The Psalms
capítulo 18
verso 1
For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of Yahweh, who spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said, I love you, Yahweh, my strength.
verso 2
Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
verso 3
I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised; and I am saved from my enemies.
verso 4
The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
verso 5
The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me.
verso 6
In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.
verso 7
Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.
verso 8
Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.
verso 9
He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.
verso 10
He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.
verso 11
He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
verso 12
At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire.
verso 13
Yahweh also thundered in the sky. The Most High uttered his voice: hailstones and coals of fire.
verso 14
He sent out his arrows, and scattered them. He routed them with great lightning bolts.
verso 15
Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
verso 16
He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.
verso 17
He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
verso 18
They came on me in the day of my calamity, but Yahweh was my support.
verso 19
He brought me out also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
verso 20
Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands, he has recompensed me.
verso 21
For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
verso 22
For all his ordinances were before me. I didn’t put away his statutes from me.
verso 23
I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.
verso 24
Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
verso 25
With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.
verso 26
With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
verso 27
For you will save the afflicted people, but the arrogant eyes you will bring down.
verso 28
For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.
verso 29
For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall.
verso 30
As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
verso 31
For who is God, except Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God,
verso 32
the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?
verso 33
He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and sets me on my high places.
verso 34
He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.
verso 35
You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.
verso 36
You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.
verso 37
I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. I won’t turn away until they are consumed.
verso 38
I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet.
verso 39
For you have armed me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
verso 40
You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.
verso 41
They cried, but there was no one to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.
verso 42
Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets.
verso 43
You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.
verso 44
As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.
verso 45
The foreigners shall fade away, and shall come trembling out of their strongholds.
verso 46
Yahweh lives! Blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my salvation,
verso 47
even the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues peoples under me.
verso 48
He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.
verso 49
Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations, and will sing praises to your name.
verso 50
He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his offspring, forever more.
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