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Book of Psalms
Psalm 18
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.
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