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