Jubilee2000 - Psalms - 18

18:1  <>I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.

18:2  The LORD [is] my rock and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, [and] my high tower.

18:3  I will call upon the LORD, [who is worthy] to be praised, so shall I be saved from my enemies.

18:4  The pain of death compassed me, and the rivers of Belial made me afraid.

18:5  The pain of Sheol compassed me about: the snares of death came before me.

18:6  In my distress I called upon the LORD and cried unto my God; he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, [even] into his ears.

18:7  Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of the mountains collapsed and were removed because he was wroth.

18:8  Smoke went up out of his nostrils, and fire devoured out of his mouth; coals were kindled by it.

18:9  He lowered the heavens and came down; and darkness [was] under his feet.

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

18:11  He made darkness his hiding place; in his tabernacle round about him [were] dark waters [and] thick clouds of the heavens.

18:12  At the brightness [that was] before him his thick clouds passed, hail [stones] and coals of fire.

18:13  The LORD thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail [stones] and coals of fire.

18:14  He sent out his arrows and scattered them; he shot out lightnings and destroyed them.

18:15  Then the depths of the waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

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

18:17  He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hated me, even though they were too strong for me.

18:18  They were ready for me in the day of my calamity, but the LORD was my staff.

18:19  He brought me forth also into a wide place; he delivered me because he delighted in me.

18:20  The LORD will reward me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he shall recompense me.

18:21  Because I have kept the ways of the LORD and did not become wicked [departing] in apostasy from my God.

18:22  For all his judgments [were] before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.

18:23  I was perfect before him, and I kept myself from my iniquity.

18:24  Therefore the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands before his eyes.

18:25  With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful; with a perfect man thou wilt show thyself perfect;

18:26  with the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; and with the perverse thou wilt show thyself adversary.

18:27  Therefore thou wilt save the humble people; but wilt bring down high looks.

18:28  For thou wilt light my fire: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.

18:29  For with thee I have scattered armies; and in my God I have overcome walled [defences].

18:30  [As for] God, his way [is] perfect: the word of the LORD is precise: a shield to all those that wait in him.

18:31  For who [is] God except the LORD? or who [is] a refuge except our God?

18:32  [It is] God that girds me with strength and makes my way perfect.

18:33  He makes my feet like hinds' [feet] and sets me upon my high places.

18:34  He trains my hands for the battle, so that a bow of bronze shall be broken by my arms.

18:35  [In the same manner] thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand will hold me up, and thy meekness shall multiply me.

18:36  Thou shall enlarge my steps under me, and my knees shall not tremble.

18:37  I shall pursue my enemies and overtake them: neither shall I turn again until they are consumed.

18:38  I shall smite them, and they will not be able to rise: they shall fall under my feet.

18:39  For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued my enemies under me.

18:40  Thou hast also given me the necks of my enemies that I might destroy those that hate me.

18:41  They cried out, but [there was] no one to save [them]: [even] unto the LORD, but he did not answer them.

18:42  Then I beat them as small as the dust before the wind: I scattered them as the dirt in the streets.

18:43  Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; [and] thou hast made me the head of the Gentiles: a people [whom] I did not know served me.

18:44  As soon as they heard of me, they obeyed me: the sons of strangers submitted themselves unto me even [against their will].

18:45  The strangers fell away and were afraid in their close places.

18:46  The LORD lives; and blessed [be] my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.

18:47  [It is] God that avenges me and subdues the peoples under me.

18:48  He delivers me from my enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the one who would betray me.

18:49  Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the Gentiles and sing praises unto thy name.

18:50  He gives great deliverance to his king and shows mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.: