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I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from guilt.
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Therefore the Lord has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in his sight.
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With the loyal you show yourself loyal; with the blameless you show yourself blameless;
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with the pure you show yourself pure, and with the crooked you show yourself perverse.
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You deliver a humble people, but your eyes are upon the haughty to bring them down.
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Indeed, you are my lamp, O Lord, the Lord lightens my darkness.
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By you I can crush a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall.
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This God—his way is perfect; the promise of the Lord proves true; he is a shield for all who take refuge in him.
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For who is God, but the Lord? And who is a rock, except our God?
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The God who has girded me with strength has opened wide my path.
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He made my feet like the feet of deer, and set me secure on the heights.
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He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
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You have given me the shield of your salvation, and your help has made me great.
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You have made me stride freely, and my feet do not slip;
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I pursued my enemies and destroyed them, and did not turn back until they were consumed.
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I consumed them; I struck them down, so that they did not rise; they fell under my feet.
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For you girded me with strength for the battle; you made my assailants sink under me.
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You made my enemies turn their backs to me, those who hated me, and I destroyed them.
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They looked, but there was no one to save them; they cried to the Lord, but he did not answer them.
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I beat them fine like the dust of the earth, I crushed them and stamped them down like the mire of the streets.
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You delivered me from strife with the peoples; you kept me as the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.
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Foreigners came cringing to me; as soon as they heard of me, they obeyed me.
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Foreigners lost heart, and came trembling out of their strongholds.
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The Lord lives! Blessed be my rock, and exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation,
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the God who gave me vengeance and brought down peoples under me,
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who brought me out from my enemies; you exalted me above my adversaries, you delivered me from the violent.
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For this I will extol you, O Lord, among the nations, and sing praises to your name.
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He is a tower of salvation for his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his descendants forever.
