ABP - Psalms - 18

18:1  I shall love you, O lord, of my strength.

18:2  The lord is my firmament, and my refuge, and my rescuer. My God is my helper, and I will hope upon him; my defender and horn of my deliverance, and my shielder.

18:3  In praising, I will call upon the lord; and from my enemies I shall be delivered.

18:4  [3compassed 4me 1Pangs 2of death], and rushing streams of lawlessness disturbed me.

18:5  Pangs of Hades surrounded me; [3anticipated 4me 1snares 2of death].

18:6  And in my being afflicted I called upon the lord, and to my God I cried out. He heard [2from out of 4temple 3his holy 1my voice], and my cry before him shall enter into his ears.

18:7  And it was shaken; and trembling took place on the earth; and the foundations of the mountains were disturbed and shaken; for [2was provoked to anger 3by them 1God].

18:8  [2ascended 1Smoke] in his anger, and fire from in front of him. [2shall be ignited 1Coals]; they were lit by him.

18:9  And he leaned the heavens, and came down, and dimness was under his feet.

18:10  And he mounted upon cherubim, and he spread out; he spread out upon wings of winds.

18:11  And he established darkness for his concealment. Round about him was his tent; dark water in clouds of air.

18:12  From the radiance of his presence the clouds went by; hail and coals of fire.

18:13  And [2thundered 3from out of 4heaven 1the lord], and the highest uttered his voice.

18:14  And he sent out arrows, and dispersed them; and [2lightnings 1he multiplied], and disturbed them.

18:15  And appeared the springs of waters; and [5were uncovered 1the 2foundations 3of the 4inhabitable world] from your reproach, O lord, from the blasting breath of your anger.

18:16  He sent from the height, and he took me; he took me to himself from out of [2waters 1many].

18:17  He will rescue me from [3enemies 1my 2mighty], and from the ones detesting me; for they are more solidified than me.

18:18  They went before me in the day of my ill-treatment, and the lord became my support.

18:19  And he brought me into an enlargement. He shall rescue me, for he wanted me.

18:20  And [2shall recompense 3to me 1the lord] according to my righteousness; even according to the cleanliness of my hands he will recompense to me.

18:21  For I guarded the ways of the lord, and did not impiously depart from my God.

18:22  For all his judgments are before me; and his ordinances did not leave from me.

18:23  And I will be unblemished with him; and I shall guard myself from my lawlessness.

18:24  And [2shall recompense 3to me 1the lord] according to my righteousness, and according to the cleanliness of my hands before his eyes.

18:25  With the sacred you shall be sacred; and with [2man 1the innocent] you shall be innocent;

18:26  and with the choice one, you will be choice; and with the crooked you shall turn aside from.

18:27  For you [3people 2the humble 1will deliver], and the eyes of the proud you will humble.

18:28  For you shall light my lamp, O lord my God; you shall lighten my darkness.

18:29  For by you I shall be rescued from the band of marauders; and by my God I shall pass over the wall.

18:30  My God -- unblemished is his way. The oracles of the lord are tried by fire. He is a defender of all the ones hoping upon him.

18:31  For who is God besides the lord? Or who is God besides our God?

18:32  God is the one girding me with power, and makes [2unblemished 1my way];

18:33  the one readying my feet as a stag, and [3upon 4the 5high places 1setting 2me];

18:34  teaching my hands for war; and you made [2as the bow 3of brass 1my arms];

18:35  and you gave to me a shielding deliverance; and your right hand takes hold of me; and your instruction re-erects me unto the end; and your instruction itself teaches me.

18:36  You widened my footsteps underneath me, and [2weakened not 1my soles].

18:37  I shall pursue my enemies and overtake them; and I will not return until whenever they should cease.

18:38  I shall squeeze them, and in no way should they be able to stand; they shall fall under my feet.

18:39  And you girded me in power for war; you bound hand and foot all the ones rising up against me underneath me.

18:40  And [4of my enemies 1you gave 2to me 3the back]; and the ones detesting me you utterly destroyed.

18:41  They cried out [3and 4there was no one 5delivering 1to 2the lord], and he did not hear them.

18:42  And I will make them as fine as dust against the face of the wind; as mud in the squares I will grind them.

18:43  You shall rescue me from a dispute of people; you shall place me at the head of nations; a people whom I knew not shall serve to me;

18:44  in the hearing of the ear they obeyed me. [2sons 1Alien] lied to me.

18:45  [2sons 1Alien] grew old and became lame from their paths.

18:46  The lord lives, and blessed is God, and [4is raised up high 1the 2God 3of my deliverance].

18:47  The God, the one granting acts of vengeance to me, and submitting peoples under me;

18:48  my rescuer from my enemies prone to anger. [2from 3the ones 4rising up 5against 6me 1You raised me up high]; from [2man 1the unjust] you shall rescue me.

18:49  On account of this I shall make acknowledgment to you among the nations, O lord, and to your name I shall strum;

18:50  the one magnifying the deliverance of the king; and appointing mercy to his anointed one, to David and to his seed unto the eon.