Psalms:18:1: I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.
Psalms: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.
Psalms:18:3: I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
Psalms:18:4: The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
Psalms:18:5: The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
Psalms: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.
Psalms:18:7: Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
Psalms:18:8: There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
Psalms:18:9: He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
Psalms:18:10: And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
Psalms:18:11: He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Psalms:18:12: At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
Psalms:18:13: The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
Psalms:18:14: Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
Psalms: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.
Psalms:18:16: He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
Psalms:18:17: He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.
Psalms:18:18: They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
Psalms:18:19: He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
Psalms:18:20: The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
Psalms:18:21: For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
Psalms:18:22: For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.
Psalms:18:23: I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.
Psalms:18:24: Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
Psalms:18:25: With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;
