Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I will take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
New American Standard Bible
My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge;
My
King James Version
The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
Holman Bible
my fortress, and my deliverer,
my God, my mountain where I seek refuge,
my shield
my stronghold.
International Standard Version
The LORD is my rock, my fortress, my deliverer, my God, my stronghold in whom I take refuge, my shield, the glory of my salvation, and my high tower."
American Standard Version
Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; My God, my rock, in whom I will take refuge; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
Amplified
The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and the One who rescues me;
My God, my rock and strength in whom I trust and take refuge;
My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower—my stronghold.
Bible in Basic English
The Lord is my Rock, my walled town, and my saviour; my God, my Rock, in him will I put my faith; my breastplate, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
Darby Translation
Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I will trust; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
Julia Smith Translation
Jehovah is my rock and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, I will put my trust in him; my shield and the horn of my salvation, my height.
King James 2000
The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Yahweh [is] my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock in whom I have taken refuge, my shield and the horn of my deliverance, my stronghold.
Modern King James verseion
Jehovah is my strength, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock; I will trust in Him; He is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The LORD is my stony rock, and my defense, my Saviour, my God, and my might, in whom I will trust, my buckler, the horn also of my salvation, and my refuge. {TYNDALE: The LORD is my rock, my castle and my deliverer. God is my strength, and in him will I trust: my shield and the horn that defendeth me: mine high hold and refuge.}
NET Bible
The Lord is my high ridge, my stronghold, my deliverer. My God is my rocky summit where I take shelter, my shield, the horn that saves me, and my refuge.
New Heart English Bible
The LORD 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.
The Emphasized Bible
Yahweh, was my mountain crag and my stronghold, and my deliverer: My GOD, was my rock, I sought refuge in him, My shield, and my horn of salvation, my high tower.
Webster
The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
World English Bible
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Jehovah is my rock, and my bulwark, And my deliverer, My God is my rock, I trust in Him: My shield, and a horn of my salvation, My high tower.
Themes
Battle of Life » God » Represented as » A fortress
Deliverance » The lord being your deliverer
Fort » Figurative » Of God's care
Fortresses » Illustrative of » God's protection
Horns » Illustrative » Of power of God
Privileges of saints » Having God for their » Salvation
Privileges of saints » Having God for their » Strength
Privileges of saints » Having God for their » deliverer
Protection » Saints » Acknowledge God as their
Protection » Exemplified » David
Select readings » Mankind in extremity
Salvation » Illustrated by » A horn
Topics
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 18:2
Images Psalm 18:2
Prayers for Psalm 18:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Praise For Deliverance
1 I love thee, O LORD, my strength. 2 LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I will take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower. 3 I will call upon LORD, who is worthy to be praised. So I shall be saved from my enemies.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Psalm 28:1
To thee, O LORD, I will call. My rock, be not thou deaf to me, lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like those who go down into the pit.
Psalm 144:2
my loving kindness, and my fortress, my high tower, and my deliverer, my shield, and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues my people under me.
2 Samuel 22:3
God, my rock, in him I will take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my savior. Thou save me from violence.
Psalm 19:14
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my rock, and my redeemer.
Psalm 59:11
Kill them not, lest my people forget. Scatter them by thy power, and bring them down, O LORD our shield,
Psalm 62:2
He only is my rock and my salvation, my high tower. I shall not be greatly moved.
Psalm 62:7
With God is my salvation and my glory. The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.
Psalm 75:10
All the horns of the wicked I will also cut off, but the horns of a righteous man shall be lifted up.
Psalm 91:2
I will say of LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.
Psalm 91:4
He will cover thee with his pinions, and under his wings shall thou take refuge. His truth is a shield and a buckler.
Psalm 132:17
There I will make the horn of David to bud. I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.
Proverbs 2:7
He lays up sound wisdom for the upright, a shield to those who walk in integrity,
Proverbs 18:10
The name of LORD is a strong tower. A righteous man runs into it, and is safe.
Isaiah 32:2
And a man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a weary land.
Jeremiah 16:19
O LORD, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to thee the nations shall come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, [even] vanity and things in whic
Hebrews 2:13
And again, I will be a man who has trusted in him. And again, Behold, I and the children that God has given me.