29. For you, Lord, give light to my lamp;my God brightens my darkness.
30. With you I can rush an armed band,with my God to help I can leap a wall.
31. God’s way is unerring;the Lord’s promise is refined;he is a shield for all who take refuge in him.
32. Truly, who is God except the Lord?Who but our God is the rock?
33. This God who girded me with might,kept my way unerring,
34. Who made my feet like a deer’s,and set me on the heights,
35. Who trained my hands for war,my arms to string a bow of bronze.
36. You have given me your saving shield;your right hand has upheld me;your favor made me great.
37. You made room for my steps beneath me;my ankles never twisted.
38. I pursued my enemies and overtook them;I did not turn back till I destroyed them.
39. I decimated them; they could not rise;they fell at my feet.
40. You girded me with valor for war,subjugated my opponents beneath me.
41. You made my foes expose their necks to me;those who hated me I silenced.
42. They cried for help, but no one saved them;cried to the Lord but received no answer.
43. I ground them to dust before the wind;I left them like mud in the streets.
44. You rescued me from the strife of peoples;you made me head over nations.A people I had not known served me;
45. as soon as they heard of me they obeyed.Foreigners submitted before me;
46. foreigners cringed;they came cowering from their dungeons.