The Lord Is My Rock and My Fortress
Psa 18:1 For the director of music. Of David the servant of the LORD. He sang to the LORD the words of this song when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love you, O LORD, my strength.
Psa 18:2 The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge. He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
Psa 18:3 I call to the LORD, who is worthy of praise, and I am saved from my enemies.
Psa 18:4 The cords of death entangled me; the torrents of destruction overwhelmed me.
Psa 18:5 The cords of the grave coiled around me; the snares of death confronted me.
Psa 18:6 In my distress I called to the LORD; I cried to my God for help. From his temple he heard my voice; my cry came before him, into his ears.
Psa 18:7 The earth trembled and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains shook; they trembled because he was angry.
Psa 18:8 Smoke rose from his nostrils; consuming fire came from his mouth, burning coals blazed out of it.
Psa 18:9 He parted the heavens and came down; dark clouds were under his feet.
Psa 18:10 He mounted the cherubim and flew; he soared on the wings of the wind.
Psa 18:11 He made darkness his covering, his canopy around him— the dark rain clouds of the sky.
Psa 18:12 Out of the brightness of his presence clouds advanced, with hailstones and bolts of lightning.
Psa 18:13 The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded.
Psa 18:14 He shot his arrows and scattered the enemies, great bolts of lightning and routed them.
Psa 18:15 The valleys of the sea were exposed and the foundations of the earth laid bare at your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of breath from your nostrils.
Psa 18:16 He reached down from on high and took hold of me; he drew me out of deep waters.
Psa 18:17 He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from my foes, who were too strong for me.
Psa 18:18 They confronted me in the day of my disaster, but the LORD was my support.
Psa 18:19 He brought me out into a spacious place; he rescued me because he delighted in me.
Psa 18:20 The LORD has dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he has rewarded me.
Psa 18:21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD; I have not done evil by turning from my God.
Psa 18:22 All his laws are before me; I have not turned away from his decrees.
Psa 18:23 I have been blameless before him and have kept myself from sin.
Psa 18:24 The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.
Psa 18:25 To the faithful you show yourself faithful, to the blameless you show yourself blameless,
Psa 18:26 to the pure you show yourself pure, but to the crooked you show yourself shrewd.
Psa 18:27 You save the humble but bring low those whose eyes are haughty.
Psa 18:28 You, O LORD, keep my lamp burning; my God turns my darkness into light.
Psa 18:29 With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall.
Psa 18:30 As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is flawless. He is a shield for all who take refuge in him.
Psa 18:31 For who is God besides the LORD? And who is the Rock except our God?
Psa 18:32 It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way perfect.
Psa 18:33 He makes my feet like the feet of a deer; he enables me to stand on the heights.
Psa 18:34 He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
Psa 18:35 You give me your shield of victory, and your right hand sustains me; you stoop down to make me great.
Psa 18:36 You broaden the path beneath me, so that my ankles do not turn.
Psa 18:37 I pursued my enemies and overtook them; I did not turn back till they were destroyed.
Psa 18:38 I crushed them so that they could not rise; they fell beneath my feet.
Psa 18:39 You armed me with strength for battle; you made my adversaries bow at my feet.
Psa 18:40 You made my enemies turn their backs in flight, and I destroyed my foes.
Psa 18:41 They cried for help, but there was no one to save them— to the LORD, but he did not answer.
Psa 18:42 I beat them as fine as dust borne on the wind; I poured them out like mud in the streets.
Psa 18:43 You have delivered me from the attacks of the people; you have made me the head of nations; people I did not know are subject to me.
Psa 18:44 As soon as they hear me, they obey me; foreigners cringe before me.
Psa 18:45 They all lose heart; they come trembling from their strongholds.
Psa 18:46 The LORD lives! Praise be to my Rock! Exalted be God my Savior!
Psa 18:47 He is the God who avenges me, who subdues nations under me,
Psa 18:48 who saves me from my enemies. You exalted me above my foes; from violent men you rescued me.
Psa 18:49 Therefore I will praise you among the nations, O LORD; I will sing praises to your name.
Psa 18:50 He gives his king great victories; he shows unfailing kindness to his anointed, to David and his descendants forever.