God Vindicates the Righteous

Psalms 18:20-30

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 distance his regulations from me.

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

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

With the merciful, you are merciful; with a man who is sincere, you are sincere;

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

People afflicted, you save; but haughty eyes, you humble.

"For you, ADONAI, light my lamp; ADONAI, my God, 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.