PS-18:1 To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David, the servant

of the LORD,

who spake unto 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: And

he said, I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.

PS-18:2 The 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.

PS-18:3 I will call upon the LORD, [who is worthy] to be praised:

 so shall I

be saved from mine enemies.

PS-18:4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of

ungodly men made

me afraid.

PS-18:5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of

death prevented

me.

PS-18:6 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my

God: he heard

my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, [even]

into his ears.

PS-18:7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also

of the hills

moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.

PS-18:8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out

of his mouth

devoured: coals were kindled by it.

PS-18:9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness

[was] under his

feet.

PS-18:10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly

upon the

wings of the wind.

PS-18:11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round

about him

[were] dark waters [and] thick clouds of the skies.

PS-18:12 At the brightness [that was] before him his thick

clouds passed, hail

[stones] and coals of fire.

PS-18:13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest

gave his

voice; hail [stones] and coals of fire.

PS-18:14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he

shot out

lightnings, and discomfited them.

PS-18:15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the

foundations of the

world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the

breath of thy

nostrils.

PS-18:16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many

waters.

PS-18:17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them

which hated me:

for they were too strong for me.

PS-18:18 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the

LORD was my

stay.

PS-18:19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he

delivered me, because

he delighted in me.

PS-18:20 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness;

according to the

cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

PS-18:21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not

wickedly departed

from my God.

PS-18:22 For all his judgments [were] before me, and I did not

put away his

statutes from me.

PS-18:23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from

mine iniquity.

PS-18:24 Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my

righteousness,

according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.

PS-18:25 With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful; with

an upright

man thou wilt show thyself upright;

PS-18:26 With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; and with the

froward thou

wilt show thyself froward.

PS-18:27 For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring

down high

looks.

PS-18:28 For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will

enlighten my

darkness.

PS-18:29 For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God

have I leaped

over a wall.

PS-18:30 [As for] God, his way [is] perfect: the word of the

LORD is tried: he

[is] a buckler to all those that trust in him.

PS-18:31 For who [is] God save the LORD? or who [is] a rock save

our God?

PS-18:32 [It is] God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh

my way perfect.

PS-18:33 He maketh my feet like hinds' [feet], and setteth me

upon my high

places.

PS-18:34 He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is

broken by mine

arms.

PS-18:35 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation:

and thy right

hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.

PS-18:36 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did

not slip.

PS-18:37 I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them:

neither did I turn

again till they were consumed.

PS-18:38 I have wounded them that they were not able to rise:

they are fallen

under my feet.

PS-18:39 For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle:

thou hast

subdued under me those that rose up against me.

PS-18:40 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that

I might

destroy them that hate me.

PS-18:41 They cried, but [there was] none to save [them: even]

unto the LORD,

but he answered them not.

PS-18:42 Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind:

I did cast

them out as the dirt in the streets.

PS-18:43 Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people;

 [and] thou

hast made me the head of the heathen: a people [whom] I have not

known shall

serve me.

PS-18:44 As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the

strangers shall

submit themselves unto me.

PS-18:45 The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of

their close

places.

PS-18:46 The LORD liveth; and blessed [be] my rock; and let the

God of my

salvation be exalted.

PS-18:47 [It is] God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people

under me.

PS-18:48 He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest

me up above

those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the

violent man.

PS-18:49 Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among

the heathen,

and sing praises unto thy name.

PS-18:50 Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and showeth

mercy to his

anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.

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