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| 18:2: Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower. |
| 18:3: I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised; And I am saved from my enemies. |
| 18:4: The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid. |
| 18:5: The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came on me. |
| 18:6: In my distress I called on Yahweh, And cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple, My cry before him came into his ears. |
| 18:7: Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken, Because he was angry. |
| 18:8: Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it. |
| 18:9: He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet. |
| 18:10: He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind. |
| 18:11: He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion around him, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies. |
| 18:12: At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, Hailstones and coals of fire. |
| 18:13: Yahweh also thundered in the sky, The Most High uttered his voice: Hailstones and coals of fire. |
| 18:14: He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, great lightning bolts, and routed them. |
| 18:15: Then the channels of waters appeared, The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh, At the blast of the breath of your nostrils. |
| 18:16: He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters. |
| 18:17: He delivered me from my strong enemy, From those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me. |
| 18:18: They came on me in the day of my calamity, But Yahweh was my support. |
| 18:19: He brought me forth also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me. |
| 18:20: Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me. |
| 18:21: For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, And have not wickedly departed from my God. |
| 18:22: For all his ordinances were before me. I didn't put away his statutes from me. |
| 18:23: I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity. |
| 18:24: Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight. |
| 18:25: With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect. |
| 18:26: With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd. |
| 18:27: For you will save the afflicted people, But the haughty eyes you will bring down. |
| 18:28: For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness. |
| 18:29: For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall. |
| 18:30: As for God, his way is perfect. The word of Yahweh is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him. |
| 18:31: For who is God, except Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God, |
| 18:32: The God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect? |
| 18:33: He makes my feet like deer's feet, And sets me on my high places. |
| 18:34: He teaches my hands to war; So that my arms bend a bow of bronze. |
| 18:35: You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great. |
| 18:36: You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped. |
| 18:37: I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. Neither will I turn again until they are consumed. |
| 18:38: I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet. |
| 18:39: For you have girded me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me. |
| 18:40: You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, That I might cut off those who hate me. |
| 18:41: They cried, but there was none to save; Even to Yahweh, but he didn't answer them. |
| 18:42: Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets. |
| 18:43: You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me. |
| 18:44: As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me. |
| 18:45: The foreigners shall fade away, And shall come trembling out of their close places. |
| 18:46: Yahweh lives; and blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my salvation, |
| 18:47: Even the God who executes vengeance for me, And subdues peoples under me. |
| 18:48: He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man. |
| 18:49: Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations, And will sing praises to your name. |
| 18:50: He gives great deliverance to his king, And shows loving kindness to his anointed, To David and to his seed, forevermore. |
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