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