Darby - Psalms - 18

18:1  I will love thee, O Jehovah, my strength.

18:2  Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; myGod, my rock, in whom I will trust; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

18:3  I will call upon Jehovah, who is to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

18:4  The bands of death encompassed me, and torrents of Belial made me afraid.

18:5  The bands of Sheol surrounded me, the cords of death encountered me.

18:6  In my distress I called upon Jehovah, and I cried out to myGod; he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, into his ears.

18:7  Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains trembled and shook, because he was wroth.

18:8  There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals burned forth from it.

18:9  And he bowed the heavens, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.

18:10  And he rode upon a cherub and did fly; yea, he flew fast upon the wings of the wind.

18:11  He made darkness his secret place, his tent round about him: darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

18:12  From the brightness before him his thick clouds passed forth: hail and coals of fire.

18:13  And Jehovah thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice: hail and coals of fire.

18:14  And he sent his arrows, and scattered [mine enemies]; and he shot forth lightnings, and discomfited them.

18:15  And the beds of the waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were uncovered at thy rebuke, Jehovah, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

18:16  He reached forth from above, he took me, he drew me out of great waters:

18:17  He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me; for they were mightier than I.

18:18  They encountered me in the day of my calamity, but Jehovah was my stay.

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

18:20  Jehovah hath rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

18:21  For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, and have not wickedly departed from myGod.

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

18:23  And I was upright with him, and kept myself from mine iniquity.

18:24  And Jehovah hath recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.

18:25  With the gracious thou dost shew thyself gracious; with the upright man thou dost shew thyself upright;

18:26  With the pure thou dost shew thyself pure; and with the perverse thou dost shew thyself contrary.

18:27  For it is thou that savest the afflicted people; but the haughty eyes wilt thou bring down.

18:28  For it is thou that makest my lamp to shine: Jehovah myGod enlighteneth my darkness.

18:29  For by thee I have run through a troop; and by myGod have I leaped over a wall.

18:30  As forGod, his way is perfect; the word of Jehovah is tried: he is a shield to all that trust in him.

18:31  For who isGod save Jehovah? and who is a rock if not ourGod?

18:32  TheGod who girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect,

18:33  Who maketh my feet like hinds' [feet], and setteth me upon my high places;

18:34  Who teacheth my hands to war, and mine arms bend a bow of brass;

18:35  And thou didst give me the shield of thy salvation, and thy right hand held me up; and thy condescending gentleness hath made me great.

18:36  Thou didst enlarge my steps under me, and mine ankles have not wavered.

18:37  I pursued mine enemies, and overtook them; and I turned not again till they were consumed.

18:38  I crushed them, and they were not able to rise: they fell under my feet.

18:39  And thou girdedst me with strength to battle; thou didst subdue under me those that rose up against me.

18:40  And mine enemies didst thou make to turn their backs unto me, and those that hated me I destroyed.

18:41  They cried, and there was none to save; — unto Jehovah, and he answered them not.

18:42  And I did beat them small as dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the mire of the streets.

18:43  Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; thou hast made me the head of the nations: a people I knew not doth serve me.

18:44  At the hearing of the ear, they obey me: strangers come cringing unto me.

18:45  Strangers have faded away, and they come trembling forth from their close places.

18:46  Jehovah liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be theGod of my salvation,

18:47  TheGod who hath avenged me, and hath subjected the peoples to me;

18:48  Who hath delivered me from mine enemies: yea, thou hast lifted me up above them that rose up against me; from the man of violence hast thou delivered me.

18:49  Therefore will I give thanks to thee, Jehovah, among the nations, and will sing psalms to thy name.

18:50  [It is he] who giveth great deliverances to his king, and sheweth loving-kindness to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.