Psa 18:1 <<For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of the LORD,
who spoke to the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD
delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of
Sha'ul. He said,>> I love you, LORD, my strength.
Psa 18:2 The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God,
my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my
salvation, my high tower.
Psa 18:3 I call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; and I am
saved from my enemies.
Psa 18:4 The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness
made me afraid.
Psa 18:5 The cords of She'ol were around me. The snares of death came on me.
Psa 18:6 In my distress I called on the LORD, and cried to my God. He
heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his
ears.
Psa 18:7 Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of
the mountains quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.
Psa 18:8 Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of
his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.
Psa 18:9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was
under his feet.
Psa 18:10 He rode on a Keruv, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings
of the wind.
Psa 18:11 He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him,
darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
Psa 18:12 At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed,
hailstones and coals of fire.
Psa 18:13 The LORD also thundered in the sky. The Elyon uttered his
voice: hailstones and coals of fire.
Psa 18:14 He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, great
lightning bolts, and routed them.
Psa 18:15 Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of
the world were laid bare at your rebuke, LORD, at the blast of the
breath of your nostrils.
Psa 18:16 He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.
Psa 18:17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated
me; for they were too mighty for me.
Psa 18:18 They came on me in the day of my calamity, but the LORD was
my support.
Psa 18:19 He brought me forth also into a large place. He delivered
me, because he delighted in me.
Psa 18:20 The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness.
According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
Psa 18:21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly
departed from my God.
Psa 18:22 For all his ordinances were before me. I didn't put away
his statutes from me.
Psa 18:23 I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.
Psa 18:24 Therefore the LORD has rewarded me according to my
righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
Psa 18:25 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the
perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.
Psa 18:26 With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the
crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
Psa 18:27 For you will save the afflicted people, but the haughty
eyes you will bring down.
Psa 18:28 For you will light my lamp, the LORD. My God will light up
my darkness.
Psa 18:29 For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap
over a wall.
Psa 18:30 As for God, his way is perfect. The word of the LORD is
tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
Psa 18:31 For who is God, except the LORD? Who is a rock, besides our God,
Psa 18:32 the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?
Psa 18:33 He makes my feet like deer's feet, and sets me on my high places.
Psa 18:34 He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.
Psa 18:35 You have also given me the shield of your yeshu`ah. Your
right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.
Psa 18:36 You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.
Psa 18:37 I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. Neither will I
turn again until they are consumed.
Psa 18:38 I will strike them through, so that they will not be able
to rise. They shall fall under my feet.
Psa 18:39 For you have girded me with strength to the battle. You
have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
Psa 18:40 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that
I might cut off those who hate me.
Psa 18:41 They cried, but there was none to save; even to the LORD,
but he didn't answer them.
Psa 18:42 Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast
them out as the mire of the streets.
Psa 18:43 You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You
have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known
shall serve me.
Psa 18:44 As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The
foreigners shall submit themselves to me.
Psa 18:45 The foreigners shall fade away, and shall come trembling
out of their close places.
Psa 18:46 The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God
of my salvation,
Psa 18:47 even the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues
peoples under me.
Psa 18:48 He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above
those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.
Psa 18:49 Therefore I will give thanks to you, LORD, among the
nations, and will sing praises to your name.
Psa 18:50 He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving
kindness to his anointed, to David and to his seed, forevermore.
GOD JESUS SAVIOR