Psalms:18:2-31
rsv@Psalms:18:2 @ I love thee, O LORD, my strength.
rsv@Psalms:18:3 @ The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
rsv@Psalms:18:4 @ I call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies.
rsv@Psalms:18:5 @ The cords of death encompassed me, the torrents of perdition assailed me;
rsv@Psalms:18:6 @ the cords of Sheol entangled me, the snares of death confronted me.
rsv@Psalms:18:7 @ In my distress I called upon the LORD; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.
rsv@Psalms:18:8 @ Then the earth reeled and rocked; the foundations also of the mountains trembled and quaked, because he was angry.
rsv@Psalms:18:9 @ Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from his mouth; glowing coals flamed forth from him.
rsv@Psalms:18:10 @ He bowed the heavens, and came down; thick darkness was under his feet.
rsv@Psalms:18:11 @ He rode on a cherub, and flew; he came swiftly upon the wings of the wind.
rsv@Psalms:18:12 @ He made darkness his covering around him, his canopy thick clouds dark with water.
rsv@Psalms:18:13 @ Out of the brightness before him there broke through his clouds hailstones and coals of fire.
rsv@Psalms:18:14 @ The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice, hailstones and coals of fire.
rsv@Psalms:18:15 @ And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; he flashed forth lightnings, and routed them.
rsv@Psalms:18:16 @ Then the channels of the sea were seen, and the foundations of the world were laid bare, at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
rsv@Psalms:18:17 @ He reached from on high, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
rsv@Psalms:18:18 @ He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
rsv@Psalms:18:19 @ They came upon me in the day of my calamity; but the LORD was my stay.
rsv@Psalms:18:20 @ He brought me forth into a broad place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
rsv@Psalms:18:21 @ The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me.
rsv@Psalms:18:22 @ For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
rsv@Psalms:18:23 @ For all his ordinances were before me, and his statutes I did not put away from me.
rsv@Psalms:18:24 @ I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from guilt.
rsv@Psalms:18:25 @ Therefore the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.
rsv@Psalms:18:26 @ With the loyal thou dost show thyself loyal; with the blameless man thou dost show thyself blameless;
rsv@Psalms:18:27 @ with the pure thou dost show thyself pure; and with the crooked thou dost show thyself perverse.
rsv@Psalms:18:28 @ For thou dost deliver a humble people; but the haughty eyes thou dost bring down.
rsv@Psalms:18:29 @ Yea, thou dost light my lamp; the LORD my God lightens my darkness.
rsv@Psalms:18:30 @ Yea, by thee I can crush a troop; and by my God I can leap over a wall.
rsv@Psalms:18:31 @ This God--his way is perfect; the promise of the LORD proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.
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