरूलाई उहाँकै पवित्र स्थानतिर डोर्याउनु भयो उहाँले आफ्ना मानिसहरूलाई आफ्नो शक्तिले बनाउनु भएको पर्वत तिर डोर्याउँनु भयो।
55 परमेश्वरले अन्य जातिहरूलाई त्यो ठाउँ छोडन वाध्य गराउनु भयो। परमेश्वरले प्रत्येक इस्राएली परिवारलाई तिनीहरूकै भूमि अंश दिनुभयो। उहाँले तिनीहरूको परिवार समूहलाई आफ्नो आफ्नै घरमा पुनर्वास गराउनु भयो।
56 तर तिनीहरूले सर्वशक्तिमान् परमेश्वरलाई जाँचे अनि उहाँको विरोधमा लगातार बिद्रोह गरे। तिनीहरूले उहाँका आज्ञाहरू पालन गरेनन्।
57 इस्राएल का मानिसहरू परमप्रभु परमेश्वरबाट विमुख भई टाढा गए। तिनीहरूका पिता-पुर्खाहरूले जस्तै तिनीहरूले पनि गरे। तिनीहरूले झटारो फ्याँकेजस्तै व्यवहार गरे।
58 इस्राएल का मानिसहरूले अग्ला ठाउँहरू बनाए अनि परमेश्वरलाई रीस उठाए। तिनीहरूले मिथ्या देवताहरूका सालिगहरू बनाए र परमेश्वरलाई ईर्ष्यालु बनाए।
59 परमेश्वरले यस्तो सुनेपछि एकदम क्रोधित हुनु भयो। अनि उहाँले इस्राएल लाई पूर्णत रद्द गर्नुभयो।
60 उहाँले शीलोमा भएको पवित्र पाललाई त्यागी दिनुभयो। परमेश्वर मानिसहरू माझ पालमा बस्नु भयो।
61 परमेश्वरले आफ्नो मानिसहरूलाई अरू जातिद्वारा पक्राउनु भयो। शत्रुहरूले उहाँको “सुन्दर रत्न” लगे।
62 परमेश्वरले आफ्ना मानिसहरूलाई क्रोध देखाउनु भयो। उहाँले युद्धमा तिनीहरूलाई मर्न छाडी दिनुभयो।
63 जवान पुरूषहरू जलेर मरे, अनि केटीहरूले विवाहको गीत गाउन पाएनन्।
64 पूजाहारीहरू मारिदिए, तर विधवाहरू तिनीहरूका निम्ति रोएनन्।
65 अन्तमा, निंन्द्रामा हिंडीरहने मानिस जस्तै, धेरै मद पिएको सिपाही जस्तै हाम्रो स्वामी ब्यूँझनु भयो।
66 परमेश्वरले आफ्ना शत्रुहरूलाई परास्त गरेर पछि हटाउनु भयो। उहाँले शत्रुहरूलाई हराएर सदाको निम्ति अपमानित गर्नुभयो।
67 तर परमेश्वरले यूसुफको परिवारलाई रद्ध गर्नुभयो। उहाँले एप्रैमको परिवारलाई पनि ग्रहण गर्नु भएन।
68 अहँ, परमेश्वरले यहूदाको परिवारलाई चुन्नु भयो। परमेश्वरले सियोन, उहाँले प्रेम गरेको पर्वत चुन्नु भयो।
69 परमेश्वरले त्यो उच्च पर्वतमा आफ्नो मन्दिर बनाउनु भयो। परमेश्वरले आफ्नो पवित्र मन्दिर पृथ्वी झैं सदा सर्वदाको निम्ति बनाउनु भयो।
70 परमेश्वरले दाऊदलाई आफ्नो खास दासको रूपमा छान्नु भयो। दाऊदले भेंडागोठ सम्हाली रहेका थिए, तर परमेश्वरले उनलाई त्यस कामबाट टाढो लैजानु भयो।
71 दाऊदले भेंडालाई हेरचाह गरिरहेका थिए, तर परमेश्वरले दाऊदलाई उहाँका आफ्ना मानिसहरूलाई हेरचाह गर्ने काम सुम्पनु भयो। याकूबका मानिसहरूलाई हेरचाह गर्ने, इस्राएल का मानिसहरूलाई हेरचाह गर्ने, परमेश्वरको सम्पत्ति हेरचाह गर्ने काम सुम्पनु भयो।
72 दाऊदले आफ्नो शुद्ध हृदयले तिनीहरूलाई डोर्याए। खुब सतर्कपूर्ण अगुवाई गरे।
1 Maschil of Asaph.
2 Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
3 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
4 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
5 We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
6 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:
7 That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
8 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
9 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
10 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
11 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
12 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
13 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
14 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
15 In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
16 He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
17 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
18 And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
19 And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
20 Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
21 Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?
22 Therefore the Lord heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
23 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
24 Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
25 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
26 Man did eat angels’ food: he sent them meat to the full.
27 He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.
28 He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
29 And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.
30 So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;
31 They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
32 The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
33 For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
34 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
35 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired early after God.
36 And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
37 Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
38 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
39 But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
40 For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
41 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
42 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
43 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.
44 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:
45 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
46 He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
47 He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
48 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.
49 He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
50 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.
51 He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
52 And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
53 But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
54 And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
55 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.
56 He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
57 Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
58 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
59 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
60 When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
61 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
62 And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy’s hand.
63 He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
64 The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.
65 Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
66 Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
67 And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
68 Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
69 But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
70 And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.
71 He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
72 From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
73 So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
0 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of the Lord, who spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said,
1 I will love thee, O Lord, my strength.
2 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.
3 I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
6 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.
7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
12 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
13 The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
15 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.
16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.
18 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the Lord was my stay.
19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
20 The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
21 For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
22 For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.
23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.
24 Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
25 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;
26 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
27 For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
28 For thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.
29 For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.
30 As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the Lord is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.
31 For who is God save the Lord? or who is a rock save our God?
32 It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.
33 He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet, and setteth me upon my high places.
34 He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
35 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.
36 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
37 I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.
38 I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.
39 For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.
40 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.
41 They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the Lord, but he answered them not.
42 Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
43 Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.
44 As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.
45 The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.
46 The Lord liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.
47 It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.
48 He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.
49 Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O Lord, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name.
50 Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.