25 With faithful people you keep faith,
to blameless ones you goodness show.
26 With the pure you yourself are pure,
but with the crooked you are shrewd.
27 For suff’ring people you will save,
the proud and haughty you will smite.
28 You light my lamp, O LORD, my God,
and turn my darkness into light.
29 By you I run against a troop;
by you, my God, I leap a wall.
30 This God, how perfect is his way;
no promise of the LORD can fall.
A shield is he to ev’ryone
who refuge in his name has sought.
31 For who is God, except the LORD?
And who a rock, except our God?
32 This God equips and strengthens me
and makes me blameless in my walk.
33 He makes my feet like feet of deer;
he sets my feet upon the rock.
34 He trains my hands with skill for war,
a bow of bronze my arms can break.
35 Your right hand gives me victory.
Your gentleness has made me great.
36 You cleared for me a pathway wide;
my feet slide not while I pursue.
37 I overtake my fleeing foes;
I turn not till they are consumed.
38 My foes can rise again no more;
they helpless fall beneath my feet.
39 With strength you armed me for the fight;
my foes you humbled under me.
40 You turned their backs away in flight;
they cried for help, but no one came.
41 They cried to God; he answered not.
42 Like wayside dirt I scattered them.
43 You saved me from my enemy,
o’er all the nations made me head.
44 They heard my name and cringed in fear,
45 came trembling from their fortresses.
The psalm continues at Psalm 18D.
– Trinity Psalter Hymnal, alt.
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