Psalms 18
1 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
For the leader. Of David, the servant of the Lord, who recited the words of this song to the Lord after the Lord had saved him from the power of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love you, O Lord, my strength.
2 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
The Lord is my rock, my fortress, deliverer, my God, my rock, where I take refuge, my shield, my defender, my tower.
3 to boast: praise to call: call to LORD and from enemy my to save
Worthy of praise is the Lord whom I call on, he rescues me from all my foes.
4 to surround me cord death and torrent: river Belial: destruction to terrify me
The waves of death broke about me, fearful floods of chaos.
Sheol threw cords around me, snares of death came to meet me. (Sheol h7585)
6 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
In distress I cried to the Lord, and shouted for help to my God; in his temple he heard my voice, into his ears came my cry.
7 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
Then the earth shook and quaked, mountains trembled to their foundations, and quaked because of his wrath.
8 to ascend: rise smoke in/on/with face: nose his and fire from lip his to eat coal to burn: burn from him
Smoke went up from his nostrils, devouring fire from his mouth, coals were kindled by it.
9 and to stretch heaven and to go down and cloud underneath: under foot his
Then he bent the sky and came down, thick darkness was under his feet.
10 and to ride upon cherub and to fly and to fly upon wing spirit: breath
He rode on a cherub and flew, darting on wings of wind,
11 to set: make darkness secrecy his around him booth his dark water cloud cloud
with his screen of darkness about him, in thick dark clouds of water.
12 from brightness before him cloud his to pass hail and coal fire
At the radiance before him there passed hailstones and coals of fire.
13 and to thunder in/on/with heaven LORD and Most High to give: cry out voice his hail and coal fire
The Lord thundered from heaven, the Most High uttered his voice.
14 and to send: depart arrow his and to scatter them and lightning to multiply ten thousand and to confuse them
He shot his arrows and scattered them, flashed lightnings, and routed them.
15 and to see: see channel water and to reveal: uncover foundation world from rebuke your LORD from breath spirit: breath face: nose your
The channels of the sea were revealed, the world was laid bare to its base, at your rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
16 to send: depart from height to take: take me to draw me from water many
He stretched from on high, he seized me, drew me up from the mighty waters,
17 to rescue me from enemy my strong and from to hate me for to strengthen from me
and saved me from those who hated me – fierce foes, too mighty for me.
18 to meet me in/on/with day calamity my and to be LORD to/for support to/for me
In my day of distress they assailed me, but the Lord proved my support.
19 and to come out: send me to/for broad to rescue me for to delight in in/on/with me
To a spacious place he brought me, and, for love of me, he saved me.
20 to wean me LORD like/as righteousness my like/as cleanness hand my to return: pay to/for me
The Lord repays my innocence, he rewards my cleanness of hands.
21 for to keep: obey way: conduct LORD and not be wicked from God my
For I kept the ways of the Lord, nor have wickedly strayed from my God.
22 for all justice: judgement his to/for before me and statute his not to turn aside: remove from me
His commandments were all before me, his statutes I put not away.
23 and to be unblemished: blameless with him and to keep: guard from iniquity: crime my
And I was blameless before him, guarding myself from sin.
24 and to return: pay LORD to/for me like/as righteousness my like/as cleanness hand my to/for before eye: seeing his
So the Lord repaid my innocence, my cleanness of hands in his sight.
25 with pious be kind with great man unblemished: blameless to finish
With the loyal you are loyal, and with the blameless blameless.
26 with to purify to purify and with twisted to twist
With the pure you show yourself pure, but shrewd with the devious.
27 for you(m. s.) people afflicted to save and eye to exalt to abase
For the lowly people you save, but haughty eyes you abase.
28 for you(m. s.) to light lamp my LORD God my to shine darkness my
You are my lamp, Lord, my God who enlightens my darkness.
29 for in/on/with you to run: run band and in/on/with God my to leap wall
With you I can storm a rampart, with my God I can leap a wall.
30 [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
As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the Lord is pure. He is shield to all who take refuge in him.
31 for who? god from beside LORD and who? rock exception God our
For who is God but the Lord? And who is a rock but our God?
32 [the] God [the] to gird me strength and to give: make unblemished: blameless way: conduct my
The God who arms me with strength, who cleared and smoothed my way.
33 to set foot my like/as doe and upon high place my to stand: stand me
He made my feet like hinds’ feet, and set me up on the heights.
34 to learn: teach hand my to/for battle and to descend bow bronze arm my
He taught my hands how to fight, and my arms how to bend a bronze bow.
35 and to give: give to/for me shield salvation your and right your to support me and gentleness your to multiply me
The shield of your help you gave me, your right hand supports me, you stoop down to make me great.
36 to enlarge step my underneath: under me and not to slip ankle my
In your strength I took giant strides, and my feet never slipped.
37 to pursue enemy my and to overtake them and not to return: return till to end: destroy them
So I chased the foe till I caught them, and turned not, till I made an end of them.
38 to wound them and not be able to arise: rise to fall: fall underneath: under foot my
I smashed them, they could not rise, they fell beneath my feet.
39 and to gird me strength to/for battle to bow to arise: rise me underneath: under me
You did arm me with strength for war, you did bow my assailants beneath me.
40 and enemy my to give: put to/for me neck and to hate me to destroy them
You made my foes turn their back to me, and those who did hate me I finished.
41 to cry and nothing to save upon LORD and not to answer them
They cried for help, but none saved them; to the Lord, but he answered them not.
42 and to beat them like/as dust upon face: before spirit: breath like/as mud outside to empty them
I beat them like dust of the market-place, stamped them like mud of the streets.
43 to escape me from strife people to set: make me to/for head: leader nation people not to know to serve: minister me
From the strife of the peoples you saved me, you made me head of the nations, peoples I knew not did serve me.
44 to/for report ear: hearing to hear: obey to/for me son: type of foreign to deceive to/for me
On the instant they hear, they obey me, foreigners come to me cringing.
45 son: type of foreign to wither and to quake from perimeter their
Foreigners lose courage, and come out of their strongholds trembling.
46 alive LORD and to bless rock my and to exalt God salvation my
The Lord is alive! Blest be my rock! Exalted be God, my protector!
47 [the] God [the] to give: give vengeance to/for me and to speak: subdue people underneath: under me
The God who gave me revenge, and brought down nations beneath me,
48 to escape me from enemy my also from to arise: rise me to exalt me from man violence to rescue me
who saved me from angry foes, and set me above my assailants, safe from the violent.
49 upon so to give thanks you in/on/with nation LORD and to/for name your to sing
For this I will praise you among the nations, making music, O Lord, to your name:
50 (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
for great triumphs he grants to his king, and faithful love he shows his anointed, to David and his seed evermore.
