Psalms 18:16-42

¹⁶He hath sent downe from aboue and taken mee: hee hath drawen mee out of many waters.

¹⁷He hath deliuered mee from my strong enemie, and from them which hate me: for they were too strong for me.

¹⁸They preuented me in the day of my calamitie: but the Lord was my stay.

¹⁹Hee brought mee foorth also into a large place: hee deliuered mee because hee fauoured me.

²⁰The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousnes: according to the purenes of mine hands he recompensed me:

²¹Because I kept the wayes of the Lord, and did not wickedly against my God.

²²For all his Lawes were before mee, and I did not cast away his commandements from mee.

²³I was vpright also with him, and haue kept me from my wickednes.

²⁴Therefore the Lord rewarded me according to my righteousnesse, and according to the purenes of mine hands in his sight.

²⁵With the godly thou wilt shewe thy selfe godly: with the vpright man thou wilt shew thy selfe vpright.

²⁶With the pure thou wilt shewe thy selfe pure, and with the froward thou wilt shewe thy selfe froward.

²⁷Thus thou wilt saue the poore people, and wilt cast downe the proude lookes.

²⁸Surely thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God wil lighten my darkenes.

²⁹For by thee I haue broken through an hoste, and by my God I haue leaped ouer a wall.

³⁰The way of God is vncorrupt: the worde of the Lord is tried in the fire: he is a shield to all that trust in him.

³¹For who is God besides the Lord? and who is mightie saue our God?

³²God girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way vpright.

³³He maketh my feete like hindes feete, and setteth me vpon mine high places.

³⁴He teacheth mine hands to fight: so that a bowe of brasse is broken with mine armes.

³⁵Thou hast also giuen me the shield of thy saluation, and thy right hand hath stayed me, and thy louing kindenes hath caused me to increase.

³⁶Thou hast enlarged my steps vnder mee, and mine heeles haue not slid.

³⁷I haue pursued mine enemies, and taken them, and haue not turned againe till I had consumed them.

³⁸I haue wounded them, that they were not able to rise: they are fallen vnder my feete.

³⁹For thou hast girded me with strength to battell: them, that rose against me, thou hast subdued vnder me.

⁴⁰And thou hast giuen me the neckes of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.

⁴¹They cryed but there was none to saue them, euen vnto the Lord, but hee answered them not.

⁴²Then I did beate them small as the dust before the winde: I did treade them flat as the clay in the streetes.