­PSA 18:1  I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.

 

­PSA 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.

 

­PSA 18:3  I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be

 saved from mine enemies.

 

­PSA 18:4  The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made

 me afraid.

 

­PSA 18:5  The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented

 me.

 

­PSA 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.

 

­PSA 18:7  Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills

 moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.

 

­PSA 18:8  There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth

 devoured: coals were kindled by it.

 

­PSA 18:9  He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his

 feet.

 

­PSA 18:10  And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the

 wings of the wind.

 

­PSA 18:11  He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were

 dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

 

­PSA 18:12  At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail

 stones and coals of fire.

 

­PSA 18:13  The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his

 voice; hail stones and coals of fire.

 

­PSA 18:14  Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out

 lightnings, and discomfited them.

 

­PSA 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.

 

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

 

­PSA 18:17  He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me:

 for they were too strong for me.

 

­PSA 18:18  They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my

 stay.

 

­PSA 18:19  He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me,

 because he delighted in me.

 

­PSA 18:20  The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the

 cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

 

­PSA 18:21  For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed

 from my God.

 

­PSA 18:22  For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his

 statutes from me.

 

­PSA 18:23  I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.

 

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

 righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.

 

­PSA 18:25  With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright

 man thou wilt shew thyself upright;

 

­PSA 18:26  With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou

 wilt shew thyself froward.

 

­PSA 18:27  For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high

 looks.

 

­PSA 18:28  For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my

 darkness.

 

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

 over a wall.

 

­PSA 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.

 

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

 

­PSA 18:32  It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.

 

­PSA 18:33  He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high

 places.

 

­PSA 18:34  He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by

 mine arms.

 

­PSA 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.

 

­PSA 18:36  Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.

 

­PSA 18:37  I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn

 again till they were consumed.

 

­PSA 18:38  I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen

 under my feet.

 

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

 subdued under me those that rose up against me.

 

­PSA 18:40  Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might

 destroy them that hate me.

 

­PSA 18:41  They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but

 he answered them not.

 

­PSA 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.

 

­PSA 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.

 

­PSA 18:44  As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall

 submit themselves unto me.

 

­PSA 18:45  The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close

 places.

 

­PSA 18:46  The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my

 salvation be exalted.

 

­PSA 18:47  It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.

 

­PSA 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.

 

­PSA 18:49  Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the

 heathen, and sing praises unto thy name.

 

­PSA 18:50  Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his

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