Rotherham - Psalms - 18

18:1  I will love thee, O Yahweh my strength!

18:2  Yahweh, was my mountain crag and my stronghold, and my deliverer: My GOD, was my rock, I sought refuge in him, My shield, and my horn of salvation, my high tower.

18:3  As one worthy to be praised, called I on Yahweh,—And, from my foes, was I saved.

18:4  The meshes of death encompassed me, The torrents of perdition, made me afraid;

18:5  The meshes of hades, had surrounded me, The snares of death, had confronted me,

18:6  In my distress, called I on Yahweh, And, unto my God, made outcry for help, He heard, out of his temple, my voice, And my outcry for help came before him—entered into his ears!

18:7  Then did the earth shake and quake, Even, the foundations of the mountains, were deeply moved, Yea they did shake, because he was angry.

18:8  There went up smoke in his nostrils, and, a fire out of his mouth, devoured, Live coals, were kindled from it:

18:9  Then he stretched out the heaven, and came down,—and, thick gloom, was under his feet;

18:10  Then he rode on a cherub, and flew, and darted on the wings of the wind;

18:11  Made darkness his hiding-place, Round about him—his pavilion, Darkness of waters, clouds of vapours.

18:12  Out of the brightness before him, his clouds rolled along, hail, and live coals of fire.

18:13  Then did Yahweh thunder in the heavens, and the Highest uttered his voice,—hail, and live coals of fire.

18:14  And he sent forth his arrows and scattered them, yea, lightnings, he shot out, and confused them.

18:15  Then appeared the channels of waters, were uncovered the foundations of the world,—At thy rebuke O Yahweh, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

18:16  He sent from on high, he took me,—he drew me out of many waters.

18:17  He rescued me from my foe, in his might, and from them who hated me, because they were too strong for me:

18:18  They confronted me, in the day of my necessity, Then became Yahweh my stay:

18:19  And brought me out, into a large place, he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

18:20  Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands, he repaid me;

18:21  For I had kept the ways of Yahweh, and not broken away from my God;

18:22  For, all his regulations, were before me, and, his statutes, did I not put from me:

18:23  So became I blameless with him, and kept myself from mine iniquity.

18:24  Yahweh therefore repaid me according to my righteousness, according to the pureness of my hands, before his eyes.

18:25  With the loving, thou didst show thyself loving,—With the blameless man, thou didst show thyself blameless;

18:26  With the pure, thou didst show thyself pure, But, with the perverse, thou didst show thyself ready to contend.

18:27  For, as for thee, an oppressed people, thou didst save, but, looks that were lofty, layedst thou low;

18:28  For, thou, didst light up my lamp, Yahweh my God, enlightened my darkness;

18:29  For, by thee, I ran through a troop, and, by my God, I leapt over a wall.

18:30  As for GOD, blameless is his way, The speech of Yahweh hath been proved, A shield, he is to all who seek refuge in him.

18:31  For who is a GOD, save Yahweh? And who is a Rock, save our God?

18:32  The GOD who girded me with strength, and set forth, as blameless, my way:

18:33  Planting my feet like hinds’ [feet], yea, on my high places, he caused me to stand:

18:34  Teaching my hands to war,—so that a bow of bronze was bent by mine arms.

18:35  Thus didst thou grant me, as a shield, thy salvation,—and, thy right hand, sustained me, and, thy condescension, made me great.

18:36  Thou didst widen my stepping-places under me, so that, mine ankles, faltered not.

18:37  I pursued my foes, and overtook them, and returned not, till they were consumed:

18:38  I crushed them, and they were unable to rise, They fell under my feet.

18:39  Thus didst thou gird me with strength, for the battle, Thou subduedst mine assailants under me.

18:40  As for my foes, thou didst give me their neck, and, as for them who hated me, I destroyed them.

18:41  They cried out, but there was none to save, unto Yahweh, but he answered them not.

18:42  Then did I beat them in pieces, like dust on the face of the wind. Like the mire in the lanes, did I scatter them.

18:43  Thus didst thou rescue me from the contentions of a people,—didst appoint me to be the head of nations, A people I had not known, served me:

18:44  At the hearing of the ear, they submitted to me, the sons of the foreigner, came cringing unto me:

18:45  The sons of the foreigner, lost heart, and came quaking out of their fortresses.

18:46  Yahweh liveth and, blessed, be my Rock, yea, exalted, be the God of my salvation:

18:47  The GOD, who hath avenged me,—and subjugated peoples under me:

18:48  Who hath delivered me from my foes,—Yea, from mine assailants, hast thou set me on high, From the man of violence, hast thou rescued me.

18:49  For this cause, will I praise thee among the nations, O Yahweh, and, to thy Name, will I sweep the strings:—

18:50  Who hath made great the victories of his King,—and shown lovingkindness to his Anointed One, To David and to his Seed, Unto times age-abiding.