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To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David, the servant of the LORD, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day [that] the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said, I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.
Ek sal u liefhê, o HERE, my sterkte.
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The LORD [is] my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, [and] my high tower.
Die HERE is my rots, en my vesting, en my verlosser; my God, my krag, op wie ek sal vertrou; my skild, en die horing van my heil, my hoë toring.
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I will call upon the LORD, [who is worthy] to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
Ek sal die HERE aanroep, wat waardig is om geprys te word: so sal ek van my vyande gered word.
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The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
Die smarte van die dood het my omsingel, en die vloede van goddelose manne het my verskrik gemaak.
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The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
Die smarte van die doderyk het my omsingel: die strikke van die dood het my voorkom.
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In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, [even] into his ears.
In my benoudheid het ek die HERE aangeroep, en tot my God geroep: Hy het my stem uit sy tempel gehoor, en my geroep het voor Hom gekom, selfs in sy ore.
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Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
Toe het die aarde geskud en gebewe; die fondamente ook van die heuwels het beweeg en geskud, omdat Hy toornig was.
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There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
Daar het ‚'n rook uit sy neus opgegaan, en vuur uit sy mond het verteer: kole is daardeur aangesteek.
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He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness [was] under his feet.
Hy het die hemele ook gebuig, en afgekom: en duisternis was onder sy voete.
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And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
En Hy het op ‚'n gerub gery, en gevlieg: ja, Hy het gevlieg op die vlerke van die wind.
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He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him [were] dark waters [and] thick clouds of the skies.
Hy het duisternis sy geheime plek gemaak; sy tabernakel rondom Hom was donker waters en dik wolke van die lug.
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At the brightness [that was] before him his thick clouds passed, hail [stones] and coals of fire.
By die helderheid wat voor Hom was het sy dik wolke verbygegaan, haelstene en kole van vuur.
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The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail [stones] and coals of fire.
Die HERE het ook in die hemele gedonder, en die Allerhoogste het sy stem gegee; haelstene en kole van vuur.
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Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
Ja, Hy het sy pyle uitgestuur, en hulle verstrooi; en Hy het weerligte geskiet, en hulle ontsteld gemaak.
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Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
Toe is die kanale van waters gesien, en die fondamente van die wêreld is ontdek by u bestraffing, o HERE, by die asem van die asem van u neus.
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He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
Hy het van bo af gestuur, Hy het my geneem, Hy het my uit baie waters getrek.
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He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.
Hy het my verlos van my sterk vyand, en van dié wat my gehaat het: want hulle was te sterk vir my.
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They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
Hulle het my voorkom in die dag van my onheil: maar die HERE was my steun.
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He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
Hy het my ook uitgebring in ‚'n groot plek; Hy het my verlos, omdat Hy behae in my gehad het.
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The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
Die HERE het my volgens my geregtigheid beloon; volgens die reinheid van my hande het Hy my vergoed.
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For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
Want ek het die weë van die HERE bewaar, en het nie goddeloos van my God afgewyk nie.
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For all his judgments [were] before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.
Want al sy oordele was voor my, en ek het sy insettinge nie van my af weggedoen nie.
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I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.
Ek was ook opreg voor Hom, en ek het myself van my ongeregtigheid bewaar.
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Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
Daarom het die HERE my volgens my geregtigheid vergoed, volgens die reinheid van my hande in sy oësig.
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With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;
By die barmhartige sal U uself barmhartig toon; by ‚'n opreg man sal U uself opreg toon;
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With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
By die reine sal U uself rein toon; en by die verkeerde sal U uself verdraai toon.
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For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
Want U sal die benoudte volk red; maar sal die hoë oë verneder.
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For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
Want U sal my kers aansteek: die HERE my God sal my duisternis verlig.
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For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.
Want deur U het ek deur ‚'n troep gehardloop; en deur my God het ek oor ‚'n muur gespring.
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[As for] God, his way [is] perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he [is] a buckler to all those that trust in him.
Wat God betref, sy weg is volkome: die woord van die HERE is beproef: Hy is ‚'n skild vir almal wat op Hom vertrou.
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For who [is] God save the LORD? or who [is] a rock save our God?
Want wie is God behalwe die HERE? of wie is ‚'n rots behalwe onse God?
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[It is] God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.
Dit is God wat my met krag omgord, en my weg volkome maak.
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He maketh my feet like hinds’ [feet], and setteth me upon my high places.
Hy maak my voete soos die van ’n hert, en sit my op my hoë plekke.
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He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
Hy leer my hande om te oorlog, sodat ‚'n boog van staal deur my arms verbreek is.
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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.
U het my ook die skild van u heil gegee: en u regterhand het my ondersteun, en u sagmoedigheid het my groot gemaak.
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Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
U het my treë onder my verbreed, dat my voete nie gly nie.
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I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.
Ek het my vyande agtervolg, en hulle ingehaal: en ek het nie omgekeer totdat hulle verteer was nie.
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I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.
Ek het hulle verwond, dat hulle nie kon opstaan nie: hulle is onder my voete geval.
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For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.
Want U het my met krag tot die geveg omgord: U het dié wat teen my opgestaan het, onder my onderwerp.
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Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.
U het my ook die nekke van my vyande gegee; dat ek dié mag vernietig wat my haat.
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They cried, but [there was] none to save [them: even] unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
Hulle het geroep, maar daar was niemand om te red nie: selfs tot die HERE, maar Hy het hulle nie geantwoord nie.
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Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
Toe het ek hulle so fyn gemaal soos die stof voor die wind: ek het hulle uitgegooi soos die slyk in die strate.
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Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; [and] thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people [whom] I have not known shall serve me.
U het my verlos van die twiste van die volk; en U het my die hoof van die heidene gemaak: ‚'n volk wat ek nie geken het nie, sal my dien.
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As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.
Sodra hulle van my hoor, sal hulle my gehoorsaam: die vreemdelinge sal hulle aan my onderwerp.
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The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.
Die vreemdelinge sal wegteer, en bevrees wees uit hulle digte plekke.
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The LORD liveth; and blessed [be] my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.
Die HERE lewe; en geseënd is my rots; en laat die God van my heil verhef word.
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[It is] God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.
Dit is God wat my wraak uitvoer, en die volk onder my onderwerp.
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He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.
Hy verlos my van my vyande: ja, U hef my op bo dié wat teen my opstaan: U het my verlos van die geweldadige man.
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Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name.
Daarom sal ek U dank, o HERE, onder die heidene, en tot u Naam sing.
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Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.
Groot verlossing gee Hy aan sy koning; en toon barmhartigheid aan sy gesalfde, aan Dawid, en aan sy saad vir ewig.