#### Psalms 18

Verses : {1} {2} {3} {4} {5} {6} {7} {8} {9} {10} {11} {12} {13} {14} {15} {16} {17} {18} {19} {20} {21} {22} {23} {24} {25} {26} {27} {28} {29} {30} {31} {32} {33} {34} {35} {36} {37} {38} {39} {40} {41} {42} {43} {44} {45} {46} {47} {48} {49} {50}

^ 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 shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;
^ Ps 18.26: With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew 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 sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.