Psalms 18:1
I love thee, O Jehovah, my strength.
Psalms 18:2
Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I will take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
Psalms 18:3
I will call upon Jehovah, who is worthy to be praised. So I shall be saved from my enemies.
Psalms 18:4
The cords of death encompassed me, and the floods of lawlessness made me afraid.
Psalms 18:5
The cords of Sheol were round about me. The snares of death came upon me.
Psalms 18:6
In my distress I called upon Jehovah, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry before him came into his ears.
Psalms 18:7
Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken because he was angry.
Psalms 18:8
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured. Coals were kindled by it.
Psalms 18:9
He also bowed the heavens, and came down, and thick darkness was under his feet.
Psalms 18:10
And he rode upon a cherub, and flew. Yea, he soared upon the wings of the wind.
Psalms 18:11
He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion round about him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
Psalms 18:12
At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire.
Psalms 18:13
Jehovah also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice, hailstones and coals of fire.
Psalms 18:14
And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them, Yea, lightnings manifold, and discomfited them.
Psalms 18:15
Then the channels of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were laid bare at thy rebuke, O Jehovah, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
Psalms 18:16
He sent from on high, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
Psalms 18:17
He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me.
Psalms 18:18
They came upon me in the day of my calamity, but Jehovah was my stay.
Psalms 18:19
He also brought me forth into a large place. He delivered me because he delighted in me.
Psalms 18:20
Jehovah has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands he has recompensed me.
Psalms 18:21
For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
Psalms 18:22
For all his ordinances were before me, and I put not away his statutes from me.
Psalms 18:23
I was also perfect with him, and I kept myself from my iniquity.
Psalms 18:24
Therefore Jehovah has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
Psalms 18:25
With the merciful thou will show thyself merciful. With the perfect man thou will show thyself perfect.
Psalms 18:26
With the pure thou will show thyself pure. And with the perverse thou will show thyself contrary.
Psalms 18:27
For thou will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes thou will bring down.
Psalms 18:28
For thou will light my lamp. Jehovah my God will lighten my darkness.
Psalms 18:29
For by thee I run upon a troop, and by my God I leap over a wall.
Psalms 18:30
As for God, his way is perfect. The word of Jehovah is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
Psalms 18:31
For who is God, except Jehovah? And who is a rock, besides our God,
Psalms 18:32
the God who girds me with strength, and makes my way perfect?
Psalms 18:33
He makes my feet like hinds' feet, and sets me upon my high places.
Psalms 18:34
He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of brass.
Psalms 18:35
Thou have also given me the shield of thy salvation, and thy right hand has held me up, and thy gentleness has made me great.
Psalms 18:36
Thou have enlarged my steps under me, and my feet have not slipped.
Psalms 18:37
I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. Neither will I turn again till they are consumed.
Psalms 18:38
I will smite them through, so that they shall not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet.
Psalms 18:39
For thou have girded me with strength to the battle. Thou have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
Psalms 18:40
Thou have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.
Psalms 18:41
They cried, but there was none to save, even to Jehovah, but he answered them not.
Psalms 18:42
Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets.
Psalms 18:43
Thou have delivered me from the strivings of the people. Thou have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.
Psalms 18:44
As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.
Psalms 18:45
The foreigners shall fade away, and shall come trembling out of their close places.
Psalms 18:46
Jehovah lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be the God of my salvation,
Psalms 18:47
even the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues peoples under me.
Psalms 18:48
He rescues me from my enemies. Yea, thou lift me up above those who rise up against me. Thou deliver me from the violent man.
Psalms 18:49
Therefore I will give thanks to thee, O Jehovah, among the Gentiles, and will sing praises to thy name.
Psalms 18:50
He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his seed, for evermore.