PSALMS 18:1-17

¹For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: and he said, I love thee, O LORD, my strength.

²The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strong rock, in him will I trust; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

³I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

⁴The cords of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

⁵The cords of Sheol were round about me: the snares of death came on me.

⁶In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry before him came into his ears.

⁷Then the earth shook and trembled, me foundations also of the mountains moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.

⁸There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

⁹He bowed the heavens also, and came down, and thick darkness was under his feet.

¹⁰And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly, yea, he flew swiftly upon the wings of the wind.

¹¹He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion round about him; darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

¹²At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire.

¹³The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice; hailstones and coals of fire.

¹⁴And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; yea, lightnings manifold, and discomfited them.

¹⁵Then 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.

¹⁶He sent from on high, he took me; he drew me out of many waters.

¹⁷He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me, for they were too mighty for me.