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Psalm 18
To the chief musician, A psalm of David, the servant of the Lord,
who spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the day
that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies,
and from the hand of Saul: And he said,
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King James Version of the
Bible
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.1
References and notes
1. King James Authorized Version
2. Seventh-day Adventist
Bible Commentary Vol. 3 pg. 671
3. Matthew Henry Bible Commentary
- http://eword.gospelcom.net/comments/psalm/mh/psalm18.htm |
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