1 Ao mestre de canto. De Davi, servo do Senhor, que dirigiu as palavras deste cântico ao Senhor, no dia em que ficou livre de todos os seus inimigos e das mãos de Saul. Disse: Eu vos amo, Senhor, minha força!

2 O Senhor é o meu rochedo, minha fortaleza e meu libertador. Meu Deus é a minha rocha, onde encontro o meu refúgio, meu escudo, força de minha salvação e minha cidadela.

3 Invoco o Senhor, digno de todo louvor, e fico livre dos meus inimigos.

4 Circundavam-me os vagalhões da morte, torrentes devastadoras me atemorizavam,

5 enlaçavam-se as cadeias da habitação dos mortos, a própria morte me prendia em suas redes.

6 Na minha angústia, invoquei o Senhor, gritei para meu Deus: do seu templo ele ouviu a minha voz, e o meu clamor em sua presença chegou aos seus ouvidos.

7 A terra vacilou e tremeu, os fundamentos das montanhas fremiram, abalaram-se, porque Deus se abrasou em cólera:

8 suas narinas exalavam fumaça; sua boca, fogo devorador, brasas incandescentes.

9 Ele inclinou os céus e desceu, calcando aos pés escuras nuvens.

10 Cavalgou sobre um querubim e voou, planando nas asas do vento.

11 Envolveu-se nas trevas como se fossem véu, fez para si uma tenda das águas tenebrosas, densas nuvens.

12 Do esplendor de sua presença suas nuvens avançaram: saraiva e centelhas de fogo.

13 Dos céus trovejou o Senhor, o Altíssimo fez ressoar a sua voz.

14 Lançou setas e dispersou os inimigos, fulminou relâmpagos e os desbaratou.

15 E apareceu descoberto o leito do mar, ficaram à vista os fundamentos da terra, ante a vossa ameaçadora voz, ó Senhor, ante o furacão de vossa cólera.

16 Do alto estendeu a sua mão e me pegou, e retirou-me das águas profundas,

17 livrou-me de inimigo poderoso, dos meus adversários mais fortes do que eu.

18 Investiram contra mim no dia do meu infortúnio, mas o Senhor foi o meu arrimo;

19 pôs-me a salvo e livrou-me, porque me ama.

20 O Senhor me tratou segundo a minha inocência, retribuiu-me segundo a pureza de minhas mãos,

21 porque guardei os caminhos do Senhor e não pequei separando-me do meu Deus.

22 Tenho diante dos olhos todos os seus preceitos e não me desvio de suas leis.

23 Ando irrepreensivelmente diante dele, guardando-me do meu pecado.

24 O Senhor retribuiu-me segundo a minha justiça, segundo a pureza de minhas mãos diante dos seus olhos.

25 Com quem é bondoso vos mostrais bondoso, com o homem íntegro vos mostrais íntegro;

26 puro com quem é puro; prudente com quem é astuto.

27 Os humildes salvais, os semblantes soberbos humilhais.

28 Senhor, sois vós que fazeis brilhar o meu farol, sois vós que dissipais as minhas trevas.

29 Convosco afrontarei batalhões, com meu Deus escalarei muralhas.

30 Os caminhos de Deus são perfeitos, a palavra do Senhor é pura. Ele é o escudo de todos os que nele se refugiam.

31 Pois quem é Deus senão o Senhor? Quem é o rochedo, senão o nosso Deus?

32 É Deus quem me cinge de coragem e aplana o meu caminho.

33 Torna os meus pés velozes como os das gazelas e me instala nas alturas.

34 Adestra minhas mãos para o combate e meus braços para o tiro de arco.

35 Vós me dais o escudo que me salva. Vossa destra me sustém, e vossa bondade me engrandece.

36 Alargais o caminho a meus passos, para meus pés não resvalarem.

37 Dou caça aos inimigos e os alcanço, e não volto sem que os tenha aniquilado.

38 De tal sorte os despedaço, que não mais poderão levantar-se: eles ficam caídos a meus pés.

39 Vós me cingis de coragem para a luta e ante mim dobrais os meus adversários.

40 Afugentais da minha presença os meus inimigos e reduzis ao silêncio os que me aborrecem.

41 Gritam por socorro, mas não há quem os salve; clamam ao Senhor, mas não responde...

42 Eu os disperso como o pó que o vento leva, e os esmago como o barro das estradas.

43 Vós me livrais das revoltas do povo e me colocais à frente das nações; povos que eu desconhecia se tornaram meus servos.

44 Gente estranha me serve abnegadamente e me obedece à primeira intimação.

45 Gente estranha desfalece e sai tremendo de seus esconderijos.

46 Viva o Senhor e bendito seja o meu rochedo! Exaltado seja Deus, que me salva!

47 Deus, que me proporciona a vingança e avassala nações a meus pés.

48 Sois vós que me libertais dos meus inimigos, me exaltais acima dos meus adversários e me salvais do homem violento.

49 Por isso vos louvarei, ó Senhor, entre as nações e celebrarei o vosso nome.

50 Ele prepara grandes vitórias a seu rei e faz misericórdia a seu ungido, a Davi e a sua descendência para sempre.

1 To the chief music-maker. Of the servant of the Lord, of David, who said the words of this song to the Lord on the day when the Lord made him free from the hand of all his haters, and from the hand of Saul; and he said,

2 \18:1\I will give you my love, O Lord, my strength.

3 \18:2\The Lord is my Rock, my walled town, and my saviour; my God, my Rock, in him will I put my faith; my breastplate, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

4 \18:3\I will send up my cry to the Lord, who is to be praised; so will I be made safe from those who are against me.

5 \18:4\The cords of death were round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear.

6 \18:5\The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.

7 \18:6\In my trouble my voice went up to the Lord, and my cry to my God: my voice came to his hearing in his holy Temple, and my prayer came before him, even into his ears.

8 \18:7\Then trouble and shock came on the earth; and the bases of the mountains were moved and shaking, because he was angry.

9 \18:8\There went up a smoke from his nose, and a fire of destruction from his mouth: flames were lighted by it.

10 \18:9\The heavens were bent, so that he might come down; and it was dark under his feet.

11 \18:10\And he went in flight through the air, seated on a storm-cloud: going quickly on the wings of the wind.

12 \18:11\He made the dark his secret place; his tent round him was the dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

13 \18:12\Before his shining light his dark clouds went past, raining ice and fire.

14 \18:13\The Lord made thunder in the heavens, and the voice of the Highest was sounding out: a rain of ice and fire.

15 \18:14\He sent out his arrows, driving them in all directions; by his flames of fire they were troubled.

16 \18:15\Then the deep beds of the waters were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of your words of wrath, O Lord, because of the breath from your mouth.

17 \18:16\He sent from on high, he took me, pulling me out of great waters.

18 \18:17\He made me free from my strong hater, and from those who were against me, because they were stronger than I.

19 \18:18\They came on me in the day of my trouble; but the Lord was my support.

20 \18:19\He took me out into a wide place; he was my saviour because he had delight in me.

21 \18:20\The Lord gives me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean before him.

22 \18:21\For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God.

23 \18:22\For all his decisions were before me, and I did not put away his laws from me.

24 \18:23\And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.

25 \18:24\Because of this the Lord has given me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean in his eyes.

26 \18:25\On him who has mercy you will have mercy; to the upright you will be upright;

27 \18:26\He who is holy will see that you are holy; but to the man whose way is not straight you will be a hard judge.

28 \18:27\For you are the saviour of those who are in trouble; but eyes full of pride will be made low.

29 \18:28\You, O Lord, will be my light; by you, my God, the dark will be made bright for me.

30 \18:29\By your help I have made a way through the wall which was shutting me in; by the help of my God I have gone over a wall.

31 \18:30\As for God, his way is completely good; the word of the Lord is tested; he is a breastplate for all those who put their faith in him.

32 \18:31\For who is God but the Lord? or who is a Rock but our God?

33 \18:32\God puts a strong band about me, guiding me in a straight way.

34 \18:33\He makes my feet like roes' feet, and puts me on high places.

35 \18:34\He makes my hands expert in war, so that a bow of brass is bent by my arms.

36 \18:35\You have given me the breastplate of your salvation: your right hand has been my support, and your mercy has made me great.

37 \18:36\You have made my steps wide under me, so that my feet are kept from slipping.

38 \18:37\I go after my haters and overtake them; not turning back till they are all overcome.

39 \18:38\I will give them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.

40 \18:39\For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who come out against me.

41 \18:40\By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.

42 \18:41\They were crying out, but there was no one to come to their help: even to the Lord, but he gave them no answer.

43 \18:42\Then they were crushed as small as dust before the wind; they were drained out like the waste of the streets.

44 \18:43\You have made me free from the fightings of the people; you have made me the head of the nations: a people of whom I had no knowledge will be my servants.

45 \18:44\From the time when my name comes to their ears they will be ruled by me: men of other countries will, with false hearts, put themselves under my authority.

46 \18:45\They will be wasting away, they will come out of their secret places shaking with fear.

47 \18:46\The Lord is living; praise be to my Rock, and let the God of my salvation be honoured.

48 \18:47\It is God who sends punishment on my haters, and puts peoples under my rule.

49 \18:48\He makes me free from my haters; I am lifted up over those who come up against me: you have made me free from the violent man.

50 \18:49\Because of this I will give you praise, O Lord, among the nations, and will make a song of praise to your name.

51 \18:50\Great salvation does he give to his king; he has mercy on the king of his selection, David, and on his seed for ever.