²¹ “The Lord dealt with me according to my righteousness;
    according to the cleanness of my hands he rewarded me.
²² For I have kept the ways of the Lord
    and have not wickedly departed from my God.
²³ For all his rules were before me,
    and from his statutes I did not turn aside.
²⁴ I was blameless before him,
    and I kept myself from guilt.
²⁵ And the Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness,
    according to my cleanness in his sight.

²⁶ “With the merciful you show yourself merciful;
    with the blameless man you show yourself blameless;
²⁷ with the purified you deal purely,
    and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.
²⁸ You save a humble people,
    but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.
²⁹ For you are my lamp, O Lord,
    and my God lightens my darkness.
³⁰ For by you I can run against a troop,
    and by my God I can leap over a wall.
³¹ This God—his way is perfect;
    the word of the Lord proves true;
    he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.