Psalms:18

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* I love thee , O LORD , my strength . * LORD is my rock , and my fortress , and my deliverer , my God , my rock , in whom I will take refuge , my shield , and the horn of my salvation , my high tower . * I will call upon LORD , who is worthy to be praised . So I shall be saved from my enemies . * The cords of death encompassed me , and the floods of lawlessness made me afraid . * The cords of Sheol were round about me . The snares of death came upon me . * In my distress I called upon LORD , and cried to my God . He heard my voice out of his temple , and my cry before him came into his ears . * Then the earth shook and trembled . The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken because he was angry . * There went up a smoke out of his nostrils , and fire out of his mouth devoured . Coals were kindled by it . * He also bowed the heavens , and came down , and thick darkness was under his feet . * And he rode upon a cherub , and flew . Yea , he soared upon the wings of the wind . * He made darkness his hiding-place , his pavilion round about him , darkness of waters , thick clouds of the skies . * At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed , hailstones and coals of fire . * LORD also thundered in the heavens , and the Most High uttered his voice , hailstones and coals of fire . * And he sent out his arrows , and scattered them , Yea , lightnings manifold , and discomfited them . * Then the channels of waters appeared , and the foundations of the world were laid bare at thy rebuke , O LORD , at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils . * He sent from on high , he took me , he drew me out of many waters . * He delivered me from my strong enemy , and from those who hated me , for they were too mighty for me . * They came upon me in the day of my calamity , but LORD was my stay . * He also brought me forth into a large place . He delivered me because he delighted in me . * LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness . According to the cleanness of my hands he has recompensed me . * For I have kept the ways of LORD , and have not wickedly departed from my God . * For all his ordinances were before me , and I put not away his statutes from me . * I was also perfect with him , and I kept myself from my iniquity . * Therefore LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness , according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight . * With the merciful thou will show thyself merciful . With the perfect man thou will show thyself perfect . * With the pure thou will show thyself pure . And with the perverse thou will show thyself contrary . * For thou will save the afflicted people , but the haughty eyes thou will bring down . * For thou will light my lamp . LORD my God will lighten my darkness . * For by thee I run upon a troop , and by my God I leap over a wall . * As for God , his way is perfect . The word of LORD is tried . He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him . * For who is God , except LORD ? And who is a rock , besides our God , * the God who girds me with strength , and makes my way perfect ? * He makes my feet like hinds ' [feet ], and sets me upon my high places . * He teaches my hands to war , so that my arms bend a bow of brass . * Thou have also given me the shield of thy salvation , and thy right hand has held me up , and thy gentleness has made me great . * Thou have enlarged my steps under me , and my feet have not slipped . * I will pursue my enemies , and overtake them . Neither will I turn again till they are consumed . * I will smite them through , so that they shall not be able to rise . They shall fall under my feet . * For thou have girded me with strength to the battle . Thou have subdued under me those who rose up against me . * Thou have also made my enemies turn their backs to me , that I might cut off those who hate me . * They cried , but there was none to save , even to LORD , but he answered them not . * Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind . I cast them out as the mire of the streets . * Thou have delivered me from the strivings of the people . Thou have made me the head of the nations . A people whom I have not known shall serve me . * As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me . The foreigners shall submit themselves to me . * The foreigners shall fade away , and shall come trembling out of their close places . * LORD lives , and blessed be my rock , and exalted be the God of my salvation , * even the God who executes vengeance for me , and subdues peoples under me . * He rescues me from my enemies . Yea , thou lift me up above those who rise up against me . Thou deliver me from the violent man . * Therefore I will give thanks to thee , O LORD , among the Gentiles , and will sing praises to thy name . * He gives great deliverance to his king , and shows loving kindness to his anointed , to David and to his seed , for evermore .

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