PSALM 18

Royal Thanksgiving for Victory

Psalm 18:1  I love you, O LORD, my strength.

Psalm 18:2 The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

Psalm 18:3 I call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies.

Psalm 18:4 The cords of death encompassed me, the torrents of perdition assailed me;

Psalm 18:5 the cords of Sheol entangled me, the snares of death confronted me.

Psalm 18:6 In my distress I called upon the LORD; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.

Psalm 18:7 Then the earth reeled and rocked; the foundations also of the mountains trembled and quaked, because he was angry.

Psalm 18:8 Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from his mouth; glowing coals flamed forth from him.

Psalm 18:9 He bowed the heavens, and came down; thick darkness was under his feet.

Psalm 18:10 He rode on a cherub, and flew; he came swiftly upon the wings of the wind.

Psalm 18:11He made darkness his covering around him, his canopy thick clouds dark with water.

Psalm 18:12 Out of the brightness before him there broke through his clouds hailstones and coals of fire.

Psalm 18:13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice, hailstones and coals of fire.

Psalm 18:14 And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; he flashed forth lightnings, and routed them.

Psalm 18:15 Then the channels of the sea were seen, and the foundations of the world were laid bare, at your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.

Psalm 18:16 He reached from on high, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.

Psalm 18:17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.

Psalm 18:18 They came upon me in the day of my calamity; but the LORD was my stay.

Psalm 18:19 He brought me forth into a broad place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

Psalm 18:20 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me.

Psalm 18:21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

Psalm 18:22 For all his ordinances were before me, and his statutes I did not put away from me.

Psalm 18:23 I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from guilt.

Psalm 18:24 Therefore the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.

Psalm 18:25 With the loyal you show yourself loyal; with the blameless man you show yourself blameless;

Psalm 18:26 with the pure you show yourself pure; and with the crooked you show yourself perverse.

Psalm 18:27 For you deliver a humble people; but the haughty eyes you bring down

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Psalm 18:28 Yes, you light my lamp; the LORD my God lightens my darkness.

Psalm 18:29 Yes, by you I can crush a troop; and by my God I can leap over a wall.

Psalm 18:30 This God his way is perfect; the promise of the LORD proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.

Psalm 18:31 For who is God, but the LORD? And who is a rock, except our God?

Psalm 18:32 the God who girded me with strength, and made my way safe.

Psalm 18:33 He made my feet like deer’s feet, and set me secure on the heights.

Psalm 18:34 He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

Psalm 18:35 You have given me the shield of your salvation, and your right hand supported me, and your help i made me great.

Psalm 18:36 You gave a wide place for my steps under me, and my feet did not slip.

Psalm 18:37 I pursued my enemies and overtook them; and did not turn back till they were consumed.

Psalm 18:38 I thrust them through, so that they were not able to rise; they fell under my feet.

Psalm 18:39 For you girded me with strength for the battle; you made my assailants sink under me.

Psalm 18:40 You made my enemies turn their backs to me, and those who hated me I destroyed.

Psalm 18:41 They cried for help, but there was none to save, they cried to the LORD, but he did not answer them.

Psalm 18:42 I beat them fine as dust before the wind; I cast them out like the mire of the streets.

Psalm 18:43 You delivered me from strife with the peoples;  you made me the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.

Psalm 18:44 As soon as they heard of me they obeyed me; foreigners came cringing to me.

Psalm 18:45 Foreigners lost heart, and came trembling out of their strongholds.

Psalm 18:46 The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock, and exalted be the God of my salvation,

Psalm 18:47 the God who gave me vengeance and subdued peoples under me;

Psalm 18:48 who delivered me from my enemies; yes, you exalted me above my adversaries; you delivered me from men of violence.

Psalm 18:49 For this I will extol you, O LORD, among the nations, and sing praises to your name.

Psalm 18:50 Great triumphs he gives to his king, and shows mercy to his anointed, to David and his descendants for ever.