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Psalm 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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