Psalms 18 : 1 (LXXEN)
- I will love thee, O Lord, my strength.
Psalms 18 : 2 (LXXEN)
The Lord is my firm support, and my refuge, and my deliverer; my God is my helper, I will hope in him; he is my defender, and the horn of my salvation, and my helper.
Psalms 18 : 3 (LXXEN)
I will call upon the Lord with praises, and I shall be saved from mine enemies.
Psalms 18 : 4 (LXXEN)
The pangs of death compassed me, and the torrents of ungodliness troubled me exceedingly.
Psalms 18 : 5 (LXXEN)
The pangs of hell came round about me: the snares of death prevented me.
Psalms 18 : 6 (LXXEN)
And when I was afflicted I called upon the Lord, and cried to my God: he heard my voice out of this holy temple, and my cry shall enter before him, even into his ears.
Psalms 18 : 7 (LXXEN)
Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains were disturbed, and were shaken, because God was angry with them.
Psalms 18 : 8 (LXXEN)
There went up a smoke in his wrath, and fire burst into a flame at his presence: coals were kindled at it.
Psalms 18 : 9 (LXXEN)
And he bowed the heaven, and came down: and thick darkness was under his feet.
Psalms 18 : 10 (LXXEN)
And he mounted on cherubs and flew: he flew on the wings of winds.
Psalms 18 : 11 (LXXEN)
And he made darkness his secret place: round about him was his tabernacle, even dark water in the clouds of the air.
Psalms 18 : 12 (LXXEN)
At the brightness before him the clouds passed, hail and coals of fire.
Psalms 18 : 13 (LXXEN)
The Lord also thundered from heaven, and the Highest uttered his voice.
Psalms 18 : 14 (LXXEN)
And he sent forth his weapons, and scattered them; and multiplied lightnings, and routed them.
Psalms 18 : 15 (LXXEN)
And the springs of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed, at thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blasting of the breath of thy wrath.
Psalms 18 : 16 (LXXEN)
He sent from on high and took me, he drew me to himself out of many waters.
Psalms 18 : 17 (LXXEN)
He will deliver me from my mighty enemies, and from them that hate me; for they are stronger than I.
Psalms 18 : 18 (LXXEN)
They prevented me in the day of mine affliction: but the Lord was my stay against them.
Psalms 18 : 19 (LXXEN)
And he brought me out into a wide place: he will deliver me, because he has pleasure in me.
Psalms 18 : 20 (LXXEN)
And the Lord will recompense me according to my righteousness; even according to the purity of my hands will he recompense me.
Psalms 18 : 21 (LXXEN)
For I have kept the way of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God.
Psalms 18 : 22 (LXXEN)
For all his judgements were before me, and his ordinances departed not from me.
Psalms 18 : 23 (LXXEN)
And I shall be blameless with hem, and shall keep myself from mine iniquity.
Psalms 18 : 24 (LXXEN)
And the Lord shall recompense me according to my righteousness, and according to the purity of my hands before his eyes.
Psalms 18 : 25 (LXXEN)
With the holy thou wilt be holy; and with the innocent man thou wilt be innocent.
Psalms 18 : 26 (LXXEN)
And with the excellent man thou wilt be excellent; and with the perverse thou wilt shew frowardness.
Psalms 18 : 27 (LXXEN)
For thou wilt save the lowly people, and wilt humble the eyes of the proud.
Psalms 18 : 28 (LXXEN)
For thou, O Lord, wilt light my lamp: my God, thou wilt lighten my darkness.
Psalms 18 : 29 (LXXEN)
For by thee shall I be delivered from a troop; and by my God I will pass over a wall.
Psalms 18 : 30 (LXXEN)
As for my God, his way is perfect: the oracles of the Lord are tried in the fire; he is a protector of all them that hope in him.
Psalms 18 : 31 (LXXEN)
For who is God but the Lord? and who is a God except our God?
Psalms 18 : 32 (LXXEN)
It is God that girds me with strength, and has made my way blameless:
Psalms 18 : 33 (LXXEN)
who strengthens my feet as hart’s feet, and sets me upon high places.
Psalms 18 : 34 (LXXEN)
He instructs my hands for war: and thou hast made my arms as a brazen bow.
Psalms 18 : 35 (LXXEN)
And thou hast made me *Gr. the protection of secure in my salvation: and thy right hand has helped me, and thy correction has upheld me to the end; yea, thy correction itself shall instruct me.
Psalms 18 : 36 (LXXEN)
Thou has made room for my goings under me, and by footsteps did not fail.
Psalms 18 : 37 (LXXEN)
I will pursue mine enemies, and overtake them; and I will not turn back until they are consumed.
Psalms 18 : 38 (LXXEN)
I will dash them to pieces and they shall not be able to stand: they shall fall under my feet.
Psalms 18 : 39 (LXXEN)
For thou hast girded me with strength for war: thou hast beaten down under me all that rose up against me.
Psalms 18 : 40 (LXXEN)
And thou has made mine enemies turn their backs before me; and thou hast destroyed them that hated me.
Psalms 18 : 41 (LXXEN)
They cried, but there was no deliverer: even to the Lord, but he hearkened not to them.
Psalms 18 : 42 (LXXEN)
I will grind them as the mud of the streets: and I will beat them small as dust before the wind.
Psalms 18 : 43 (LXXEN)
Deliver me from the gain sayings of the people: thou shalt make me head of the Gentiles: a people whom I knew not served me,
Psalms 18 : 44 (LXXEN)
at the hearing of the ear they obeyed me: the strange children *Or, feigned obedience lied to me.
Psalms 18 : 45 (LXXEN)
The strange children waxed old, and fell away from their paths through lameness.
Psalms 18 : 46 (LXXEN)
The Lord lives; and blessed be my God; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.
Psalms 18 : 47 (LXXEN)
It is God that avenges me, and has subdued the nations under me;
Psalms 18 : 48 (LXXEN)
my deliverer from angry enemies: thou shalt set me on high *Or, out of the way of above them that rise up against me: thou shalt deliver me from the unrighteous man.
Psalms 18 : 49 (LXXEN)
Therefore will I confess to thee, O Lord, among the Gentiles, and sing to thy name.
Psalms 18 : 50 (LXXEN)
God magnifies the deliverances of his king; and deals mercifully with David his anointed, and his seed, for ever.
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