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18:1  I love you, Yahweh, my strength.
18:2  Yahweh 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 Yahweh, 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 Yahweh, 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  Yahweh 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, Yahweh, 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 Yahweh was my support.
18:19  He brought me forth also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
18:20  Yahweh 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 Yahweh, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
18:22  For all his ordinances were before me. I didn't put away his statutes from me.
18:23  I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.
18:24  Therefore Yahweh 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, Yahweh. 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 Yahweh is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
18:31  For who is God, except Yahweh? 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 armed 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 Yahweh, but he didn't 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  Yahweh 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, Yahweh, 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. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.