Psalms 18:18-49

¹⁸They came before me in the day of my torment; and the Lord was made my defender.

¹⁹And he led out me into breadth; he made me safe, for he would me.

²⁰And the Lord shall yield to me by my rightfulness or rightwiseness; and he shall yield to me by the cleanness of mine hands.

²¹For I kept the ways of the Lord; and I did not go away unfaithfully from my God.

²²For all his dooms be in my sight; and I putted not away from me his rightfulnesses or rightwisenesses.

²³And I shall be unwemmed with him; and I shall keep me from my wickedness.

²⁴And the Lord shall yield to me by my rightfulness or rightwiseness; and by the cleanness of mine hands in the sight of his eyes.

²⁵With the holy, thou shalt be holy; and with an innocent man, thou shalt be innocent.

²⁶And with a chosen man, thou shalt be chosen; and with a wayward man, thou shalt be wayward.

²⁷For thou shalt make safe a meek people; and thou shalt make meek the eyes of proud men.

²⁸For thou, Lord, lightenest my lantern; my God, lighten thou my darknesses.

²⁹For by thee I shall be delivered from temptation; and in my God I shall go over the wall.

³⁰My God, his way is undefouled; the speeches of the Lord be examined by fire; he is the defender of all men hoping in him.

³¹For why, who is God, except the Lord? either who is God, except our God?

³²God that hath girded me with virtue; and hath set my way unwem-med.

³³Which made perfect my feet as the feet of harts; and ordaining me on high things.

³⁴Which teacheth mine hands to battle; and thou hast set mine arms as a brazen bow.

³⁵And thou hast given to me the covering of thine health; and thy right hand hath up-taken me. And thy chastising amended me into the end; and that chastising of thee shall teach me.

³⁶Thou alargedest my paces under me; and my steps be not made un-steadfast.

³⁷I shall pursue mine enemies, and I shall take them; and I shall not turn till they fail.

³⁸I shall all-break them, and they shall not be able to stand; they shall fall under my feet.

³⁹And thou hast girded me with virtue to battle; and thou hast overturned under me men rising against me.

⁴⁰And thou hast given mine enemies aback or back to me; and thou hast destroyed them that hated me.

⁴¹They cried, and none there was that made them safe; they cried to the Lord, and he heard not them.

⁴²And I shall all-break them, as dust before the face of the wind; I shall do them away, as the clay of streets.

⁴³Thou shalt deliver me from the against-sayings of the people; thou shalt set me into the head of folks. The people, which I knew not, hath served me;

⁴⁴in the hearing of ear it obeyed to me. Alien sons lied down to me,

⁴⁵alien sons waxed eld; and went crooked from thy paths.

⁴⁶The Lord liveth, and my God be blessed; and the God of mine health be enhanced.

⁴⁷God, that givest vengeances to me, and makest subject peoples under me;

⁴⁸thou art my deliverer from my wrathful enemies. And thou shalt enhance me from them, that rise against me; thou shalt deliver me from a wicked man.

⁴⁹Therefore, Lord, I shall acknowl-edge to thee among nations; and I shall say psalm to thy name.