स्तोत्र ग्रन्थ 18

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.

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 the words of this canticle to the Lord, in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. And he said:

2I will love you, O Lord my strength.

3The Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my liberator. My God is my helper, and I hope in him: my protector, and the horn of my salvation, and my support.

4Praising, I will call upon the Lord. And I will be saved from my enemies.

5The sorrows of death surrounded me, and the torrents of iniquity dismayed me.

6The sorrows of Hell encompassed me, and the snares of death intercepted me.

7In my tribulation, I called upon the Lord, and I cried out to my God. And he listened to my voice from his holy temple. And my cry in his presence entered into his ears.

8The earth was shaken, and it trembled. The foundations of the mountains were disturbed, and they were shaken, because he was angry with them.

9A smoke ascended by his wrath, and a fire flared up from his face: coals were kindled by it.

10He bent the heavens, and they descended. And darkness was under his feet.

11And he ascended upon the cherubim, and he flew: he flew upon the feathers of the winds.

12And he set darkness as his hiding place, with his tabernacle all around him: dark waters in the clouds of the air.

13At the brightness that was before his sight, the clouds crossed by, with hail and coals of fire.

14And the Lord thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered his voice: hail and coals of fire.

15And he sent forth his arrows and scattered them. He multiplied lightnings, and he set them in disarray.

16Then the fountains of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were revealed, by your rebuke, O Lord, by the inspiration of the Spirit of your wrath.

17He sent from on high, and he accepted me. And he took me up, out of many waters.

18He rescued me from my strongest enemies, and from those who hated me. For they had been too strong for me.

19They intercepted me in the day of my affliction, and the Lord became my protector.

20And he led me out, into a wide place. He accomplished my salvation, because he willed me.

21And the Lord will reward me according to my justice, and he will repay me according to the purity of my hands.

22For I have preserved the ways of the Lord, and I have not behaved impiously before my God.

23For all his judgments are in my sight, and his justice, I have not pushed away from me.

24And I will be immaculate together with him, and I will keep myself from my iniquity.

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

26With the holy, you will be holy, and with the innocent, you will be innocent,

27and with the elect, you will be elect, and with the perverse, you will be perverse.

28For you will save the humble people, but you will bring down the eyes of the arrogant.

29For you illuminate my lamp, O Lord. My God, enlighten my darkness.

30For in you, I will be delivered from temptation; and with my God, I will climb over a wall.

31As for my God, his way is undefiled. The eloquence of the Lord has been examined by fire. He is the protector of all who hope in him.

32For who is God, except the Lord? And who is God, except our God?

33It is God who has wrapped me with virtue and made my way immaculate.

34It is he who has perfected my feet, like the feet of deer, and who stations me upon the heights.

35It is he who trains my hands for battle. And you have set my arms like a bow of brass.

36And you have given me the protection of your salvation. And your right hand sustains me. And your discipline has corrected me unto the end. And your discipline itself will teach me.

37You have expanded my footsteps under me, and my tracks have not been weakened.

38I will pursue my enemies and apprehend them. And I will not turn back until they have failed.

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

40And you have wrapped me with virtue for the battle. And those rising up against me, you have subdued under me.

41And you have given the back of my enemies to me, and you have destroyed those who hated me.

42They cried out, but there was none to save them, to the Lord, but he did not heed them.

43And I will crush them into dust before the face of the wind, so that I will obliterate them like the mud in the streets.

44You will rescue me from the contradictions of the people. You will set me at the head of the Gentiles.

45A people I did not know has served me. As soon as their ears heard, they were obedient to me.

46The sons of foreigners have been deceitful to me, the sons of foreigners have grown weak with time, and they have wavered from their paths.

47The Lord lives, and blessed is my God, and may the God of my salvation be exalted:

48O God, who vindicates me and who subdues the people under me, my liberator from my enraged enemies.

49And you will exalt me above those who rise up against me. From the iniquitous man, you will rescue me.

50Because of this, O Lord, I will confess to you among the nations, and I will compose a psalm to your name:

51magnifying the salvation of his king, and showing mercy to David, his Christ, and to his offspring, even for all time.