Parallel Verses
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.
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."
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.
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.
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 To the overseer; to the servant of Jehovah, of David who spake to Jehovah the words of this song in the day Jehovah delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he will say, I will love thee, O Jehovah, my strength. 2 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. 3 Praising, I will call upon Jehovah, and I shall be saved from mine enemies.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Psalm 28:1
To David. To thee, O Jehovah, will I call, my rock; thou wilt not be silent from me: lest thou wilt be silent from me and I was made like with them going down to the pit
Psalm 144:2
My mercy and my fortress, my height and delivering for me; my shield, and in him I put my trust; treading down peoples under me.
2 Samuel 22:3
The God of my rock; I will trust in him: My shield and the horn of my salvation, my height and my refuge; My saviour; thou wilt save me from violence.
Psalm 19:14
The saying of my mouth and the meditation of my heart shall be for acceptance before thee, O Jehovah, my rock and my redeemer.
Psalm 59:11
Thou wilt not kill them lest my people shall forget: cause them to wander to and fro by thy strength, and bring them down, O Jehovah, our shield.
Psalm 62:2
Surely he my rock and my salvation, my height; I shall not be greatly moved.
Psalm 62:7
Upon God my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, my refuge in God.
Psalm 75:10
And all the horns of the unjust will I cut off; the horns of the just one shall be exalted.
Psalm 91:2
Saying to Jehovah, My refuge and my fortress: my God, I will trust in thee
Psalm 91:4
He will cover thee with his wing feathers, and under his wings thou shalt trust: his truth a shield and buckler.
Psalm 132:17
There will I cause the horn to David to spring up: I prepared a lamp for my Messiah.
Proverbs 2:7
He treasured up deliverance for the upright: a shield to those going in uprightness:
Proverbs 18:10
The name of Jehovah a tower of strength: into it the just one shall run and be exalted.
Isaiah 32:2
And a man was as a hiding of the spirit, and a covering of the tempest; as brooks of water in Zion, as the shadow of a weighty rock in a weary land.
Jeremiah 16:19
O Jehovah, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in days of straits, to thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and they shall say, Surely our fathers inherited falsehood, vanity, and no receiving profit in them.
Hebrews 2:13
And again, I will be confident in him. And again, Behold I and the young children which God gave me.