God

From the brightness before him, fiery coals flamed out.

"ADONAI thundered from heaven, Ha'Elyon sounded his voice.

He sent out arrows and scattered them; with lightning he routed them.

The channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were exposed at ADONAI's rebuke, at the blast of breath from his nostrils.

"He sent from on high, he took me and pulled me out of deep water;

They came against me on my day of calamity, but ADONAI was my support.

"He brought me out to an open place; he rescued me, because he took pleasure in me.

ADONAI rewarded me for my uprightness, he repaid me because my hands were clean.

"For I have kept the ways of ADONAI, I have not done evil by leaving my God;

for all his rulings were before me, I did not depart from his regulations.

I was pure-hearted toward him and kept myself from my sin.

"Hence ADONAI repaid me for my uprightness, according to my purity in his view.

With the merciful, you are merciful; with the champion of purity, you are pure;

with the honest, you are honest; but with the crooked you are cunning.

People afflicted, you save; but when your eyes are on the haughty, you humble them.

"For you, ADONAI, are my lamp; ADONAI lights up my darkness.

With you I can run through a whole troop of men, with my God I can leap a wall.

"As for God, his way is perfect, the word of ADONAI has been tested by fire; he shields all who take refuge in him.

For who is God but ADONAI, and who is a Rock but our God?

"God is my strength and protection; he makes my way go straight.

You give me your shield, which is salvation; your answers make me great.

"For you braced me with strength for the battle and bent down my adversaries beneath me.

"They looked, but there was no one to help, even to ADONAI, but he didn't answer.

"ADONAI is alive! Blessed is my Rock! Exalted be God, the Rock of my salvation,

the God who gives me vengeance and makes peoples submit to me.