3The Lord is my Rock, my walled town, and my saviour; my God, my Rock, in him will I put my faith; my breastplate, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
4I will send up my cry to the Lord, who is to be praised; so will I be made safe from those who are against me.
5The cords of death were round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear.
6The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.
7In my trouble my voice went up to the Lord, and my cry to my God: my voice came to his hearing in his holy Temple, and my prayer came before him, even into his ears.
8Then trouble and shock came on the earth; and the bases of the mountains were moved and shaking, because he was angry.
9There went up a smoke from his nose, and a fire of destruction from his mouth: flames were lighted by it.
