18Psalms 18

1I will love you, O LORD, my strength.Select Psalms 18:1

2The 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.Select Psalms 18:2

3I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from my enemies.Select Psalms 18:3

4The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.Select Psalms 18:4

5The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.Select Psalms 18:5

6In my distress I called on the LORD, and cried to my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.Select Psalms 18:6

7Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.Select Psalms 18:7

8There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.Select Psalms 18:8

9He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.Select Psalms 18:9

10And he rode on a cherub, and did fly: yes, he did fly on the wings of the wind.Select Psalms 18:10

11He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.Select Psalms 18:11

12At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.Select Psalms 18:12

13The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.Select Psalms 18:13

14Yes, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightning, and discomfited them.Select Psalms 18:14

15Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.Select Psalms 18:15

16He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.Select Psalms 18:16

17He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.Select Psalms 18:17

18They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.Select Psalms 18:18

19He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.Select Psalms 18:19

20The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.Select Psalms 18:20

21For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.Select Psalms 18:21

22For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.Select Psalms 18:22

23I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from my iniquity.Select Psalms 18:23

24Therefore has the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.Select Psalms 18:24

25With the merciful you will show yourself merciful; with an upright man you will show yourself upright;Select Psalms 18:25

26With the pure you will show yourself pure; and with the fraudulent you will show yourself devious.Select Psalms 18:26

27For you will save the afflicted people; but will bring down high looks.Select Psalms 18:27

28For you will light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.Select Psalms 18:28

29For by you I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.Select Psalms 18:29

30As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.Select Psalms 18:30

31For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God?Select Psalms 18:31

32It is God that girds me with strength, and makes my way perfect.Select Psalms 18:32

33He makes my feet like hinds’ feet, and sets me on my high places.Select Psalms 18:33

34He teaches my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by my arms.Select Psalms 18:34

35You have also given me the shield of your salvation: and your right hand has held me up, and your gentleness has made me great.Select Psalms 18:35

36You have enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.Select Psalms 18:36

37I have pursued my enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.Select Psalms 18:37

38I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.Select Psalms 18:38

39For you have girded me with strength to the battle: you have subdued under me those that rose up against me.Select Psalms 18:39

40You have also given me the necks of my enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.Select Psalms 18:40

41They cried, but there was none to save them: even to the LORD, but he answered them not.Select Psalms 18:41

42Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.Select Psalms 18:42

43You have delivered me from the strivings of the people; and you have made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.Select Psalms 18:43

44As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves to me.Select Psalms 18:44

45The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.Select Psalms 18:45

46The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.Select Psalms 18:46

47It is God that avenges me, and subdues the people under me.Select Psalms 18:47

48He delivers me from my enemies: yes, you lift me up above those that rise up against me: you have delivered me from the violent man.Select Psalms 18:48

49Therefore will I give thanks to you, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises to your name.Select Psalms 18:49

50Great deliverance gives he to his king; and shows mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for ever more.Select Psalms 18:50