Psalms 18
I love you, Yahweh, my strength.
my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
and I am saved from my enemies.
The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
The snares of death came on me.
My cry before him came into his ears.
because he was angry.
Coals were kindled by it.
Thick darkness was under his feet.
Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.
darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
hailstones and coals of fire.
hailstones and coals of fire.
Yes, great lightning bolts, and routed them.
at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
He drew me out of many waters.
from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
but Yahweh was my support.
He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
According to the cleanness of my hands, he has recompensed me.
and have not wickedly departed from my God.
I didn’t put away his statutes from me.
I kept myself from my iniquity.
according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.
With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
but the arrogant eyes you will bring down.
My God will light up my darkness.
By my God, I leap over a wall.
He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
Who is a rock, besides our God,
the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?
and sets me on my high places.
so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.
Your gentleness has made me great.
My feet have not slipped.
I won’t turn away until they are consumed.
They shall fall under my feet.
You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
that I might cut off those who hate me.
even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.
I cast them out as the mire of the streets.
A people whom I have not known shall serve me.
The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.
and shall come trembling out of their strongholds.
Exalted be the God of my salvation,
and subdues peoples under me.
You deliver me from the violent man.
and will sing praises to your name.
to David and to his offspring, forever more.