translation_id: asv-eng-asv

book_id: PSA

book: Psalms

reference: Psalms 18:1

text: I love thee, O Jehovah, my strength.


reference: Psalms 18:2

text: Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; My God, my rock, in whom I will take refuge; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.


reference: Psalms 18:3

text: I will call upon Jehovah, who is worthy to be praised: So shall I be saved from mine enemies.


reference: Psalms 18:4

text: The cords of death compassed me, And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid.


reference: Psalms 18:5

text: The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.


reference: Psalms 18:6

text: In my distress I called upon Jehovah, And cried unto my God: He heard my voice out of his temple, And my cry before him came into his ears.


reference: Psalms 18:7

text: Then the earth shook and trembled; The foundations also of the mountains quaked And were shaken, because he was wroth.


reference: Psalms 18:8

text: There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, And fire out of his mouth devoured: Coals were kindled by it.


reference: Psalms 18:9

text: He bowed the heavens also, and came down; And thick darkness was under his feet.


reference: Psalms 18:10

text: And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly; Yea, he soared upon the wings of the wind.


reference: Psalms 18:11

text: He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion round about him, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.


reference: Psalms 18:12

text: At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, Hailstones and coals of fire.


reference: Psalms 18:13

text: Jehovah also thundered in the heavens, And the Most High uttered his voice, Hailstones and coals of fire.


reference: Psalms 18:14

text: And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yea, lightnings manifold, and discomfited them.


reference: Psalms 18:15

text: Then the channels of waters appeared, And the foundations of the world were laid bare, At thy rebuke, O Jehovah, At the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.


reference: Psalms 18:16

text: He sent from on high, he took me; He drew me out of many waters.


reference: Psalms 18:17

text: He delivered me from my strong enemy, And from them that hated me; for they were too mighty for me.


reference: Psalms 18:18

text: They came upon me in the day of my calamity; But Jehovah was my stay.


reference: Psalms 18:19

text: He brought me forth also into a large place; He delivered me, because he delighted in me.


reference: Psalms 18:20

text: Jehovah hath rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.


reference: Psalms 18:21

text: For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, And have not wickedly departed from my God.


reference: Psalms 18:22

text: For all his ordinances were before me, And I put not away his statutes from me.


reference: Psalms 18:23

text: I was also perfect with him, And I kept myself from mine iniquity.


reference: Psalms 18:24

text: Therefore hath Jehovah recompensed me according to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.


reference: Psalms 18:25

text: With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful; With the perfect man thou wilt show thyself perfect;


reference: Psalms 18:26

text: With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; And with the perverse thou wilt show thyself froward.


reference: Psalms 18:27

text: For thou wilt save the afflicted people; But the haughty eyes thou wilt bring down.


reference: Psalms 18:28

text: For thou wilt light my lamp: Jehovah my God will lighten my darkness.


reference: Psalms 18:29

text: For by thee I run upon a troop; And by my God do I leap over a wall.


reference: Psalms 18:30

text: As for God, his way is perfect: The word of Jehovah is tried; He is a shield unto all them that take refuge in him.


reference: Psalms 18:31

text: For who is God, save Jehovah? And who is a rock, besides our God,


reference: Psalms 18:32

text: The God that girdeth me with strength, And maketh my way perfect?


reference: Psalms 18:33

text: He maketh my feet like hinds' feet: And setteth me upon my high places.


reference: Psalms 18:34

text: He teacheth my hands to war; So that mine arms do bend a bow of brass.


reference: Psalms 18:35

text: Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation; And thy right hand hath holden me up, And thy gentleness hath made me great.


reference: Psalms 18:36

text: Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, And my feet have not slipped.


reference: Psalms 18:37

text: I will pursue mine enemies, and overtake them; Neither will I turn again till they are consumed.


reference: Psalms 18:38

text: I will smite them through, so that they shall not be able to rise: They shall fall under my feet.


reference: Psalms 18:39

text: For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: Thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.


reference: Psalms 18:40

text: Thou hast also made mine enemies turn their backs unto me, That I might cut off them that hate me.


reference: Psalms 18:41

text: They cried, but there was none to save; Even unto Jehovah, but he answered them not.


reference: Psalms 18:42

text: Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the mire of the streets.


reference: Psalms 18:43

text: Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; Thou hast made me the head of the nations: A people whom I have not known shall serve me.


reference: Psalms 18:44

text: As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me; The foreigners shall submit themselves unto me.


reference: Psalms 18:45

text: The foreigners shall fade away, And shall come trembling out of their close places.


reference: Psalms 18:46

text: Jehovah liveth; and blessed be my rock; And exalted be the God of my salvation,


reference: Psalms 18:47

text: Even the God that executeth vengeance for me, And subdueth peoples under me.


reference: Psalms 18:48

text: He rescueth me from mine enemies; Yea, thou liftest me up above them that rise up against me; Thou deliverest me from the violent man.


reference: Psalms 18:49

text: Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O Jehovah, among the nations, And will sing praises unto thy name.


reference: Psalms 18:50

text: Great deliverance giveth he to his king, And showeth lovingkindness to his anointed, To David and to his seed, for evermore.