²¹“The Lord cdealt with me according to my righteousness;

according to the dcleanness of my hands he rewarded me.

²²eFor I have kept the ways of the Lord

and have not wickedly departed from my God.

²³fFor all his rules were before me,

and from his statutes I did not turn aside.

²⁴I was gblameless before him,

and I kept myself from guilt.

²⁵dAnd the Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness,

according to my cleanness in his sight.

²⁶h“With the merciful you show yourself merciful;

with the gblameless man you show yourself blameless;

²⁷with the purified you deal purely,

and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.

²⁸iYou save a humble people,

jbut your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.

²⁹kFor you are my lamp, O Lord,

and my God lightens my darkness.

³⁰For by you I can run against a troop,

and by my God I can leap over a wall.

³¹This God—lhis way is perfect;

the mword of the Lord proves true;

he is na shield for all those who take refuge in him.

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