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Psalms Chapter 18The Darby Bible2: Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I will trust; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower. 3: I will call upon Jehovah, who is to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies. 4: The bands of death encompassed me, and torrents of Belial made me afraid. 5: The bands of Sheol surrounded me, the cords of death encountered me. 6: In my distress I called upon Jehovah, and I cried out to my God; he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, into his ears. 7: Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains trembled and shook, because he was wroth. 8: There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals burned forth from it. 9: And he bowed the heavens, and came down; and darkness was under his feet. 10: And he rode upon a cherub and did fly; yea, he flew fast upon the wings of the wind. 11: He made darkness his secret place, his tent round about him: darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies. 12: From the brightness before him his thick clouds passed forth: hail and coals of fire. 13: And Jehovah thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice: hail and coals of fire. 14: And he sent his arrows, and scattered [mine enemies]; and he shot forth lightnings, and discomfited them. 15: And the beds of the waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were uncovered at thy rebuke, Jehovah, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils. 16: He reached forth from above, he took me, he drew me out of great waters: 17: He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me; for they were mightier than I. 18: They encountered me in the day of my calamity, but Jehovah was my stay. 19: And he brought me forth into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me. 20: Jehovah hath rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. 21: For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, and have not wickedly departed from my God. 22: For all his ordinances were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me; 23: And I was upright with him, and kept myself from mine iniquity. 24: And Jehovah hath recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight. 25: With the gracious thou dost shew thyself gracious; with the upright man thou dost shew thyself upright; 26: With the pure thou dost shew thyself pure; and with the perverse thou dost shew thyself contrary. 27: For it is thou that savest the afflicted people; but the haughty eyes wilt thou bring down. 28: For it is thou that makest my lamp to shine: Jehovah my God enlighteneth my darkness. 29: For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall. 30: As for God, his way is perfect; the word of Jehovah is tried: he is a shield to all that trust in him. 31: For who is God save Jehovah? and who is a rock if not our God? 32: The God who girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect, 33: Who maketh my feet like hinds' [feet], and setteth me upon my high places; 34: Who teacheth my hands to war, and mine arms bend a bow of brass; 35: And thou didst give me the shield of thy salvation, and thy right hand held me up; and thy condescending gentleness hath made me great. 36: Thou didst enlarge my steps under me, and mine ankles have not wavered. 37: I pursued mine enemies, and overtook them; and I turned not again till they were consumed. 38: I crushed them, and they were not able to rise: they fell under my feet. 39: And thou girdedst me with strength to battle; thou didst subdue under me those that rose up against me. 40: And mine enemies didst thou make to turn their backs unto me, and those that hated me I destroyed. 41: They cried, and there was none to save; -- unto Jehovah, and he answered them not. 42: And I did beat them small as dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the mire of the streets. 43: Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; thou hast made me the head of the nations: a people I knew not doth serve me. 44: At the hearing of the ear, they obey me: strangers come cringing unto me. 45: Strangers have faded away, and they come trembling forth from their close places. 46: Jehovah liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of my salvation, 47: The God who hath avenged me, and hath subjected the peoples to me; 48: Who hath delivered me from mine enemies: yea, thou hast lifted me up above them that rose up against me; from the man of violence hast thou delivered me. 49: Therefore will I give thanks to thee, Jehovah, among the nations, and will sing psalms to thy name. 50: [It is he] who giveth great deliverances to his king, and sheweth loving-kindness to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.
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