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Psalm 18

1 I will love you, O LORD, my strength.
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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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3 I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from my enemies.
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4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
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5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
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6 In my distress I called on the LORD, and cried to my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
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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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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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9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
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10 And he rode on a cherub, and did fly: yes, he did fly on the wings of the wind.
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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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12 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
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13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
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14 Yes, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightning, and discomfited them.
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15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
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16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
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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 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
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19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
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20 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
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21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
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22 For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.
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23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from my iniquity.
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24 Therefore has the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
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25 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful; with an upright man you will show yourself upright;
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26 With the pure you will show yourself pure; and with the fraudulent you will show yourself devious.
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27 For you will save the afflicted people; but will bring down high looks.
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28 For you will light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
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29 For by you I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.
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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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31 For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God?
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32 It is God that girds me with strength, and makes my way perfect.
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33 He makes my feet like hinds' feet, and sets me on my high places.
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34 He teaches my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by my arms.
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35 You have also given me the shield of your salvation: and your right hand has held me up, and your gentleness has made me great.
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36 You have enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
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37 I have pursued my enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.
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38 I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.
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39 For you have girded me with strength to the battle: you have subdued under me those that rose up against me.
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40 You have also given me the necks of my enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.
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41 They cried, but there was none to save them: even to the LORD, but he answered them not.
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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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43 You have delivered me from the strivings of the people; and you have made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.
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44 As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves to me.
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45 The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.
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46 The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.
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47 It is God that avenges me, and subdues the people under me.
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48 He delivers me from my enemies: yes, you lift me up above those that rise up against me: you have delivered me from the violent man.
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49 Therefore will I give thanks to you, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises to your name.
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50 Great deliverance gives he to his king; and shows mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for ever more.
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