021) Psalm 18

Psalm 18 To the chief Musician, apsalmof David, the servant of the Lord, who spakethewords of this Song, in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hands of all his enemies, and from the handofSaul. and he Said,

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1 I’LL dearly love thee, Lord, my strength.

2The Lord is my rock, and my tower and my deliverer, my God, I’ll trust in him who is my power, My shield, and my salvation’s-horn, 3 my high-fort; Who is praise worthy I on the Lord will call, so shall I be kept from mine enemy.

4 Deaths sorrows me encompassed, me fear’d the floods of ungodly, 5 Hells pangs beset me round about, the snares of death prevented me.

6 I in my straits, call’d on the Lord, and to my God cry’d: he did hear from his temple my voice, my cry, before him came, unto his ear.

7 Then th’ earth shook, and quak’t, and mountains roots mov’d, and were stirr’d at his ire, 8 Up from his nostrils went a smoke, and from his mouth devouring fire: By it the coals enkindled were.

9 Likewise the heavens he down-bow’d, and he descended, and there was under his feet a gloomy cloud.

10 And he on cherub rode, and flew; yea he flew on the wings of wind.

11 His secret place he darkness made his covert that him round confine, Dark waters, and thick clouds of skies.

12 From brightness, that before him was, his thicken’d clouds did pass away, hail-stones and coals of fire did pass.

13 Also Jehovah thundered, within the heavens, the most high likewise his angry-voice did give, hail-stones, and coals of fire did fly.

14 Yea he did out his arrows send, and bruising he them scattered, and lightnings he did multiply, likewise he them discomfited.

15 The waters channels then were seen, and the foundations of the world appear’d; at thy rebuke, at blast, of the breath of thy nostrils Lord.