Psalms 18
Authorized King James Version (1769) with AI Commentary
1I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.🔗🔍
2The 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.🔗🔍
3I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.🔗🔍
4The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.🔗🔍
5The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.🔗🔍
6In 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.🔗🔍
7Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.🔗🔍
8There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.🔗🔍
9He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.🔗🔍
10And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.🔗🔍
11He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.🔗🔍
12At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.🔗🔍
13The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.🔗🔍
14Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.🔗🔍
15Then 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.🔗🔍
16He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.🔗🔍
17He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.🔗🔍
18They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.🔗🔍
19He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.🔗🔍
20The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.🔗🔍
21For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.🔗🔍
22For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.🔗🔍
23I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.🔗🔍
24Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.🔗🔍
25With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;🔗🔍
26With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.🔗🔍
27For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.🔗🔍
28For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.🔗🔍
29For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.🔗🔍
30As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.🔗🔍
31For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God?🔗🔍
32It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.🔗🔍
33He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places.🔗🔍
34He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.🔗🔍
35Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.🔗🔍
36Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.🔗🔍
37I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.🔗🔍
38I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.🔗🔍
39For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.🔗🔍
40Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.🔗🔍
41They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.🔗🔍
42Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.🔗🔍
43Thou 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.🔗🔍
44As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.🔗🔍
45The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.🔗🔍
46The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.🔗🔍
47It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.🔗🔍
48He 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.🔗🔍
49Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name.🔗🔍
50Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.🔗🔍
2The 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.🔗🔍
3I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.🔗🔍
4The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.🔗🔍
5The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.🔗🔍
6In 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.🔗🔍
7Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.🔗🔍
8There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.🔗🔍
9He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.🔗🔍
10And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.🔗🔍
11He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.🔗🔍
12At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.🔗🔍
13The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.🔗🔍
14Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.🔗🔍
15Then 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.🔗🔍
16He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.🔗🔍
17He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.🔗🔍
18They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.🔗🔍
19He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.🔗🔍
20The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.🔗🔍
21For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.🔗🔍
22For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.🔗🔍
23I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.🔗🔍
24Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.🔗🔍
25With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;🔗🔍
26With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.🔗🔍
27For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.🔗🔍
28For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.🔗🔍
29For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.🔗🔍
30As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.🔗🔍
31For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God?🔗🔍
32It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.🔗🔍
33He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places.🔗🔍
34He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.🔗🔍
35Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.🔗🔍
36Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.🔗🔍
37I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.🔗🔍
38I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.🔗🔍
39For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.🔗🔍
40Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.🔗🔍
41They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.🔗🔍
42Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.🔗🔍
43Thou 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.🔗🔍
44As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.🔗🔍
45The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.🔗🔍
46The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.🔗🔍
47It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.🔗🔍
48He 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.🔗🔍
49Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name.🔗🔍
50Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.🔗🔍
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