Salmos 18

1 I love thee, O Jehovah, my strength.

2 Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;

3 I will call upon Jehovah, who is worthy to be praised:

4 The cords of death compassed me,

5 The cords of Sheol were round about me;

6 In my distress I called upon Jehovah,

7 Then the earth shook and trembled;

8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils,

9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down;

10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly;

11 He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion round about him,

12 At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed,

13 Jehovah also thundered in the heavens,

14 And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them;

15 Then the channels of waters appeared,

16 He sent from on high, he took me;

17 He delivered me from my strong enemy,

18 They came upon me in the day of my calamity;

19 He brought me forth also into a large place;

20 Jehovah hath rewarded me according to my righteousness;

21 For I have kept the ways of Jehovah,

22 For all his ordinances were before me,

23 I was also perfect with him,

24 Therefore hath Jehovah recompensed me according to my righteousness,

25 With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful;

26 With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure;

27 For thou wilt save the afflicted people;

28 For thou wilt light my lamp:

29 For by thee I run upon a troop;

30 As for God, his way is perfect:

31 For who is God, save Jehovah?

32 The God that girdeth me with strength,

33 He maketh my feet like hinds’

34 He teacheth my hands to war;

35 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation;

36 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me,

37 I will pursue mine enemies, and overtake them;

38 I will smite them through, so that they shall not be able to rise:

39 For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle:

40 Thou hast also made mine enemies turn their backs unto me,

41 They cried, but there was none to save;

42 Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind;

43 Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people;

44 As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me;

45 The foreigners shall fade away,

46 Jehovah liveth; and blessed be my rock;

47 Even the God that executeth vengeance for me,

48 He rescueth me from mine enemies;

49 Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O Jehovah, among the nations,

50 Great deliverance giveth he to his king,