| 18.1 |
I love you, Yahweh, my strength. |
| 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. |
| 18.3 |
I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised; and I am saved from my enemies. |
| 18.4 |
The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid. |
| 18.5 |
The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me. |
| 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. |
| 18.7 |
Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken, because he was angry. |
| 18.8 |
Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it. |
| 18.9 |
He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet. |
| 18.10 |
He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind. |
| 18.11 |
He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies. |
| 18.12 |
At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire. |
| 18.13 |
Yahweh also thundered in the sky. The Most High uttered his voice: hailstones and coals of fire. |
| 18.14 |
He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, great lightning bolts, and routed them. |
| 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. |
| 18.16 |
He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters. |
| 18.17 |
He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me. |
| 18.18 |
They came on me in the day of my calamity, but Yahweh was my support. |
| 18.19 |
He brought me out also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me. |
| 18.20 |
Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me. |
| 18.21 |
For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly departed from my God. |
| 18.22 |
For all his ordinances were before me. I didn’t put away his statutes from me. |
| 18.23 |
I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity. |
| 18.24 |
Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight. |
| 18.25 |
With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect. |
| 18.26 |
With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd. |
| 18.27 |
For you will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes you will bring down. |
| 18.28 |
For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness. |
| 18.29 |
For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall. |
| 18.30 |
As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him. |
| 18.31 |
For who is God, except Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God, |
| 18.32 |
the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect? |
| 18.33 |
He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and sets me on my high places. |
| 18.34 |
He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze. |
| 18.35 |
You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great. |
| 18.36 |
You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped. |
| 18.37 |
I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. Neither will I turn again until they are consumed. |
| 18.38 |
I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet. |
| 18.39 |
For you have armed me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me. |
| 18.40 |
You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me. |
| 18.41 |
They cried, but there was no one to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them. |
| 18.42 |
Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets. |
| 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. |
| 18.44 |
As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me. |
| 18.45 |
The foreigners shall fade away, and shall come trembling out of their close places. |
| 18.46 |
Yahweh lives; and blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my salvation, |
| 18.47 |
even the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues peoples under me. |
| 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. |
| 18.49 |
Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations, and will sing praises to your name. |
| 18.50 |
He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his seed, forever more. |
