Psalms Chapter 18 World English Bible

Psalms 18:1

> I love you, Yahweh, my strength.

Psalms 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.

Psalms 18:3

I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised; And I am saved from my enemies.

Psalms 18:4

The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

Psalms 18:5

The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came on me.

Psalms 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.

Psalms 18:7

Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken, Because he was angry.

Psalms 18:8

Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.

Psalms 18:9

He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.

Psalms 18:10

He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.

Psalms 18:11

He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion around him, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

Psalms 18:12

At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, Hailstones and coals of fire.

Psalms 18:13

Yahweh also thundered in the sky, The Most High uttered his voice: Hailstones and coals of fire.

Psalms 18:14

He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, great lightning bolts, and routed them.

Psalms 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.

Psalms 18:16

He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.

Psalms 18:17

He delivered me from my strong enemy, From those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.

Psalms 18:18

They came on me in the day of my calamity, But Yahweh was my support.

Psalms 18:19

He brought me forth also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

Psalms 18:20

Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.

Psalms 18:21

For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, And have not wickedly departed from my God.

Psalms 18:22

For all his ordinances were before me. I didn't put away his statutes from me.

Psalms 18:23

I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.

Psalms 18:24

Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.

Psalms 18:25

With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.

Psalms 18:26

With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.

Psalms 18:27

For you will save the afflicted people, But the haughty eyes you will bring down.

Psalms 18:28

For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.

Psalms 18:29

For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall.

Psalms 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.

Psalms 18:31

For who is God, except Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God,

Psalms 18:32

The God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?

Psalms 18:33

He makes my feet like deer's feet, And sets me on my high places.

Psalms 18:34

He teaches my hands to war; So that my arms bend a bow of bronze.

Psalms 18:35

You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.

Psalms 18:36

You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.

Psalms 18:37

I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. Neither will I turn again until they are consumed.

Psalms 18:38

I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet.

Psalms 18:39

For you have girded me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

Psalms 18:40

You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, That I might cut off those who hate me.

Psalms 18:41

They cried, but there was none to save; Even to Yahweh, but he didn't answer them.

Psalms 18:42

Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets.

Psalms 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.

Psalms 18:44

As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.

Psalms 18:45

The foreigners shall fade away, And shall come trembling out of their close places.

Psalms 18:46

Yahweh lives; and blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my salvation,

Psalms 18:47

Even the God who executes vengeance for me, And subdues peoples under me.

Psalms 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.

Psalms 18:49

Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations, And will sing praises to your name.

Psalms 18:50

He gives great deliverance to his king, And shows loving kindness to his anointed, To David and to his seed, forevermore.