KJ3 Literal Translation
Psalms 18
David praises Jehovah for His manifold and marvelous blessings. Of the Messiah, Jesus. To the chief musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of Jehovah, who spoke the words of this song to Jehovah in the day that Jehovah delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul.
1Of the Messiah, Jesus. To the chief musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of Jehovah, who spoke the words of this song to Jehovah in the day that Jehovah delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. I love You, O Jehovah, my strength.
2Jehovah is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; He is my God, my Rock; I seek refuge in Him; He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
3I will call on Jehovah, who is to be praised, and I shall be saved from my enemies.
4The cords of death hemmed me in; yea, the floods of wicked men overwhelmed me;
5cords of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of death confronted me.
6In my distress I called on Jehovah and I cried to my God; He heard my voice out of His temple, and my cry went before Him, into His ears.
7Then the earth shook and quaked; and the foundations of the mountains quaked and were shaken, because it angered Him.
8A smoke went up out of His nostrils, and fire devoured out of His mouth; coals were kindled from it.
9He bowed the heavens also and came down, and darkness was under His feet;
10and He rode on a cherub, and He flew; yea, He soared on the wings of the wind;
11He made darkness His covering, His pavilion all around Him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
12Out of the brightness before Him, His dark clouds passed through, hail and coals of fire.
13Jehovah also thundered in the heavens; and the Highest gave forth His voice, hailstones and coals of fire.
14Yea, He sent out His arrows and scattered them; and He shot out lightnings and confused them.
15Then the stream beds of waters were seen, and the foundations of the earth were bared at Your rebuke, O Jehovah, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.
16He sent from on high, He took me; He drew me out of many waters;
17He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from ones hating me; for they were stronger than I.
18They went before me in my day of calamity, but Jehovah was my support.
19And He brought me out into a broad place; He delivered me because He delighted in me;
20Jehovah rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands He has repaid me.
21For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, and have not done wickedly from before my God.
22For all His judgments were before me, and I did not turn away His statutes from me.
23For I was upright with Him and kept myself from my iniquity.
24And Jehovah has returned to me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands before His eyes.
25With the godly ones You reveal Yourself as kind; with an upright man You reveal Yourself as upright;
26with the pure You reveal Yourself as pure; and with the perverting ones You appear perverse;
27for You will save an afflicted people; but You will bring low haughty eyes.
28For You will light my lamp; Jehovah my God will make my darkness light.
29For through You I can run through a troop; and through my God I have leaped over a wall.
30As for God, His way is perfect; the Word of Jehovah is purified; He is a shield to all who seek refuge in Him.
31For who is God besides Jehovah? Or who is a Rock except our God?
32It is God who girds me with strength and gives my way to be perfect;
33setting my feet like the deer, and making me stand on my high places;
34teaching my hands to war, so that a bow of bronze is bent by my arms.
35You have also given me the shield of Your salvation, and Your right hand holds me up, and Your condescension has made me great.
36You have made a wide place under me for my steps, so that my ankles have not slipped.
37I have pursued my enemies and have overtaken them; and I did not turn back until they were finished.
38I have shattered them, and they cannot rise up; they fell under my feet.
39And You have girded me with strength for the battle; You have bowed under me ones rising against me.
40And you have given me the neck of my enemies that I might cut off those hating me.
41They cried, but no one is there to save; to Jehovah, but He did not answer them.
42And I pulverized them like the dust before the wind; I emptied them out like the mire of the streets.
43You will deliver Me from the strivings of the people; You will appoint Me Head of the nations; a people I have not known shall serve Me.
44At the hearing of the ear they listen to Me; the sons of foreigners shall bow down to Me.
45The sons of aliens shall faint and come trembling out of their strongholds.
46Jehovah lives! And blessed be my Rock! And let the God of my salvation be exalted!
47He is the God who avenges me, and speaks to people under me.
48He delivers me from my enemies; yea, You lift me up from among those rising up against me. You have delivered me from the violent man.
49On account of this I will extol You, O Jehovah, among the nations, and I will sing praises to Your name,
50magnifying salvations to His king, and working mercy to His anointed, to David and to his Seed forever.
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