Psalm 18:1-50 MEV

[1] I love You, O LORD, my strength. [2] The LORD is my pillar, and 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. [3] I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, and I will be saved from my enemies. [4] The cords of death encircled me, and the torrents of destruction terrified me. [5] The cords of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of death confronted me. [6] In my distress I called on the LORD, and cried for help to my God; He heard my voice from His temple, and my cry for help came before Him to His ears. [7] Then the earth shook and quaked; the foundations of the hills also moved; they reeled because His anger burned. [8] Smoke went up out of His nostrils, and fire from His mouth devoured; coals were kindled by it. [9] He bent the heavens and came down, and darkness was under His feet. [10] He rode on a cherub, and flew; He flew swiftly on the wings of the wind. [11] He made darkness His secret place; His pavilion was surrounding Him, dark waters and thick clouds of the skies. [12] At the brightness before Him His thick clouds passed by, hailstones and coals of fire. [13] The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High gave His voice, hailstones and coals of fire. [14] He sent out His arrows and scattered them, and He shot out lightning and distressed them. [15] Then the channels of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were discovered at Your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils. [16] He sent from above, He took me; He drew me out of many waters. [17] He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hated me, for they were too strong for me. [18] They confronted me in the day of my calamity, but the LORD was my support. [19] He also brought me forth into a large place; He delivered me because He delighted in me. [20] The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands He has repaid me. [21] For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God. [22] For all His judgments were before me, and I did not put away His statutes from me. [23] I was also upright before Him, and I kept myself from my iniquity. [24] Therefore the LORD has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in His view. [25] With the merciful You will show Yourself merciful; with the blameless man You will show Yourself blameless; [26] with the pure You will show Yourself pure; and with the crooked You will show Yourself crooked. [27] For You will save the afflicted people, but will bring down prideful eyes. [28] For You will cause my lamp to shine; the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness. [29] For by You I can run through a troop, and by my God I can leap a wall. [30] As for God, His way has integrity; the word of the LORD is proven; He is a shield to all those who take refuge in Him. [31] For who is God except the LORD? Or who is a rock besides our God? [32] It is God who clothes me with strength, and gives my way integrity. [33] He makes my feet like the feet of a deer, and causes me to stand on my high places. [34] He trains my hands for war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze. [35] You have given me the shield of Your salvation, and Your right hand has held me up, and Your gentleness has made me great. [36] You have lengthened my stride under me, so that my feet did not slip. [37] I pursued my enemies and overtook them; I did not return until they were destroyed. [38] I wounded them, and they were not able to rise; they are fallen under my feet. [39] For You clothed me with strength for the battle; You subdued under me those who rose up against me. [40] You gave me the necks of my enemies, and I destroyed those who hate me. [41] They cried for help, but there was none to save them; even to the LORD, but He did not answer them. [42] Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind; I cast them out as the dirt in the streets. [43] You have delivered me from the hostilities of the people, and You have made me the head of nations; a people whom I have not known serve me. [44] At hearing a report, they obey me; foreigners come cringing to me. [45] Foreigners fade away, and come quaking out of their prisons. [46] The LORD lives! And blessed be my Rock! May the God of my salvation be exalted. [47] It is God who avenges me and subdues the people under me; [48] He delivers me from my enemies. You lift me up above those who rise up against me; You have delivered me from the violent man. [49] Therefore I will give thanks to You, O LORD, among the nations, and sing praises to Your name. [50] He gives great deliverance to His king, and shows lovingkindness to His anointed, to David and to his descendants for evermore.