Psalms 18:5-24

⁵(18-6) The cords of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of Death confronted me.

⁶(18-7) In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God; out of His temple He heard my voice, and my cry came before Him unto His ears.

⁷(18-8) Then the earth did shake and quake, the foundations also of the mountains did tremble; they were shaken, because He was wroth.

⁸(18-9) Smoke arose up in His nostrils, and fire out of His mouth did devour; coals flamed forth from Him.

⁹(18-10) He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and thick darkness was under His feet.

¹⁰(18-11) And He rode upon a cherub, and did fly; yea, He did swoop down upon the wings of the wind.

¹¹(18-12) He made darkness His hiding-place, His pavilion round about Him; darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

¹²(18-13) At the brightness before Him, there passed through His thick clouds hailstones and coals of fire.

¹³(18-14) The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High gave forth His voice; hailstones and coals of fire.

¹⁴(18-15) And He sent out His arrows, and scattered them; and He shot forth lightnings, and discomfited them.

¹⁵(18-16) And the channels of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were laid bare, at Thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of Thy nostrils.

¹⁶(18-17) He sent from on high, He took me; He drew me out of many waters.

¹⁷(18-18) He delivered me from mine enemy most strong, and from them that hated me, for they were too mighty for me.

¹⁸(18-19) They confronted me in the day of my calamity; but the LORD was a stay unto me.

¹⁹(18-20) He brought me forth also into a large place; He delivered me, because He delighted in me.

²⁰(18-21) The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath He recompensed me.

²¹(18-22) For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

²²(18-23) For all His ordinances were before me, and I put not away His statutes from me.

²³(18-24) And I was single-hearted with Him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.

²⁴(18-25) Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in His eyes.