Psalms 18:1-15

¹“To the chief musician, by the servant of the Lord, by David, who spoke unto the Lord the words of this song on the day that the Lord had delivered him out of the power of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul; (18:2) And he said,” I ever love thee, O Lord, my strength.

²(18:3) The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I trust; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

³(18:4) Praised, I cried, be the Lord, and from my enemies was I saved.

⁴(18:5) The bonds of death encompassed me, and the floods of destruction made me afraid.

⁵(18:6) The bonds of hell encircled me: the snares of death seized on me.

⁶(18:7) When in my distress I called upon the Lord, and unto my God I cried: he heard from his temple my voice, and my complaint came before him, even into his ears.

⁷(18:8) Then shook and trembled the earth; and the foundations of the mountains were moved; and they were shaken, because he was wroth.

⁸(18:9) Smoke went up in his anger and consuming fire out of his mouth: coals flamed forth from him.

⁹(18:10) And he bent the heavens, and came down: and thick darkness was under his feet:

¹⁰(18:11) And he rode upon a cherub, and flew along, and he flitted by upon the wings of the wind.

¹¹(18:12) He made darkness his hiding-place, round about him as his pavilion, dark waters, thick clouds of the skies.

¹²(18:13) From the brightness before him his thick clouds passed away, with hail-stones and coals of fire.

¹³(18:14) And the Lord thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered forth his voice, with hail-stones and coals of fire.

¹⁴(18:15) And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot forth lightnings, and discomfited them.

¹⁵(18:16) And then were seen the channels of the waters, and there were laid open the foundations of the world, through thy rebuke, O Lord, through the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.