Psalm 18:1WEB
I love you, Yahweh, my strength.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
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PsalmsWEB
For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of Yahweh, who spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said,
Psalm 18:1WEB
I love you, Yahweh, my strength.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Psalm 18:2WEB
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.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Psalm 18:3WEB
I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised; and I am saved from my enemies.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Psalm 18:4WEB
The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
Psalm 18:5WEB
The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me.
Psalm 18:6WEB
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.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Psalm 18:7WEB
Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.
Psalm 18:8WEB
Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.
Psalm 18:9WEB
He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.
Psalm 18:10WEB
He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.
Psalm 18:11WEB
He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
Psalm 18:12WEB
At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire.
Psalm 18:13WEB
Yahweh also thundered in the sky. The Most High uttered his voice: hailstones and coals of fire.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Psalm 18:14WEB
He sent out his arrows, and scattered them. He routed them with great lightning bolts.
Psalm 18:15WEB
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.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Psalm 18:16WEB
He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.
Psalm 18:17WEB
He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
Psalm 18:18WEB
They came on me in the day of my calamity, but Yahweh was my support.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Psalm 18:19WEB
He brought me out also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
Psalm 18:20WEB
Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands, he has recompensed me.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Psalm 18:21WEB
For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Psalm 18:22WEB
For all his ordinances were before me. I didn’t put away his statutes from me.
Psalm 18:23WEB
I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.
Psalm 18:24WEB
Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Psalm 18:25WEB
With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.
Psalm 18:26WEB
With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
Psalm 18:27WEB
For you will save the afflicted people, but the arrogant eyes you will bring down.
Psalm 18:28WEB
For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Psalm 18:29WEB
For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall.
Psalm 18:30WEB
As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Psalm 18:31WEB
For who is God, except Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God,
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Psalm 18:32WEB
the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?
Psalm 18:33WEB
He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and sets me on my high places.
Psalm 18:34WEB
He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.
Psalm 18:35WEB
You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.
Psalm 18:36WEB
You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.
Psalm 18:37WEB
I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. I won’t turn away until they are consumed.
Psalm 18:38WEB
I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet.
Psalm 18:39WEB
For you have armed me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
Psalm 18:40WEB
You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.
Psalm 18:41WEB
They cried, but there was no one to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Psalm 18:42WEB
Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets.
Psalm 18:43WEB
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.
Psalm 18:44WEB
As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.
Psalm 18:45WEB
The foreigners shall fade away, and shall come trembling out of their strongholds.
Psalm 18:46WEB
Yahweh lives! Blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my salvation,
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Psalm 18:47WEB
even the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues peoples under me.
Psalm 18:48WEB
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.
Psalm 18:49WEB
Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations, and will sing praises to your name.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Psalm 18:50WEB
He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his offspring, forever more.
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.