Bible, King James Version
Psalms
Pss.18
[1] I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.
[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.
[3] I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be
praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
[4] The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of
ungodly men made me afraid.
[5] The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of
death prevented me.
[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.
[7] Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations
also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was
wroth.
[8] There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire
out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
[9] He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness
was under his feet.
[10] And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did
fly upon the wings of the wind.
[11] He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round
about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
[12] At the brightness that was before him his thick
clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
[13] The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the
Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
[14] Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and
he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
[15] Then the channels of 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.
[16] He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of
many waters.
[17] He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them
which hated me: for they were too strong for me.
[18] They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the
LORD was my stay.
[19] He brought me forth also into a large place; he
delivered me, because he delighted in me.
[20] The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness;
according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed
me.
[21] For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not
wickedly departed from my God.
[22] For all his judgments were before me, and I did not
put away his statutes from me.
[23] I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from
mine iniquity.
[24] Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to
my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his
eyesight.
[25] With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful;
with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;
[26] With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with
the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
[27] For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt
bring down high looks.
[28] For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will
enlighten my darkness.
[29] For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God
have I leaped over a wall.
[30] As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD
is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.
[31] For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save
our God?
[32] It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh
my way perfect.
[33] He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me
upon my high places.
[34] He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel
is broken by mine arms.
[35] Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation:
and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath
made me great.
[36] Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet
did not slip.
[37] I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them:
neither did I turn again till they were consumed.
[38] I have wounded them that they were not able to rise:
they are fallen under my feet.
[39] For thou hast girded me with strength unto the
battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against
me.
[40] Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies;
that I might destroy them that hate me.
[41] They cried, but there was none to save them: even
unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
[42] Then did I beat them small as the dust before the
wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
[43] Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the
people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people
whom I have not known shall serve me.
[44] As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the
strangers shall submit themselves unto me.
[45] The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of
their close places.
[46] The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the
God of my salvation be exalted.
[47] It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people
under me.
[48] He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest
me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me
from the violent man.
[49] Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among
the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name.
[50] Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth
mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for
evermore.
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