(Psa 18:1) To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song 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 thee, O LORD, my strength.
(Psa 18:2) The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
(Psa 18:3) I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
(Psa 18:4) The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
(Psa 18:5) The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
(Psa 18:6) In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
(Psa 18:7) Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
(Psa 18:8) There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
(Psa 18:9) He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
(Psa 18:10) And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
(Psa 18:11) He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
(Psa 18:12) At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
(Psa 18:13) The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
(Psa 18:14) Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
(Psa 18:15) Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
(Psa 18:16) He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
(Psa 18:17) He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.
(Psa 18:18) They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.