| 18:1
| I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.
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| 18:2
| 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.
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| 18:3
| I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be
saved from mine enemies.
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| 18:4
| The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me
afraid.
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| 18:5
| The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented
me.
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| 18:6
| In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard
my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his
ears.
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| 18:7
| Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills
moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
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| 18:8
| There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth
devoured: coals were kindled by it.
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| 18:9
| He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his
feet.
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| 18:10
| And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings
of the wind.
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| 18:11
| He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were
dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
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| 18:12
| At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail
stones and coals of fire.
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| 18:13
| The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice;
hail stones and coals of fire.
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| 18:14
| Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out
lightnings, and discomfited them.
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| 18:15
| Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world
were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy
nostrils.
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| 18:16
| He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
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| 18:17
| He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for
they were too strong for me.
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| 18:18
| They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
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| 18:19
| He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he
delighted in me.
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| 18:20
| The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the
cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
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| 18:21
| For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed
from my God.
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| 18:22
| For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his
statutes from me.
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| 18:23
| I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.
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| 18:24
| Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness,
according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
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| 18:25
| With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man
thou wilt shew thyself upright;
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| 18:26
| With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou
wilt shew thyself froward.
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| 18:27
| For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
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| 18:28
| For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my
darkness.
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| 18:29
| For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over
a wall.
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| 18:30
| As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a
buckler to all those that trust in him.
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| 18:31
| For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God?
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| 18:32
| It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.
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| 18:33
| He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places.
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| 18:34
| He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine
arms.
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| 18:35
| Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand
hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.
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| 18:36
| Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
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| 18:37
| I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn
again till they were consumed.
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| 18:38
| I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen
under my feet.
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| 18:39
| For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued
under me those that rose up against me.
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| 18:40
| Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy
them that hate me.
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| 18:41
| They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he
answered them not.
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| 18:42
| Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them
out as the dirt in the streets.
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| 18:43
| Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast
made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall
serve me.
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| 18:44
| As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall
submit themselves unto me.
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| 18:45
| The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.
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| 18:46
| The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation
be exalted.
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| 18:47
| It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.
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| 18:48
| He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those
that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.
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| 18:49
| Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and
sing praises unto thy name.
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| 18:50
| Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his
anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.
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