AB - Psalms - 18

18:1  I will love You, O Lord, my strength.

18:2  The Lord is my firm support, and my refuge, and my deliverer; my God is my helper, I will hope in Him; He is my defender, and the horn of my salvation, and my helper.

18:3  I will call upon the Lord with praises, and I shall be saved from my enemies.

18:4  The pangs of death compassed me, and the torrents of ungodliness troubled me exceedingly.

18:5  The pangs of hell came round about me: the snares of death prevented me.

18:6  And when I was afflicted I called upon the Lord, and cried to my God: He heard my voice out of His holy temple, and my cry shall enter before Him, into His ears.

18:7  Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains were disturbed, and were shaken, because God was angry with them.

18:8  There went up a smoke in His wrath, and fire burst into a flame at His presence; coals were kindled at it.

18:9  And He bowed the heaven, and came down: and thick darkness was under His feet.

18:10  And He rode upon a cherub and flew; He flew on the wings of the wind.

18:11  And He made darkness His secret place; round about Him was His tabernacle, even dark water in the clouds of the air.

18:12  At the brightness before Him the clouds passed, hail and coals of fire.

18:13  The Lord also thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered His voice.

18:14  And He sent forth His weapons, and scattered them; and multiplied lightnings, and routed them.

18:15  And the springs of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed, at Your rebuke, O Lord, at the blasting of the breath of Your wrath.

18:16  He sent from on high and took me, He drew me to Himself out of many waters.

18:17  He will deliver me from my mighty enemies, and from them that hate me; for they are stronger than I.

18:18  They prevented me in the day of my affliction: but the Lord was my support against them.

18:19  And He brought me out into a wide place; He shall deliver me, because He has pleasure in me.

18:20  And the Lord shall recompense me according to my righteousness; even according to the purity of my hands shall He recompense me.

18:21  For I have kept the way of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God.

18:22  For all His judgments were before me, and His ordinances departed not from me.

18:23  And I shall be blameless before Him, and shall keep myself from my iniquity.

18:24  And the Lord shall recompense me according to my righteousness, and according to the purity of my hands before His eyes.

18:25  With the holy, You shall be holy; and with the blameless, You shall be blameless.

18:26  And with the excellent, You shall be excellent; and with the perverse, You shall be shrewd.

18:27  For You shall save the lowly people, and shall humble the eyes of the proud.

18:28  For You, O Lord, shall light my lamp: my God, You shall lighten my darkness.

18:29  For by You shall I be delivered from a troop; and by my God I will pass over a wall.

18:30  As for my God, His way is perfect: the oracles of the Lord are tried in the fire; He is a protector of all them that hope in Him.

18:31  For who is God but the Lord? And who is a God except our God?

18:32  It is God that girds me with strength, and has made my way blameless;

18:33  who strengthens my feet as hare's feet, and sets me upon high places.

18:34  He instructs my hands for war; and You have made my arms as a bronze bow.

18:35  And You have made me secure in my salvation; and Your right hand has helped me, and Your correction has upheld me to the end; yea, Your correction itself shall instruct me.

18:36  You have made room for my goings under me, and my footsteps did not fail.

18:37  I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them; and I will not turn back until they are consumed.

18:38  I will dash them to pieces and they shall not be able to stand: they shall fall under my feet.

18:39  For You have girded me with strength for war; You have beaten down under me all that rose up against me.

18:40  And You has made my enemies turn their backs before me; and You have destroyed them that hated me.

18:41  They cried, but there was no deliverer: even to the Lord, but He hearkened not to them.

18:42  I will grind them as the mud of the streets; and I will beat them small as dust before the wind.

18:43  Deliver me from the gain sayings of the people; You shall make me head of the Gentiles: a people whom I knew not served me,

18:44  at the hearing of the ear they obeyed me: the strange children lied to me.

18:45  The strange children waxed old, and fell away from their paths through lameness.

18:46  The Lord lives; and blessed be my God; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.

18:47  It is God that avenges me, and has subdued the nations under me;

18:48  my deliverer from angry enemies; You shall set me on high above them that rise up against me; You shall deliver me from the unrighteous man.

18:49  Therefore shall I confess to You, O Lord, among the Gentiles, and sing unto Your name.

18:50  God magnifies the deliverances of His king; and deals mercifully with David His anointed, and His seed, forever.