Psalms 18

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 For the leader. Of David, the servant of the LORD, who sang to the LORD the words of this song after the LORD had rescued him from the clutches of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.	1 I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.
2 He said: I love you, LORD, my strength,	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.
3 LORD, my rock, my fortress, my deliverer, My God, my rock of refuge, my shield, my saving horn, my stronghold!	3 I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
4 Praised be the LORD, I exclaim! I have been delivered from my enemies.	4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
5 The breakers of death surged round about me; the menacing floods terrified me.	5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
6 The cords of Sheol tightened; the snares of death lay in wait for me.	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.
7 In my distress I called out: LORD! I cried out to my God. From his temple he heard my voice; my cry to him reached his ears.	7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
8 The earth rocked and shook; the foundations of the mountains trembled; they shook as his wrath flared up.	8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
9 Smoke rose in his nostrils, a devouring fire poured from his mouth; it kindled coals into flame.	9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
10 He parted the heavens and came down, a dark cloud under his feet.	10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
11 Mounted on a cherub he flew, borne along on the wings of the wind.	11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
12 He made darkness the cover about him; his canopy, heavy thunderheads.	12 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
13 Before him scudded his clouds, hail and lightning too.	13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
14 The LORD thundered from heaven; the Most High made his voice resound.	14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
15 He let fly his arrows and scattered them; shot his lightning bolts and dispersed them.	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.
16 Then the bed of the sea appeared; the world's foundations lay bare, At the roar of the LORD, at the storming breath of his nostrils.	16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
17 He reached down from on high and seized me; drew me out of the deep waters.	17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.
18 He rescued me from my mighty enemy, from foes too powerful for me.	18 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
19 They attacked me on a day of distress, but the LORD came to my support.	19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
20 He set me free in the open; he rescued me because he loves me.	20 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
21 The LORD acknowledged my righteousness, rewarded my clean hands.	21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
22 For I kept the ways of the LORD; I was not disloyal to my God.	22 For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.
23 His laws were all before me, his decrees I did not cast aside.	23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.
24 I was honest toward him; I was on guard against sin.	24 Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
25 So the LORD rewarded my righteousness, the cleanness of my hands in his sight.	25 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;
26 Toward the faithful you are faithful; to the honest you are honest;	26 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
27 Toward the sincere, sincere; but to the perverse you are devious.	27 For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
28 Humble people you save; haughty eyes you bring low.	28 For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
29 You, LORD, give light to my lamp; my God brightens the darkness about me.	29 For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.
30 With you I can rush an armed band, with my God to help I can leap a wall.	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.
31 God's way is unerring; the LORD'S promise is tried and true; he is a shield for all who trust in him.	31 For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God?
32 Truly, who is God except the LORD? Who but our God is the rock?	32 It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.
33 This God who girded me with might, kept my way unerring,	33 He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places.
34 Who made my feet swift as a deer's, set me safe on the heights,	34 He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
35 Who trained my hands for war, my arms to bend even a bow of bronze.	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.
36 You have given me your protecting shield; your right hand has upheld me; you stooped to make me great.	36 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
37 You gave me room to stride; my feet never stumbled.	37 I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.
38 I pursued my enemies and overtook them; I did not turn back till I destroyed them.	38 I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.
39 I struck them down; they could not rise; they fell dead at my feet.	39 For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.
40 You girded me with strength for war, subdued adversaries at my feet.	40 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.
41 My foes you put to flight before me; those who hated me I destroyed.	41 They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
42 They cried for help, but no one saved them; cried to the LORD but got no answer.	42 Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
43 I ground them fine as dust in the wind; like mud in the streets I trampled them down.	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.
44 You rescued me from the strife of peoples; you made me head over nations. A people I had not known became my slaves;	44 As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.
45 as soon as they heard of me they obeyed. Foreigners cringed before me;	45 The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.
46 their courage failed; they came trembling from their fortresses.	46 The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.
47 The LORD lives! Blessed be my rock! Exalted be God, my savior!	47 It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.
48 O God who granted me vindication, made peoples subject to me,	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.
49 and preserved me from my enemies, Truly you have exalted me above my adversaries, from the violent you have rescued me.	49 Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name.
50 Thus I will proclaim you, LORD, among the nations; I will sing the praises of your name.	50 Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.
51 You have given great victories to your king, and shown kindness to your anointed, to David and his posterity forever.