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By David the servant of the LORD, who spoke to 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. He said,] I love you, LORD, my strength.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>The LORD 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.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The waves of death surrounded me, and the currents of ungodliness overwhelmed me.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried out to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry before him came into his ears.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>He made darkness his hiding place, his canopy around him thick clouds dark with water.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>From the brightness before him his thick clouds passed on, with hailstones and coals of fire.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The LORD also thundered in the sky. The Most High uttered his voice.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And he sent out arrows and scattered them, and he shot lightning bolts and routed them.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And the depths of the sea appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, LORD, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>They came on me in the day of my calamity, but the LORD was my support.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>He brought me forth also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>For all his ordinances were before me. I did not put away his statutes from me.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Therefore the LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>With the faithful you show yourself faithful. With the innocent you show yourself innocent.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>With the pure you show yourself pure. And with the crooked you show yourself tortuous.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>For you will save a humble people, but the eyes of the proud you will bring low.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>For you light my lamp. The LORD my God lights up my darkness.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>As for God, his way is perfect. The word of the LORD is pure. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>For who is God, except the LORD? Who is a rock, besides our God,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>the God who girds me with strength, and makes my way blameless?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>He makes my feet like deer's feet, and sets me on my high places.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>You have also given me the shield of your salvation, and your right hand holds me up, and your help has made me great.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>I pursued my enemies and overtook them, and I did not turn back until they were destroyed.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>I struck them through, so that they did not rise. They fell beneath my feet.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>For you have equipped me with strength for the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>They cried, but there was none to save; even to the LORD, but he did not answer them.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>Then I ground them as fine as the dust on the surface of a path. Like the mud in the streets, I trampled them.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>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;<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>as soon as they hear of me they obey me. Foreigners come cringing to me;<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>they are not bound in chains.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my salvation,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span>even the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues peoples under me.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span>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.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-49.htm"><b>49</b></a></span>Therefore I will praise you, LORD, among the nations, and will sing praises to your name.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/psalms/18-50.htm"><b>50</b></a></span>He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his descendants, until forever.<p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><a href="//nheb.net/">New Heart English Bible</a><br />Edited by Wayne A. 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