4. I will call upon the Lord, who is praiseworthy; and I will be saved from my enemies.
5. For the pangs of death have encircled me. The torrents of Belial have terrified me.
6. The ropes of Hell have encompassed me. The snares of death have intercepted me.
7. In my tribulation, I will call upon the Lord, and I will cry out to my God. And he will heed my voice from his temple, and my outcry will reach his ears.
8. The earth was shaken, and it quaked. The foundations of the mountains were struck together and violently shaken, because he was angry with them.
9. Smoke ascends from his nostrils, and fire from his mouth will devour; coals have been kindled by it.
10. He bent down the heavens, and it descended; and a fog was beneath his feet.
11. And he climbed upon the cherubim, and he flew; and he slid upon the wings of the wind.
12. He set darkness as a hiding place around himself, with waters sifted from the clouds of the heavens.
13. By means of the brightness of his glance, coals of fire were kindled.
14. The Lord will thunder from heaven; and the Most High will utter his voice.
15. He shot arrows, and he scattered them; lightning, and he consumed them.
16. And the overflow of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the globe were revealed, at the rebuke of the Lord, at the exhale of the breath of his fury.
17. He sent from on high, and he took me up. And he drew me out of many waters.
18. He freed me from my most powerful enemy and from those who had hated me. For they were too strong for me.
19. He went before me in the day of my affliction, and the Lord became my firmament.
20. And he led me out to a wide-open place. He freed me, because I was pleasing to him.
21. The Lord will reward me according to my justice. And he will repay me according to the cleanness of my hands.
22. For I have kept to the ways of the Lord, and I have not acted impiously before my God.
23. For all his judgments are in my sight. And I have not removed his precepts from me.
24. And I shall be perfect with him. And I shall guard myself from my own iniquity.