Psalms 18:5-16

⁵The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.

⁶In my distress I called upon Jehovah, And cried unto my God: He heard my voice out of his temple, And my cry before him came into his ears.

⁷Then the earth shook and trembled; The foundations also of the mountains quaked And were shaken, because he was wroth.

⁸There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, And fire out of his mouth devoured: Coals were kindled by it.

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

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

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.