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I love you, God - you make me strong.
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God is bedrock under my feet, the castle in which I live, my rescuing knight. My God - the high crag where I run for dear life, hiding behind the boulders, safe in the granite hideout.
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I sing to God, the Praise-Lofty, and find myself safe and saved.
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The hangman's noose was tight at my throat; devil waters rushed over me.
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Hell's ropes cinched me tight; death traps barred every exit.
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A hostile world! I call to God, I cry to God to help me. From his palace he hears my call; my cry brings me right into his presence - a private audience!
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Earth wobbles and lurches; huge mountains shake like leaves, Quake like aspen leaves because of his rage.
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His nostrils flare, bellowing smoke; his mouth spits fire. Tongues of fire dart in and out;
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he lowers the sky. He steps down; under his feet an abyss opens up.
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He's riding a winged creature, swift on wind-wings.
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Now he's wrapped himself in a trenchcoat of black-cloud darkness.
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But his cloud-brightness bursts through, spraying hailstones and fireballs.
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Then God thundered out of heaven; the High God gave a great shout, spraying hailstones and fireballs.
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God shoots his arrows - pandemonium! He hurls his lightnings - a rout!
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The secret sources of ocean are exposed, the hidden depths of earth lie uncovered The moment you roar in protest, let loose your hurricane anger.
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But me he caught - reached all the way from sky to sea; he pulled me out
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that enemy chaos, the void in which I was drowning.
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They hit me when I was down, but God stuck by me.
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He stood me up on a wide-open field; I stood there saved - surprised to be loved!
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God made my life complete when I placed all the pieces before him. When I got my act together, he gave me a fresh start.
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Now I'm alert to God's ways; I don't take God for granted.
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Every day I review the ways he works; I try not to miss a trick.
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I feel put back together, and I'm watching my step.
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God rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes.