Thematic Bible
Psalm 18:1 (show verse)
I love thee, O LORD, my strength.
Psalm 18:2 (show verse)
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.
Psalm 18:3 (show verse)
I will call upon LORD, who is worthy to be praised. So I shall be saved from my enemies.
Psalm 18:4 (show verse)
The cords of death encompassed me, and the floods of lawlessness made me afraid.
Psalm 18:5 (show verse)
The cords of Sheol were round about me. The snares of death came upon me.
Psalm 18:6 (show verse)
In my distress I called upon LORD, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry before him came into his ears.
Psalm 18:7 (show verse)
Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken because he was angry.
Psalm 18:8 (show verse)
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured. Coals were kindled by it.
Psalm 18:9 (show verse)
He also bowed the heavens, and came down, and thick darkness was under his feet.
Psalm 18:10 (show verse)
And he rode upon a cherub, and flew. Yea, he soared upon the wings of the wind.
Psalm 18:11 (show verse)
He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion round about him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
Psalm 18:12 (show verse)
At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire.
Psalm 18:13 (show verse)
LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice, hailstones and coals of fire.
Psalm 18:14 (show verse)
And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them, Yea, lightnings manifold, and discomfited them.
Psalm 18:15 (show verse)
Then the channels of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were laid bare at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
Psalm 18:16 (show verse)
He sent from on high, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
Psalm 18:17 (show verse)
He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me.
Psalm 18:18 (show verse)
They came upon me in the day of my calamity, but LORD was my stay.
Psalm 18:19 (show verse)
He also brought me forth into a large place. He delivered me because he delighted in me.
Psalm 18:20 (show verse)
LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands he has recompensed me.
Psalm 18:21 (show verse)
For I have kept the ways of LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
Psalm 18:22 (show verse)
For all his ordinances were before me, and I put not away his statutes from me.
Psalm 18:23 (show verse)
I was also perfect with him, and I kept myself from my iniquity.
Psalm 18:24 (show verse)
Therefore LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
Psalm 18:25 (show verse)
With the merciful thou will show thyself merciful. With the perfect man thou will show thyself perfect.
Psalm 18:26 (show verse)
With the pure thou will show thyself pure. And with the perverse thou will show thyself contrary.
Psalm 18:27 (show verse)
For thou will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes thou will bring down.
Psalm 18:28 (show verse)
For thou will light my lamp. LORD my God will lighten my darkness.
Psalm 18:29 (show verse)
For by thee I run upon a troop, and by my God I leap over a wall.
Psalm 18:30 (show verse)
As for God, his way is perfect. The word of LORD is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
Psalm 18:31 (show verse)
For who is God, except LORD? And who is a rock, besides our God,
Psalm 18:32 (show verse)
the God who girds me with strength, and makes my way perfect?
Psalm 18:33 (show verse)
He makes my feet like hinds' [feet], and sets me upon my high places.
Psalm 18:34 (show verse)
He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of brass.
Psalm 18:35 (show verse)
Thou have also given me the shield of thy salvation, and thy right hand has held me up, and thy gentleness has made me great.
Psalm 18:36 (show verse)
Thou have enlarged my steps under me, and my feet have not slipped.
Psalm 18:37 (show verse)
I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. Neither will I turn again till they are consumed.
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Psalm 18:38 (show verse)
I will smite them through, so that they shall not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet.
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Psalm 18:39 (show verse)
For thou have girded me with strength to the battle. Thou have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
Psalm 18:40 (show verse)
Thou have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.
Psalm 18:41 (show verse)
They cried, but there was none to save, even to LORD, but he answered them not.
Psalm 18:42 (show verse)
Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets.
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Psalm 18:43 (show verse)
Thou have delivered me from the strivings of the people. Thou have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.
Psalm 18:44 (show verse)
As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.
Psalm 18:45 (show verse)
The foreigners shall fade away, and shall come trembling out of their close places.
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Psalm 18:46 (show verse)
LORD lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be the God of my salvation,
Psalm 18:47 (show verse)
even the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues peoples under me.
Psalm 18:48 (show verse)
He rescues me from my enemies. Yea, thou lift me up above those who rise up against me. Thou deliver me from the violent man.
Psalm 18:49 (show verse)
Therefore I will give thanks to thee, O LORD, among the Gentiles, and will sing praises to thy name.
Psalm 18:50 (show verse)
He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his seed, for evermore.