Salmos 18

1Al maestro de coro. Del servidor de Dios, de David, el cual dirigió al Señor las palabras de este cántico en el día en que le libró de las manos de todos sus enemigos y de las de Saúl.

2Y dijo: Te amo, Yahvé, fortaleza mía, mi peña, mi baluarte, mi libertador,

3Dios mío, mi roca, mi refugio, broquel mío, cuerno de mi salud, asilo mío.

4Invoco a Yahvé, el digno de alabanza, y quedo libre de mis enemigos.

5Olas de muerte me rodeaban, me alarmaban los torrentes de iniquidad;

6las ataduras del sepulcro me envolvieron, se tendían a mis pies lazos mortales.

7En mi angustia invoqué a Yahvé, y clamé a mi Dios; y Él, desde su palacio, oyó mi voz; mi lamento llegó a sus oídos.

8Se estremeció la tierra y tembló; se conmovieron los cimientos de los montes y vacilaron, porque Él ardía de furor.

9Humo salió de sus narices; de su boca, fuego devorador; y despedía carbones encendidos.

10Inclinó los cielos, y descendió con densas nubes bajo sus pies.

11Subió sobre un querube y voló, y era llevado sobre las alas del viento.

12Se ocultaba bajo un velo de tinieblas; aguas tenebrosas y oscuras nubes lo rodeaban como un pabellón.

13Se encendieron carbones de fuego al resplandor de su rostro.

14Tronó Yahvé desde el cielo, el Altísimo hizo resonar su voz;

15y lanzó sus saetas y los dispersó; multiplicó sus rayos, y los puso en derrota.

16Y aparecieron a la vista los lechos de los océanos; se mostraron desnudos los cimientos del orbe terráqueo, ante la amenaza de Yahvé, al resollar el soplo de su ira.

17Desde lo alto extendió su brazo y me arrebató, sacándome de entre las muchas aguas;

18me libró de mi feroz enemigo, de adversarios más poderosos que yo.

19Se echaron sobre mí en el día de mi infortunio; pero salió Yahvé en mi defensa,

20y me trajo a la anchura; me salvó porque me ama.

21Yahvé me ha retribuido conforme a mi rectitud; me remunera según la limpieza de mis manos.

22Porque seguí los caminos de Yahvé, y no me rebelé contra mi Dios;

23porque mantuve ante mis ojos todos sus mandamientos y nunca aparté de mí sus estatutos.

24Fui íntegro para con Él, y me cuidé de mi maldad.

25Yahvé me ha retribuido conforme a mi rectitud; según la limpieza de mis manos ante sus ojos.

26Tú eres misericordioso con el misericordioso; con el varón recto, eres recto.

27Con el sincero, eres sincero; y con el doble, te haces astuto.

28Tú salvas al pueblo oprimido, y humillas los ojos altaneros.

29Eres Tú quien mantiene encendida mi lámpara, oh Yahvé; Tú, Dios mío, disipas mis tinieblas.

30Fiado en Ti embestiré a un ejército; con mi Dios saltaré murallas.

31¡El Dios mío!... Su conducta es perfecta, Su palabra acrisolada. Él mismo es el escudo de cuantos lo buscan como refugio.

32Pues ¿quién es Dios fuera de Yahvé? o ¿qué roca hay si no es el Dios nuestro?

33Aquel Dios que me ciñó de fortaleza e hizo inmaculado mi camino.

34El que volvió mis pies veloces como los del ciervo, y me afirmó sobre las cumbres.

35El que adiestró mis manos para la pelea, y mi brazo para tender el arco de bronce.

36Tú me diste por broquel tu auxilio, me sostuvo tu diestra; tu solicitud me ha engrandecido.

37Ensanchaste el camino a mis pasos, y mis pies no flaquearon.

38Perseguía a mis enemigos y los alcanzaba; y no me volvía hasta desbaratarlos.

39Los destrozaba y no podían levantarse; caían bajo mis pies.

40Tú me revestías de valor para el combate, sujetabas a mi cetro a los que me resistían.

41Ponías en fuga a mis enemigos, dispersabas a cuantos me aborrecían.

42Vociferaban, mas no había quien los auxiliase;

43Y yo los dispersaba como polvo que el viento dispersa; los pisoteaba como el lodo de las calles.

44Me libraste de las contiendas del pueblo, me has hecho cabeza de las naciones; un pueblo que no conocía me sirve;

45con atento oído me obedecen; los extraños me adulan.

46Los extranjeros palidecen, y abandonan, temblando, sus fortalezas.

47¡Vive Yahvé! ¡Bendita sea mi Roca! ¡Sea ensalzado el Dios mi Salvador!

48Aquel Dios que me otorgó la venganza, que sujetó a mí las naciones;

49que me libró de mis enemigos, que me encumbró sobre mis opositores, y me salvó de las manos del hombre violento.

50Por eso te alabaré entre las naciones, oh Yahvé; cantaré himnos a tu Nombre.

51Él da grandes victorias a su rey, y usa de misericordia con su ungido, con David y su linaje, por toda la eternidad.

1In finem. Puero Domini David, qui locutus est Domino verba cantici hujus, in die qua eripuit eum Dominus de manu omnium inimicorum ejus, et de manu Saul, et dixit:

2[Diligam te, Domine, fortitudo mea.

3Dominus firmamentum meum, et refugium meum, et liberator meus. Deus meus adjutor meus, et sperabo in eum; protector meus, et cornu salutis meæ, et susceptor meus.

4Laudans invocabo Dominum, et ab inimicis meis salvus ero.

5Circumdederunt me dolores mortis, et torrentes iniquitatis conturbaverunt me.

6Dolores inferni circumdederunt me; præoccupaverunt me laquei mortis.

7In tribulatione mea invocavi Dominum, et ad Deum meum clamavi: et exaudivit de templo sancto suo vocem meam; et clamor meus in conspectu ejus introivit in aures ejus.

8Commota est, et contremuit terra; fundamenta montium conturbata sunt, et commota sunt: quoniam iratus est eis.

9Ascendit fumus in ira ejus, et ignis a facie ejus exarsit; carbones succensi sunt ab eo.

10Inclinavit cælos, et descendit, et caligo sub pedibus ejus.

11Et ascendit super cherubim, et volavit; volavit super pennas ventorum.

12Et posuit tenebras latibulum suum; in circuitu ejus tabernaculum ejus, tenebrosa aqua in nubibus aëris.

13Præ fulgore in conspectu ejus nubes transierunt; grando et carbones ignis.

14Et intonuit de cælo Dominus, et Altissimus dedit vocem suam: grando et carbones ignis.

15Et misit sagittas suas, et dissipavit eos; fulgura multiplicavit, et conturbavit eos.

16Et apparuerunt fontes aquarum, et revelata sunt fundamenta orbis terrarum, ab increpatione tua, Domine, ab inspiratione spiritus iræ tuæ.

17Misit de summo, et accepit me; et assumpsit me de aquis multis.

18Eripuit me de inimicis meis fortissimis, et ab his qui oderunt me. Quoniam confortati sunt super me;

19prævenerunt me in die afflictionis meæ: et factus est Dominus protector meus.

20Et eduxit me in latitudinem; salvum me fecit, quoniam voluit me,

21et retribuet mihi Dominus secundum justitiam meam, et secundum puritatem manuum mearum retribuet mihi:

22quia custodivi vias Domini, nec impie gessi a Deo meo;

23quoniam omnia judicia ejus in conspectu meo, et justitias ejus non repuli a me.

24Et ero immaculatus cum eo; et observabo me ab iniquitate mea.

25Et retribuet mihi Dominus secundum justitiam meam, et secundum puritatem manuum mearum in conspectu oculorum ejus.

26Cum sancto sanctus eris, et cum viro innocente innocens eris,

27et cum electo electus eris, et cum perverso perverteris.

28Quoniam tu populum humilem salvum facies, et oculos superborum humiliabis.

29Quoniam tu illuminas lucernam meam, Domine; Deus meus, illumina tenebras meas.

30Quoniam in te eripiar a tentatione; et in Deo meo transgrediar murum.

31Deus meus, impolluta via ejus; eloquia Domini igne examinata: protector est omnium sperantium in se.

32Quoniam quis deus præter Dominum? aut quis deus præter Deum nostrum?

33Deus qui præcinxit me virtute, et posuit immaculatam viam meam;

34qui perfecit pedes meos tamquam cervorum, et super excelsa statuens me;

35qui docet manus meas ad prælium. Et posuisti, ut arcum æreum, brachia mea,

36et dedisti mihi protectionem salutis tuæ: et dextera tua suscepit me, et disciplina tua correxit me in finem, et disciplina tua ipsa me docebit.

37Dilatasti gressus meos subtus me, et non sunt infirmata vestigia mea.

38Persequar inimicos meos, et comprehendam illos; et non convertar donec deficiant.

39Confringam illos, nec poterunt stare; cadent subtus pedes meos.

40Et præcinxisti me virtute ad bellum, et supplantasti insurgentes in me subtus me.

41Et inimicos meos dedisti mihi dorsum, et odientes me disperdidisti.

42Clamaverunt, nec erat qui salvos faceret; ad Dominum, nec exaudivit eos.

43Et comminuam eos ut pulverem ante faciem venti; ut lutum platearum delebo eos.

44Eripies me de contradictionibus populi; constitues me in caput gentium.

45Populus quem non cognovi servivit mihi; in auditu auris obedivit mihi.

46Filii alieni mentiti sunt mihi, filii alieni inveterati sunt, et claudicaverunt a semitis suis.

47Vivit Dominus, et benedictus Deus meus, et exaltetur Deus salutis meæ.

48Deus qui das vindictas mihi, et subdis populos sub me; liberator meus de inimicis meis iracundis.

49Et ab insurgentibus in me exaltabis me; a viro iniquo eripies me.

50Propterea confitebor tibi in nationibus, Domine, et nomini tuo psalmum dicam;

51magnificans salutes regis ejus, et faciens misericordiam christo suo David, et semini ejus usque in sæculum.]

1Unto the end, for David the servant of the Lord, who spoke to the Lord the words of this canticle, in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hands of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. [2 Kings 22]

2I will love thee, O Lord, my strength:

3The Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my deliverer. My God is my helper, and in him will I put my trust. My protector and the horn of my salvation, and my support.

4Praising I will call upon the Lord: and I shall be saved from my enemies.

5The sorrows of death surrounded me: and the torrents of iniquity troubled me.

6The sorrows of hell encompassed me: and the snares of death prevented me.

7In my affliction I called upon the Lord, and I cried to my God: And he heard my voice from his holy temple: and my cry before him came into his ears.

8The earth shook and trembled: the foundations of the mountains were troubled and were moved, because he was angry with them.

9There went up a smoke in his wrath: and a fire flamed from his face: coals were kindled by it.

10He bowed the heavens, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.

11And he ascended upon the cherubim, and he flew; he flew upon the wings of the winds.

12And he made darkness his covert, his pavilion round about him: dark waters in the clouds of the air.

13At the brightness that was before him the clouds passed, hail and coals of fire.

14And the Lord thundered from heaven, and the highest gave his voice: hail and coals of fire.

15And he sent forth his arrows, and he scattered them: he multiplied lightnings, and troubled them.

16Then the fountains of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were discovered: At thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the spirit of thy wrath.

17He sent from on high, and took me: and received me out of many waters.

18He delivered me from my strongest enemies, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.

19They prevented me in the day of my affliction: and the Lord became my protector.

20And he brought me forth into a large place: he saved me, because he was well pleased with me.

21And the Lord will reward me according to my justice; and will repay me according to the cleanness of my hands:

22Because I have kept the ways of the Lord; and have not done wickedly against my God.

23For till his judgments are in my sight: and his justices I have not put away from me.

24And I shall be spotless with him: and shall keep myself from my iniquity.

25And the Lord will reward me according to my justice; and according to the cleanness of my hands before his eyes.

26With the holy, thou wilt be holy; and with the innocent man thou wilt be innocent.

27And with the elect thou wilt be elect: and with the perverse thou wilt be perverted.

28For thou wilt save the humble people; but wilt bring down the eyes of the proud.

29For thou lightest my lamp, O Lord: O my God enlighten my darkness.

30For by thee I shall be delivered from temptation; and through my God I shall go over a wall.

31As for my God, his way is undefiled: the words of the Lord are fire tried: he is the protector of all that trust in him.

32For who is God but the Lord? or who is God but our God?

33God who hath girt me with strength; and made my way blameless.

34Who hath made my feet like the feet of harts: and who setteth me upon high places.

35Who teacheth my hands to war: and thou hast made my arms like a brazen bow.

36And thou hast given me the protection of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath held me up: And thy discipline hath corrected me unto the end: and thy discipline, the same shall teach me.

37Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; and my feet are not weakened.

38I will pursue after my enemies, and overtake them: and I will not turn again till they are consumed.

39I will break them, and they shall not be able to stand: they shall fall under my feet.

40And thou hast girded me with strength unto battle; and hast subdued under me them that rose up against me.

41And thou hast made my enemies turn their back upon me, and hast destroyed them that hated me.

42They cried, but there was none to save them, to the Lord: but he heard them not.

43And I shall beat them as small as the dust before the wind; I shall bring them to nought, like the dirt in the streets.

44Thou wilt deliver me from the contradictions of the people: thou wilt make me head of the Gentiles.

45A people, which I knew not, hath served me: at the hearing of the ear they have obeyed me.

46The children that are strangers have lied to me, strange children have faded away, and have halted from their paths.

47The Lord liveth, and blessed be my God, and let the God of my salvation be exalted:

48O God, who avengest me, and subduest the people under me, my deliverer from my enemies.

49And thou wilt lift me up above them that rise up against me: from the unjust man thou wilt deliver me.

50Therefore will I give glory to thee, O Lord, among the nations, and I will sing a psalm to thy name.

51Giving great deliverance to his king, and shewing mercy to David his anointed: and to his seed for ever.