|  | 18:1 | I will love thee, O Yahweh, my strength. | 
|  | 18:2 | Yahweh is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my El, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. | 
|  | 18:3 | I will call upon Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies. | 
|  | 18:4 | The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of wicked men made me afraid. | 
|  | 18:5 | The sorrows of the grave compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me. | 
|  | 18:6 | In my distress I called upon Yahweh, and cried unto my Elohim: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears. | 
|  | 18:7 | Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth. | 
|  | 18:8 | There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. | 
|  | 18:9 | He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet. | 
|  | 18:10 | And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. | 
|  | 18:11 | He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies. | 
|  | 18:12 | At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire. | 
|  | 18:13 | Yahweh also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire. | 
|  | 18:14 | Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them. | 
|  | 18:15 | Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O Yahweh, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils. | 
|  | 18:16 | He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters. | 
|  | 18:17 | He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me. | 
|  | 18:18 | They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but Yahweh was my stay. | 
|  | 18:19 | He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me. | 
|  | 18:20 | Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. | 
|  | 18:21 | For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly departed from my Elohim. | 
|  | 18:22 | For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me. | 
|  | 18:23 | I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity. | 
|  | 18:24 | Therefore hath Yahweh recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight. | 
|  | 18:25 | With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright; | 
|  | 18:26 | With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward. | 
|  | 18:27 | For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks. | 
|  | 18:28 | For thou wilt light my candle: Yahweh my Elohim will enlighten my darkness. | 
|  | 18:29 | For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my Elohim have I leaped over a wall. | 
|  | 18:30 | As for El, his way is perfect: the word of Yahweh is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him. | 
|  | 18:31 | For who is Eloah save Yahweh? or who is a rock save our Elohim? | 
|  | 18:32 | It is El that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect. | 
|  | 18:33 | He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places. | 
|  | 18:34 | He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms. | 
|  | 18:35 | Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great. | 
|  | 18:36 | Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip. | 
|  | 18:37 | I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed. | 
|  | 18:38 | I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet. | 
|  | 18:39 | For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me. | 
|  | 18:40 | Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me. | 
|  | 18:41 | They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto Yahweh, but he answered them not. | 
|  | 18:42 | Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets. | 
|  | 18:43 | Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me. | 
|  | 18:44 | As soon as they hear  of me, they shall obey me: the strangers  shall submit themselves unto me. | 
|  | 18:45 | The strangers  shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places. | 
|  | 18:46 | Yahweh liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the Elohim of my salvation be exalted. | 
|  | 18:47 | It is El that avengeth  me, and subdueth the people under me. | 
|  | 18:48 | He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man. | 
|  | 18:49 | Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O Yahweh, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name. | 
|  | 18:50 | Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore. |