NHEBME - Psalms - 18

18:1  I love you, Lord, my strength.

18:2  The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

18:3  I call on the Lord, who is worthy to be praised; and I am saved from my enemies.

18:4  The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

18:5  The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me.

18:6  In my distress I called on the Lord, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

18:7  Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.

18:8  Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.

18:9  He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.

18:10  He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.

18:11  He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

18:12  At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire.

18:13  The Lord also thundered in the sky. The Most High uttered his voice: hailstones and coals of fire.

18:14  He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, great lightning bolts, and routed them.

18:15  Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Lord, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.

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

18:17  He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.

18:18  They came on me in the day of my calamity, but the Lord was my support.

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

18:20  The Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.

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

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

18:23  I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.

18:24  Therefore the Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.

18:25  With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.

18:26  With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.

18:27  For you will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes you will bring down.

18:28  For you will light my lamp, Lord. My God will light up my darkness.

18:29  For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall.

18:30  As for God, his way is perfect. The word of the Lord is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

18:31  For who is God, except the Lord? Who is a rock, besides our God,

18:32  the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?

18:33  He makes my feet like deer's feet, and sets me on my high places.

18:34  He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.

18:35  You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.

18:36  You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.

18:37  I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. Neither will I turn again until they are consumed.

18:38  I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet.

18:39  For you have girded me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

18:40  You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.

18:41  They cried, but there was none to save; even to the Lord, but he did not answer them.

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

18:43  You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

18:44  As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.

18:45  The foreigners shall fade away, and shall come trembling out of their close places.

18:46  The Lord lives; and blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my salvation,

18:47  even the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues peoples under me.

18:48  He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.

18:49  Therefore I will give thanks to you, Lord, among the nations, and will sing praises to your name.

18:50  He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his seed, forevermore.