Psalms 18
1 For the choirmaster. Of David the servant of the LORD, who sang this song to the LORD on the day the LORD had delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love You, O LORD, my strength.
to/for to conduct to/for servant/slave LORD to/for David which to speak: speak to/for LORD [obj] word [the] song [the] this in/on/with day to rescue LORD [obj] him from palm all enemy his and from hand: power Saul and to say to have compassion you LORD strength my
2 The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer. My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
LORD crag my and fortress my and to escape me God my rock my to seek refuge in/on/with him shield my and horn salvation my high refuge my
3 I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; so shall I be saved from my enemies.
to boast: praise to call: call to LORD and from enemy my to save
4 The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.
to surround me cord death and torrent: river Belial: destruction to terrify me
cord hell: Sheol to turn: surround me to meet me snare death (Sheol h7585)
6 In my distress I called upon the LORD; I cried to my God for help. From His temple He heard my voice, and my cry for His help reached His ears.
in/on/with distress to/for me to call: call to LORD and to(wards) God my to cry to hear: hear from temple his voice my and cry my to/for face: before his to come (in): come in/on/with ear his
7 Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains trembled; they were shaken because He burned with anger.
and to shake and to shake [the] land: country/planet and foundation mountain: mount to tremble and to shake for to be incensed to/for him
8 Smoke rose from His nostrils, and consuming fire came from His mouth; glowing coals blazed forth.
to ascend: rise smoke in/on/with face: nose his and fire from lip his to eat coal to burn: burn from him
9 He parted the heavens and came down with dark clouds beneath His feet.
and to stretch heaven and to go down and cloud underneath: under foot his
10 He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.
and to ride upon cherub and to fly and to fly upon wing spirit: breath
11 He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him.
to set: make darkness secrecy his around him booth his dark water cloud cloud
12 From the brightness of His presence His clouds advanced— hailstones and coals of fire.
from brightness before him cloud his to pass hail and coal fire
13 The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded— hailstones and coals of fire.
and to thunder in/on/with heaven LORD and Most High to give: cry out voice his hail and coal fire
14 He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them.
and to send: depart arrow his and to scatter them and lightning to multiply ten thousand and to confuse them
15 The channels of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed, at Your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.
and to see: see channel water and to reveal: uncover foundation world from rebuke your LORD from breath spirit: breath face: nose your
16 He reached down from on high and took hold of me; He drew me out of deep waters.
to send: depart from height to take: take me to draw me from water many
17 He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from foes too mighty for me.
to rescue me from enemy my strong and from to hate me for to strengthen from me
18 They confronted me in my day of calamity, but the LORD was my support.
to meet me in/on/with day calamity my and to be LORD to/for support to/for me
19 He brought me out into the open; He rescued me because He delighted in me.
and to come out: send me to/for broad to rescue me for to delight in in/on/with me
20 The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.
to wean me LORD like/as righteousness my like/as cleanness hand my to return: pay to/for me
21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD and have not wickedly departed from my God.
for to keep: obey way: conduct LORD and not be wicked from God my
22 For all His ordinances are before me; I have not disregarded His statutes.
for all justice: judgement his to/for before me and statute his not to turn aside: remove from me
23 And I have been blameless before Him and kept myself from iniquity.
and to be unblemished: blameless with him and to keep: guard from iniquity: crime my
24 So the LORD has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in His sight.
and to return: pay LORD to/for me like/as righteousness my like/as cleanness hand my to/for before eye: seeing his
25 To the faithful You show Yourself faithful, to the blameless You show Yourself blameless;
with pious be kind with great man unblemished: blameless to finish
26 to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.
with to purify to purify and with twisted to twist
27 For You save an afflicted people, but You humble those with haughty eyes.
for you(m. s.) people afflicted to save and eye to exalt to abase
28 For You, O LORD, light my lamp; my God lights up my darkness.
for you(m. s.) to light lamp my LORD God my to shine darkness my
29 For in You I can charge an army, and with my God I can scale a wall.
for in/on/with you to run: run band and in/on/with God my to leap wall
30 As for God, His way is perfect; the word of the LORD is flawless. He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.
[the] God unblemished way: conduct his word LORD to refine shield he/she/it to/for all [the] to seek refuge in/on/with him
31 For who is God besides the LORD? And who is the Rock except our God?
for who? god from beside LORD and who? rock exception God our
32 It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way clear.
[the] God [the] to gird me strength and to give: make unblemished: blameless way: conduct my
33 He makes my feet like those of a deer and stations me upon the heights.
to set foot my like/as doe and upon high place my to stand: stand me
34 He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
to learn: teach hand my to/for battle and to descend bow bronze arm my
35 You have given me Your shield of salvation; Your right hand upholds me, and Your gentleness exalts me.
and to give: give to/for me shield salvation your and right your to support me and gentleness your to multiply me
36 You broaden the path beneath me so that my ankles do not give way.
to enlarge step my underneath: under me and not to slip ankle my
37 I pursued my enemies and overtook them; I did not turn back until they were consumed.
to pursue enemy my and to overtake them and not to return: return till to end: destroy them
38 I crushed them so they could not rise; they have fallen under my feet.
to wound them and not be able to arise: rise to fall: fall underneath: under foot my
39 You have armed me with strength for battle; You have subdued my foes beneath me.
and to gird me strength to/for battle to bow to arise: rise me underneath: under me
40 You have made my enemies retreat before me; I put an end to those who hated me.
and enemy my to give: put to/for me neck and to hate me to destroy them
41 They cried for help, but there was no one to save them— to the LORD, but He did not answer.
to cry and nothing to save upon LORD and not to answer them
42 I ground them as dust in the face of the wind; I trampled them like mud in the streets.
and to beat them like/as dust upon face: before spirit: breath like/as mud outside to empty them
43 You have delivered me from the strife of the people; You have made me the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.
to escape me from strife people to set: make me to/for head: leader nation people not to know to serve: minister me
44 When they hear me, they obey me; foreigners cower before me.
to/for report ear: hearing to hear: obey to/for me son: type of foreign to deceive to/for me
45 Foreigners lose heart and come trembling from their strongholds.
son: type of foreign to wither and to quake from perimeter their
46 The LORD lives, and blessed be my Rock! And may the God of my salvation be exalted—
alive LORD and to bless rock my and to exalt God salvation my
47 the God who avenges me and subdues nations beneath me,
[the] God [the] to give: give vengeance to/for me and to speak: subdue people underneath: under me
48 who delivers me from my enemies. You exalt me above my foes; You rescue me from violent men.
to escape me from enemy my also from to arise: rise me to exalt me from man violence to rescue me
49 Therefore I will praise You, O LORD, among the nations; I will sing praises to Your name.
upon so to give thanks you in/on/with nation LORD and to/for name your to sing
50 Great salvation He brings to His king. He shows loving devotion to His anointed, to David and his descendants forever.
(to magnify *Q(k)*) salvation king his and to make: do kindness to/for anointed his to/for David and to/for seed: children his till forever: enduring
