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And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day [that] the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:
En Dawid het die woorde van hierdie lied tot die HERE gespreek op die dag toe die HERE hom gered het uit die hand van al sy vyande, en uit die hand van Saul:
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And he said, The LORD [is] my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
En hy het gesê, Die HERE is my rots, en my vesting, en my verlosser;
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The God of my rock; in him will I trust: [he is] my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.
Die God van my rots; in Hom sal ek vertrou: Hy is my skild, en die horing van my heil, my hoë toring, en my toevlug, my Verlosser; U red my van geweld.
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I will call on the LORD, [who is] worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
Ek sal die HERE aanroep, wat lofwaardig is: so sal ek gered word van my vyande.
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When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;
Toe die golwe van die dood my omsingel het, het die strome van onheil my verskrik;
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The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
Die bande van die doderyk het my omsingel; die strikke van die dood was voor my.
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In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry [did enter] into his ears.
In my benoudheid het ek die HERE aangeroep, en tot my God geroep: en Hy het my stem uit sy tempel gehoor, en my geroep is in sy ore.
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Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.
Toe het die aarde geskud en gebewe; die fondamente van die hemel 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 rook uit sy neus opgegaan, en vuur uit sy mond 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 neergelaat, en afgekom; en duisternis was onder sy voete.
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And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind.
En Hy het op ‚'n gerub gery, en gevlieg: en Hy is op die vleuels van die wind gesien.
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And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, [and] thick clouds of the skies.
En Hy het duisternis tot tabernakels rondom Hom gemaak, donker waters, en digte wolke van die hemele.
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Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.
Deur die helderheid voor Hom is kole van vuur aangesteek.
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The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.
Die HERE het uit die hemel gedonder, en die Allerhoogste het sy stem laat hoor.
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And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.
En Hy het pyle gestuur, en hulle verstrooi; weerlig, en hulle verwar.
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And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
En die kanale van die see het verskyn, die fondamente van die wêreld is ontbloot, by die bestraffing van die HERE, by die geblaas van die asem van sy neus.
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He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;
Hy het van bo gestuur, Hy het my geneem; Hy het my uit baie waters uitgetrek;
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He delivered me from my strong enemy, [and] from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.
Hy het my gered van my sterk vyand, en van hulle 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 ruimte; Hy het my gered, 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 vergoed volgens my geregtigheid: 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 was nie goddeloos van my God af nie.
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For all his judgments [were] before me: and [as for] his statutes, I did not depart from them.
Want al sy oordele was voor my: en wat sy insettinge betref, ek het nie daarvan afgewyk nie.
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I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity.
Ek was ook opreg voor Hom, en het myself van my ongeregtigheid bewaar.
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Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.
Daarom het die HERE my vergoed volgens my geregtigheid; volgens my reinheid in sy oë.
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With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, [and] with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.
By die barmhartige sal U Uself barmhartig bewys, en by die opregte man sal U Uself opreg bewys.
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With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.
By die reine sal U Uself rein bewys; en by die verkeerde sal U Uself teëgaan.
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And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes [are] upon the haughty, [that] thou mayest bring [them] down.
En die verdrukte volk sal U red: maar u oë is op die hoogmoediges, dat U hulle mag verneder.
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For thou [art] my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.
Want U is my lamp, o HERE: en die HERE sal my duisternis verlig.
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For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall.
Want deur U het ek deur ‚'n troep gehardloop: 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 them that trust in him.
Wat God betref, sy weg is volmaak; 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? and who [is] a rock, save our God?
Want wie is God, behalwe die HERE? en wie is ‚'n rots, behalwe onse God?
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God [is] my strength [and] power: and he maketh my way perfect.
God is my krag en krag: en Hy maak my weg volmaak.
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He maketh my feet like hinds’ [feet]: and setteth me upon my high places.
Hy maak my voete soos dié van hindes: en sit my op my hoogtes.
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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 gebreek word.
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Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great.
U het my ook die skild van u heil gegee: en u sagmoedigheid het my groot gemaak.
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Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip.
U het my treë onder my vergroot; sodat my voete nie uitgegly het nie.
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I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them.
Ek het my vyande agtervolg, en hulle vernietig; en het nie omgedraai totdat ek hulle verteer het nie.
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And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.
En ek het hulle verteer, en hulle verwond, dat hulle nie kon opstaan nie: ja, hulle is onder my voete geval.
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For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.
Want U het my met krag tot die geveg omgord: hulle wat teen my opgestaan het, het U onder my laat buk.
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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 die wat my haat, mag vernietig.
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They looked, but [there was] none to save; [even] unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
Hulle het gekyk, 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 as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, [and] did spread them abroad.
Toe het ek hulle fyn gemaal soos die stof van die aarde, ek het hulle gestamp soos die modder van die strate, en hulle uitgesprei.
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Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me [to be] head of the heathen: a people [which] I knew not shall serve me.
U het my ook gered van die twiste van my volk, U het my bewaar om ‚'n hoof van die nasies te wees: ‚'n volk wat ek nie geken het nie, sal my dien.
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Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me.
Vreemdelinge sal hulle aan my onderwerp: sodra hulle hoor, sal hulle my gehoorsaam wees.
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Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.
Vreemdelinge sal verkwyn, en beangs wees uit hulle toegeslote plekke.
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The LORD liveth; and blessed [be] my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.
Die HERE lewe; en geseënd is my rots; en verhoog moet die God van die rots van my heil wees.
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It [is] God that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people under me,
Dit is God wat my wraak gee, en die volk onder my bring,
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And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.
En my uitbring onder my vyande: U verhoog my ook bo hulle wat teen my opstaan: U het my gered van die gewelddadige man.
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Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name.
Daarom sal ek U dank, o HERE, onder die heidene, en aan u Naam sing.
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[He is] the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.
Hy is die toring van heil vir sy koning: en bewys barmhartigheid aan sy gesalfde, aan Dawid, en aan sy saad vir ewig.