Psalms 18:4-21

⁴The snares of death encompassed me; The floods of destruction filled me with dismay;

⁵The snares of the underworld surrounded me, And the nets of death seized upon me.

⁶In my distress I called upon the LORD, And cried unto my God; He heard my voice from his palace, And my cry came before him into his ears.

⁷Then the earth quaked and trembled; The foundations of the mountains rocked and were shaken, Because his wrath was kindled.

⁸A smoke went up from his nostrils, And fire from his mouth devoured; Burning coals shot forth from him.

⁹He bowed the heavens, and came down; And darkness was under his feet;

¹⁰And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly; Yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.

¹¹And he made darkness his covering; His pavilion round about him was dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

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

¹³The LORD also thundered from heaven, And the Most High uttered his voice, Amid hailstones and coals of fire.

¹⁴He sent forth his arrows, and scattered them; Continual lightnings, and discomfited them.

¹⁵Then the channels of the deep were seen, And the foundations of the earth were laid bare At thy rebuke, O LORD! At the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

¹⁶He stretched forth his hand from above; he took me, And drew me out of deep waters.

¹⁷He delivered me from my strong enemy; From my adversaries, who were too powerful for me.

¹⁸They fell upon me in the day of my calamity; But the LORD was my stay.

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

²⁰The LORD hath rewarded me according to my righteous; According to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

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