< Psalms 18 >
1 Unto the end. For David, the servant of the Lord, who spoke the words of this canticle to the Lord, in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. And he said: I will 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 firmament, my refuge, and my liberator. My God is my helper, and I hope in him: my protector, and the horn of my salvation, and my support.
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 Praising, I will call upon the Lord. And I will be saved from my enemies.
to boast: praise to call: call to LORD and from enemy my to save
4 The sorrows of death surrounded me, and the torrents of iniquity dismayed me.
to surround me cord death and torrent: river Belial: destruction to terrify me
5 The sorrows of Hell encompassed me, and the snares of death intercepted me. (Sheol )
cord hell: Sheol to turn: surround me to meet me snare death (Sheol )
6 In my tribulation, I called upon the Lord, and I cried out to my God. And he listened to my voice from his holy temple. And my cry in his presence entered into 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 The earth was shaken, and it trembled. The foundations of the mountains were disturbed, and they were shaken, because he was angry with them.
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 A smoke ascended by his wrath, and a fire flared up from his face: coals were kindled by it.
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 bent the heavens, and they descended. And darkness was under his feet.
and to stretch heaven and to go down and cloud underneath: under foot his
10 And he ascended upon the cherubim, and he flew: he flew upon the feathers of the winds.
and to ride upon cherub and to fly and to fly upon wing spirit: breath
11 And he set darkness as his hiding place, with his tabernacle all around him: dark waters in the clouds of the air.
to set: make darkness secrecy his around him booth his dark water cloud cloud
12 At the brightness that was before his sight, the clouds crossed by, with hail and coals of fire.
from brightness before him cloud his to pass hail and coal fire
13 And the Lord thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered his voice: hail 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 And he sent forth his arrows and scattered them. He multiplied lightnings, and he set them in disarray.
and to send: depart arrow his and to scatter them and lightning to multiply ten thousand and to confuse them
15 Then the fountains of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were revealed, by your rebuke, O Lord, by the inspiration of the Spirit of your wrath.
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 sent from on high, and he accepted me. And he took me up, out of many waters.
to send: depart from height to take: take me to draw me from water many
17 He rescued me from my strongest enemies, and from those who hated me. For they had been too strong for me.
to rescue me from enemy my strong and from to hate me for to strengthen from me
18 They intercepted me in the day of my affliction, and the Lord became my protector.
to meet me in/on/with day calamity my and to be LORD to/for support to/for me
19 And he led me out, into a wide place. He accomplished my salvation, because he willed me.
and to come out: send me to/for broad to rescue me for to delight in in/on/with me
20 And the Lord will reward me according to my justice, and he will repay me according to the purity 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 preserved the ways of the Lord, and I have not behaved impiously before my God.
for to keep: obey way: conduct LORD and not be wicked from God my
22 For all his judgments are in my sight, and his justice, I have not pushed away from me.
for all justice: judgement his to/for before me and statute his not to turn aside: remove from me
23 And I will be immaculate together with him, and I will keep myself from my iniquity.
and to be unblemished: blameless with him and to keep: guard from iniquity: crime my
24 And the Lord will reward me according to my justice and according to the purity of my hands before his eyes.
and to return: pay LORD to/for me like/as righteousness my like/as cleanness hand my to/for before eye: seeing his
25 With the holy, you will be holy, and with the innocent, you will be innocent,
with pious be kind with great man unblemished: blameless to finish
26 and with the elect, you will be elect, and with the perverse, you will be perverse.
with to purify to purify and with twisted to twist
27 For you will save the humble people, but you will bring down the eyes of the arrogant.
for you(m. s.) people afflicted to save and eye to exalt to abase
28 For you illuminate my lamp, O Lord. My God, enlighten my darkness.
for you(m. s.) to light lamp my LORD God my to shine darkness my
29 For in you, I will be delivered from temptation; and with my God, I will climb over a wall.
for in/on/with you to run: run band and in/on/with God my to leap wall
30 As for my God, his way is undefiled. The eloquence of the Lord has been examined by fire. He is the protector of all who hope 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, except the Lord? And who is God, except our God?
for who? god from beside LORD and who? rock exception God our
32 It is God who has wrapped me with virtue and made my way immaculate.
[the] God [the] to gird me strength and to give: make unblemished: blameless way: conduct my
33 It is he who has perfected my feet, like the feet of deer, and who stations me upon the heights.
to set foot my like/as doe and upon high place my to stand: stand me
34 It is he who trains my hands for battle. And you have set my arms like a bow of brass.
to learn: teach hand my to/for battle and to descend bow bronze arm my
35 And you have given me the protection of your salvation. And your right hand sustains me. And your discipline has corrected me unto the end. And your discipline itself will teach 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 have expanded my footsteps under me, and my tracks have not been weakened.
to enlarge step my underneath: under me and not to slip ankle my
37 I will pursue my enemies and apprehend them. And I will not turn back until they have failed.
to pursue enemy my and to overtake them and not to return: return till to end: destroy them
38 I will break them, and they will not be able to stand. They will fall under my feet.
to wound them and not be able to arise: rise to fall: fall underneath: under foot my
39 And you have wrapped me with virtue for the battle. And those rising up against me, you have subdued under me.
and to gird me strength to/for battle to bow to arise: rise me underneath: under me
40 And you have given the back of my enemies to me, and you have destroyed those who hated me.
and enemy my to give: put to/for me neck and to hate me to destroy them
41 They cried out, but there was none to save them, to the Lord, but he did not heed them.
to cry and nothing to save upon LORD and not to answer them
42 And I will crush them into dust before the face of the wind, so that I will obliterate them like the 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 will rescue me from the contradictions of the people. You will set me at the head of the Gentiles.
to escape me from strife people to set: make me to/for head: leader nation people not to know to serve: minister me
44 A people I did not know has served me. As soon as their ears heard, they were obedient to me.
to/for report ear: hearing to hear: obey to/for me son: type of foreign to deceive to/for me
45 The sons of foreigners have been deceitful to me, the sons of foreigners have grown weak with time, and they have wavered from their paths.
son: type of foreign to wither and to quake from perimeter their
46 The Lord lives, and blessed is my God, and may the God of my salvation be exalted:
alive LORD and to bless rock my and to exalt God salvation my
47 O God, who vindicates me and who subdues the people under me, my liberator from my enraged enemies.
[the] God [the] to give: give vengeance to/for me and to speak: subdue people underneath: under me
48 And you will exalt me above those who rise up against me. From the iniquitous man, you will rescue me.
to escape me from enemy my also from to arise: rise me to exalt me from man violence to rescue me
49 Because of this, O Lord, I will confess to you among the nations, and I will compose a psalm to your name:
upon so to give thanks you in/on/with nation LORD and to/for name your to sing
50 magnifying the salvation of his king, and showing mercy to David, his Christ, and to his offspring, even for all time.
(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