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Chapter 18
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I will love thee, O LORD, my strength. |
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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. |
3
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I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised:
so shall I be saved from mine enemies. |
4
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The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of
ungodly men made me afraid. |
5
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The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares
of death prevented me. |
6
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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. |
7
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Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations
also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was
wroth. |
8
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There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire
out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. |
9
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He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness
was under his feet. |
10
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And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did
fly upon the wings of the wind. |
11
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He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round
about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies. |
12
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At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds
passed, hail stones and coals of fire. |
13
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The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest
gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire. |
14
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Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and
he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them. |
15
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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. |
16
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He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many
waters. |
17
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He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them
which hated me: for they were too strong for me. |
18
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They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the
LORD was my stay. |
19
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He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered
me, because he delighted in me. |
20
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The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness;
according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed
me. |
21
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For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not
wickedly departed from my God. |
22
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For all his judgments were before me, and I did not
put away his statutes from me. |
23
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I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from
mine iniquity. |
24
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Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to
my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands
in his eyesight. |
25
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With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful;
with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright; |
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With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with
the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward. |
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For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring
down high looks. |
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For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will
enlighten my darkness. |
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For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God
have I leaped over a wall. |
30
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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. |
31
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For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save
our God? |
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It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh
my way perfect. |
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He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me
upon my high places. |
34
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He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel
is broken by mine arms. |
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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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Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet
did not slip. |
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I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither
did I turn again till they were consumed. |
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I have wounded them that they were not able to rise:
they are fallen under my feet. |
39
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For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle:
thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against
me. |
40
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Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies;
that I might destroy them that hate me. |
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They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto
the LORD, but he answered them not. |
42
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Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind:
I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets. |
43
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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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As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the
strangers shall submit themselves unto me. |
45
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The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of
their close places. |
46
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The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the
God of my salvation be exalted. |
47
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It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people
under me. |
48
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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. |
49
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Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among
the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name. |
50
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Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth
mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for
evermore. |
