Psalms
18:1 I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.
18:2 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.
18:3 I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be
saved from mine enemies.
18:4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me
afraid.
18:5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented
me.
18:6 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.
18:7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills
moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
18:8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth
devoured: coals were kindled by it.
18:9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his
feet.
18:10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings
of the wind.
18:11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were
dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
18:12 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail
stones and coals of fire.
18:13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice;
hail stones and coals of fire.
18:14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out
lightnings, and discomfited them.
18:15 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.
18:16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
18:17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for
they were too strong for me.
18:18 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
18:19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he
delighted in me.
18:20 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the
cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
18:21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed
from my God.
18:22 For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his
statutes from me.
18:23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.
18:24 Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness,
according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
18:25 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man
thou wilt shew thyself upright;
18:26 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou
wilt shew thyself froward.
18:27 For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
18:28 For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my
darkness.
18:29 For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over
a wall.
18:30 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.
18:31 For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God?
18:32 It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.
18:33 He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places.
18:34 He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine
arms.
18:35 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.
18:36 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
18:37 I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn
again till they were consumed.
18:38 I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen
under my feet.
18:39 For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued
under me those that rose up against me.
18:40 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy
them that hate me.
18:41 They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he
answered them not.
18:42 Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them
out as the dirt in the streets.
18:43 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.
18:44 As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall
submit themselves unto me.
18:45 The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.
18:46 The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation
be exalted.
18:47 It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.
18:48 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.
18:49 Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and
sing praises unto thy name.
18:50 Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his
anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.
