Psalms 18:11-30

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.

¹³Jehovah 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 Jehovah, 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.

¹⁸They came upon me in the day of my calamity; But Jehovah was my stay.

¹⁹He brought me forth also into a large place; He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

²⁰Jehovah hath rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

²¹For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, And have not wickedly departed from my God.

²²For all his ordinances were before me, And I put not away his statutes from me.

²³I was also perfect with him, And I kept myself from mine iniquity.

²⁴Therefore hath Jehovah recompensed me according to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.

²⁵With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful; With the perfect man thou wilt show thyself perfect;

²⁶With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; And with the perverse thou wilt show thyself froward.

²⁷For thou wilt save the afflicted people; But the haughty eyes thou wilt bring down.

²⁸For thou wilt light my lamp: Jehovah my God will lighten my darkness.

²⁹For by thee I run upon a troop; And by my God do I leap over a wall.

³⁰As for God, his way is perfect: The word of Jehovah is tried; He is a shield unto all them that take refuge in him.