23. I was also perfect with him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.
24. Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
25. With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with the perfect man thou wilt shew thyself perfect;
26. With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the perverse thou wilt shew thyself froward.
27. For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but the haughty eyes thou wilt bring down.
28. For thou wilt light my lamp: the Lord my God will lighten my darkness.
29. For by thee I run upon a troop; and by my God do I leap over a wall.
30. As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the Lord is tried; he is a shield unto all them that trust in him.
31. For who is God, save the Lord? and who is a rock, beside our God?
32. The God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.
33. He maketh my feet like hinds' feet: and setteth me upon my high places,
34. He teacheth my hands to war; so that mine arms do bend a bow of brass.
35. Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.
36. Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, and my feet have not slipped.
37. I will pursue mine enemies, and overtake them: neither will I turn again till they are consumed.
38. I will smite them through that they shall not be able to rise: they shall fall under my feet.
39. For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.
40. Thou hast also made mine enemies turn their backs unto me, that I might cut off them that hate me.
41. They cried, but there was none to save: even unto the Lord, but he answered them not.
42. Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the mire of the streets.
43. Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; thou hast made me the head of the nations: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.