Psalms 18:18-48

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.

³¹For who is God, save Jehovah? And who is a rock, besides our God,

³²The God that girdeth me with strength, And maketh my way perfect?

³³He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet: And setteth me upon my high places.

³⁴He teacheth my hands to war; So that mine arms do bend a bow of brass.

³⁵Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation; And thy right hand hath holden me up, And thy gentleness hath made me great.

³⁶Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, And my feet have not slipped.

³⁷I will pursue mine enemies, and overtake them; Neither will I turn again till they are consumed.

³⁸I will smite them through, so that they shall not be able to rise: They shall fall under my feet.

³⁹For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: Thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.

⁴⁰Thou hast also made mine enemies turn their backs unto me, That I might cut off them that hate me.

⁴¹They cried, but there was none to save; Even unto Jehovah, but he answered them not.

⁴²Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the mire of the streets.

⁴³Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; Thou hast made me the head of the nations: A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

⁴⁴As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me; The foreigners shall submit themselves unto me.

⁴⁵The foreigners shall fade away, And shall come trembling out of their close places.

⁴⁶Jehovah liveth; and blessed be my rock; And exalted be the God of my salvation,

⁴⁷Even the God that executeth vengeance for me, And subdueth peoples under me.

⁴⁸He rescueth me from mine enemies; Yea, thou liftest me up above them that rise up against me; Thou deliverest me from the violent man.