Psalms 18

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Unto the end. A Psalm of David.	1 Unto the end, for David the servant of the Lord, who spoke to the Lord the words of this canticle, in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hands of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. [2 Kings 22.]
2 The heavens describe the glory of God, and the firmament announces the work of his hands.	2 I will love thee, O Lord, my strength:
3 Day proclaims the word to day, and night to night imparts knowledge.	3 The Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my deliverer. My God is my helper, and in him will I put my trust. My protector and the horn of my salvation, and my support.
4 There are no speeches or conversations, where their voices are not being heard.	4 Praising I will call upon the Lord: and I shall be saved from my enemies.
5 Their sound has gone forth through all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.	5 The sorrows of death surrounded me: and the torrents of iniquity troubled me.
6 He has placed his tabernacle in the sun, and he is like a bridegroom coming out of his bedroom. He has exulted like a giant running along the way;	6 The sorrows of hell encompassed me: and the snares of death prevented me.
7 his departure is from the summit of heaven. And his course reaches all the way to its summit. Neither is there anyone who can hide himself from his heat.	7 In my affliction I called upon the Lord, and I cried to my God: And he heard my voice from his holy temple: and my cry before him came into his ears.
8 The law of the Lord is immaculate, converting souls. The testimony of the Lord is faithful, providing wisdom to little ones.	8 The earth shook and trembled: the foundations of the mountains were troubled and were moved, because he was angry with them.
9 The justice of the Lord is right, rejoicing hearts. The precepts of the Lord are brilliant, enlightening the eyes.	9 There went up a smoke in his wrath: and a fire flamed from his face: coals were kindled by it.
10 The fear of the Lord is holy, enduring for all generations. The judgments of the Lord are true, justified in themselves:	10 He bowed the heavens, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
11 desirable beyond gold and many precious stones, and sweeter than honey and the honeycomb.	11 And he ascended upon the cherubim, and he flew; he flew upon the wings of the winds.
12 For, indeed, your servant keeps them, and in keeping them, there are many rewards.	12 And he made darkness his covert, his pavilion round about him: dark waters in the clouds of the air.
13 Who can understand transgression? From my hidden faults, cleanse me, O Lord,	13 At the brightness that was before him the clouds passed, hail and coals of fire.
14 and from those of others, spare your servant. If they will have no dominion over me, then I will be immaculate, and I will be cleansed from the greatest transgression.	14 And the Lord thundered from heaven, and the highest gave his voice: hail and coals of fire.
15 And the eloquence of my mouth will be so as to please, along with the meditation of my heart, in your sight, forever, O Lord, my helper and my redeemer.	15 And he sent forth his arrows, and he scattered them: he multiplied lightnings, and troubled them.
	16 Then the fountains of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were discovered: At thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the spirit of thy wrath.
	17 He sent from on high, and took me: and received me out of many waters.
	18 He delivered me from my strongest enemies, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.
	19 They prevented me in the day of my affliction: and the Lord became my protector.
	20 And he brought me forth into a large place: he saved me, because he was well pleased with me.
	21 And the Lord will reward me according to my justice; and will repay me according to the cleanness of my hands:
	22 Because I have kept the ways of the Lord; and have not done wickedly against my God.
	23 For till his judgments are in my sight: and his justices I have not put away from me.
	24 And I shall be spotless with him: and shall keep myself from my iniquity.
	25 And the Lord will reward me according to my justice; and according to the cleanness of my hands before his eyes.
	26 With the holy, thou wilt be holy; and with the innocent man thou wilt be innocent.
	27 And with the elect thou wilt be elect: and with the perverse thou wilt be perverted.
	28 For thou wilt save the humble people; but wilt bring down the eyes of the proud.
	29 For thou lightest my lamp, O Lord: O my God enlighten my darkness.
	30 For by thee I shall be delivered from temptation; and through my God I shall go over a wall.
	31 As for my God, his way is undefiled: the words of the Lord are fire tried: he is the protector of all that trust in him.
	32 For who is God but the Lord? or who is God but our God?
	33 God who hath girt me with strength; and made my way blameless.
	34 Who hath made my feet like the feet of harts: and who setteth me upon high places.
	35 Who teacheth my hands to war: and thou hast made my arms like a brazen bow.
	36 And thou hast given me the protection of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath held me up: And thy discipline hath corrected me unto the end: and thy discipline, the same shall teach me.
	37 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; and my feet are not weakened.
	38 I will pursue after my enemies, and overtake them: and I will not turn again till they are consumed.
	39 I will break them, and they shall not be able to stand: they shall fall under my feet.
	40 And thou hast girded me with strength unto battle; and hast subdued under me them that rose up against me.
	41 And thou hast made my enemies turn their back upon me, and hast destroyed them that hated me.
	42 They cried, but there was none to save them, to the Lord: but he heard them not.
	43 And I shall beat them as small as the dust before the wind; I shall bring them to nought, like the dirt in the streets.
	44 Thou wilt deliver me from the contradictions of the people: thou wilt make me head of the Gentiles.
	45 A people, which I knew not, hath served me: at the hearing of the ear they have obeyed me.
	46 The children that are strangers have lied to me, strange children have faded away, and have halted from their paths.
	47 The Lord liveth, and blessed be my God, and let the God of my salvation be exalted :
	48 O God, who avengest me, and subduest the people under me, my deliverer from my enemies.
	49 And thou wilt lift me up above them that rise up against me: from the unjust man thou wilt deliver me.
	50 Therefore will I give glory to thee, O Lord, among the nations, and I will sing a psalm to thy name.
	51 Giving great deliverance to his king, and shewing mercy to David his anointed : and to his seed for ever.