PsalmsJudaism / Hebrew BibleAccepted ScriptureBiblical Hebrew / AramaicSharePsalms 18WEB - EnglishMoreVersion - 9 availableWorld English BibleKing James VersionAmerican Standard VersionDarby BibleYoung's Literal TranslationWebster BibleGeneva BibleDouay-Rheims ChallonerReina-Valera 1909WEBKJVASVDarbyYLTWebsterGenevaDouayRV1909LanguageEnglishEspañol‹Psalms 1Psalms 2Psalms 3Psalms 4Psalms 5Psalms 6Psalms 7Psalms 8Psalms 9Psalms 10Psalms 11Psalms 12Psalms 13Psalms 14Psalms 15Psalms 16Psalms 17Psalms 18Psalms 19Psalms 20Psalms 21Psalms 22Psalms 23Psalms 24Psalms 25Psalms 26Psalms 27Psalms 28Psalms 29Psalms 30Psalms 31Psalms 32Psalms 33Psalms 34Psalms 35Psalms 36Psalms 37Psalms 38Psalms 39Psalms 40Psalms 41Psalms 42Psalms 43Psalms 44Psalms 45Psalms 46Psalms 47Psalms 48Psalms 49Psalms 50Psalms 51Psalms 52Psalms 53Psalms 54Psalms 55Psalms 56Psalms 57Psalms 58Psalms 59Psalms 60Psalms 61Psalms 62Psalms 63Psalms 64Psalms 65Psalms 66Psalms 67Psalms 68Psalms 69Psalms 70Psalms 71Psalms 72Psalms 73Psalms 74Psalms 75Psalms 76Psalms 77Psalms 78Psalms 79Psalms 80Psalms 81Psalms 82Psalms 83Psalms 84Psalms 85Psalms 86Psalms 87Psalms 88Psalms 89Psalms 90Psalms 91Psalms 92Psalms 93Psalms 94Psalms 95Psalms 96Psalms 97Psalms 98Psalms 99Psalms 100Psalms 101Psalms 102Psalms 103Psalms 104Psalms 105Psalms 106Psalms 107Psalms 108Psalms 109Psalms 110Psalms 111Psalms 112Psalms 113Psalms 114Psalms 115Psalms 116Psalms 117Psalms 118Psalms 119Psalms 120Psalms 121Psalms 122Psalms 123Psalms 124Psalms 125Psalms 126Psalms 127Psalms 128Psalms 129Psalms 130Psalms 131Psalms 132Psalms 133Psalms 134Psalms 135Psalms 136Psalms 137Psalms 138Psalms 139Psalms 140Psalms 141Psalms 142Psalms 143Psalms 144Psalms 145Psalms 146Psalms 147Psalms 148Psalms 149Psalms 150›Psalms 18ListenPlay this chapter in spoken English.Save chapterListen to chapter1I love you, Yahweh, my strength. 2Yahweh 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. 3I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised; and I am saved from my enemies. 4The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid. 5The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me. 6In 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. 7Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken, because he was angry. 8Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it. 9He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet. 10He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind. 11He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies. 12At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire. 13Yahweh also thundered in the sky. The Most High uttered his voice: hailstones and coals of fire. 14He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, great lightning bolts, and routed them. 15Then 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. 16He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters. 17He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me. 18They came on me in the day of my calamity, but Yahweh was my support. 19He brought me out also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me. 20Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands, he has recompensed me. 21For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly departed from my God. 22For all his ordinances were before me. I didn’t put away his statutes from me. 23I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity. 24Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight. 25With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect. 26With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd. 27For you will save the afflicted people, but the arrogant eyes you will bring down. 28For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness. 29For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall. 30As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him. 31For who is God, except Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God, 32the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect? 33He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and sets me on my high places. 34He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze. 35You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great. 36You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped. 37I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. I won’t turn away until they are consumed. 38I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet. 39For you have armed me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me. 40You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me. 41They cried, but there was no one to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them. 42Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets. 43You 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. 44As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me. 45The foreigners shall fade away, and shall come trembling out of their strongholds. 46Yahweh lives! Blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my salvation, 47even the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues peoples under me. 48He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man. 49Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations, and will sing praises to your name. 50He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his offspring, forever more. ‹Previous chapterPsalms 17Next chapterPsalms 19›Similar passagesBy tradition and source labelFind similarCompare selectedCompare with similarAsk Deep ThoughtSelect passages to search for parallels.VersionsPsalms 18 across 9 versionsShow all 9WEB - World English BibleKJV - King James VersionASV - American Standard VersionDarby - Darby BibleYLT - Young's Literal TranslationWebster - Webster BibleGeneva - Geneva BibleDouay - Douay-Rheims ChallonerRV1909 - Reina-Valera 1909Tap any verse to select it, then compare selected passages or ask Deep Thought. Public Domain