18:2 The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my shield, 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 sorrows of death surrounded me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
18:5 The sorrows of sheol surrounded me: the snares of death confronted 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 also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was angry.
18:8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
18:9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
18:10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
18:11 He made darkness his secret place; his canopy round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
18:12 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, with hailstones and coals of fire.
18:13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
18:14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and vanquished them.
18:15 Then the channels of the sea were seen, and the foundations of the world were uncovered at your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of your 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 them who hated me: for they were too strong for me.
18:18 They confronted me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
18:19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
18:20 The LORD 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 judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.
18:23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from my iniquity.
18:24 Therefore has the LORD recompensed 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 an upright man you will show yourself upright;
18:26 With the pure you will show yourself pure; and with the devious you will show yourself shrewd.
18:27 For you will save the humble people; but will bring down haughty looks.
18:28 For you will light my lamp: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
18:29 For by you I have advanced against a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.
18:30 As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is proven: he is a shield to all those that trust in him.
18:31 For who is God except the LORD? or who is a rock 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 teaches my hands to make war, so that a bow of bronze is bent by my arms.
18:35 You have also given me the shield of your salvation: and your right hand has held me up, and your gentleness has made me great.
18:36 You have enlarged my path under me, that my feet did not slip.
18:37 I have pursued my enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.
18:38 I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.
18:39 For you have girded me with strength unto the battle: you have subdued under me those that rose up against me.
18:40 You have also given me the necks of my enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.
18:41 They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
18:42 Then did I beat them as fine as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
18:43 You have delivered me from the strivings of the people; and 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 unto me.
18:45 The foreigners shall fade away, and be frightened out of their fortresses.
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 people under me.
18:48 He delivers me from my enemies: yea, you lift me up above those that rise up against me: you have delivered me from the violent man.
18:49 Therefore will I give thanks unto you, O LORD, among the nations, and sing praises unto your name.
18:50 Great deliverance gives he to his king; and shows mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his descendants forevermore.
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