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Psalm 18

Common English Bible CEB

1 He said: I love you, LORD, my strength.

2 The LORD is my solid rock, my fortress, my rescuer. My God is my rock— I take refuge in him!— he's my shield, my salvation's strength, my place of safety.

3 Because he is praiseworthy, I cried out to the LORD, and I was saved from my enemies.

4 Death's cords were wrapped around me; rivers of wickedness terrified me.

5 The cords of the grave surrounded me; death's traps held me tight.

6 In my distress I cried out to the LORD; I called to my God for help. God heard my voice from his temple; I called to him for help, and my call reached his ears.

7 The earth rocked and shook; the bases of the mountains trembled and reeled because of God's anger.

8 Smoke went up from God's nostrils; out of his mouth came a devouring fire; flaming coals blazed out in front of him!

9 God parted the skies and came down; thick darkness was beneath his feet.

10 God mounted the heavenly creatures and flew; he soared on the wings of the wind.

11 God made darkness cloak him; his covering was dark water and dense cloud.

12 God's clouds went ahead of the brightness before him; hail and coals of fire went too.

13 The LORD thundered in heaven; the Most High made his voice heard with hail and coals of fire.

14 God shot his arrows, scattering the enemy; he sent the lightning and threw them into confusion.

15 The seabeds were exposed; the earth's foundations were laid bare at your rebuke, LORD, at the angry blast of air coming from your nostrils.

16 From on high God reached down and grabbed me; he took me out of all that water.

17 God saved me from my powerful enemy, saved me from my foes, who were too much for me.

18 They came at me on the very day of my distress, but the LORD was my support.

19 He brought me out to wide-open spaces; he pulled me out safe because he is pleased with me.

20 The LORD rewarded me for my righteousness; he restored me because my hands are clean,

21 because I have kept the LORD's ways. I haven't acted wickedly against my God.

22 All his rules are right in front of me; I haven't turned away from any of his laws.

23 I have lived with integrity before him; I've kept myself from wrongdoing.

24 And so the LORD restored me for my righteousness because my hands are clean in his eyes.

25 You deal faithfully with the faithful; you show integrity toward the one who has integrity.

26 You are pure toward the pure, but toward the crooked, you are tricky.

27 You are the one who saves people who suffer and brings down those with proud eyes.

28 You are the one who lights my lamp— the LORD my God illumines my darkness.

29 With you I can charge into battle; with my God I can leap over a wall.

30 God! His way is perfect; the LORD's word is tried and true. He is a shield for all who take refuge in him.

31 Now really, who is divine except the LORD? And who is a rock but our God?

32 Only God! The God who equips me with strength and makes my way perfect,

33 who makes my step as sure as the deer's, who lets me stand securely on the heights,

34 who trains my hands for war so my arms can bend a bronze bow.

35 You've given me the shield of your salvation; your strong hand has supported me; your help has made me great.

36 You've let me walk fast and safe, without even twisting an ankle.

37 I chased my enemies and caught them! I didn't come home until I finished them off.

38 I struck them down; they couldn't get up again; they fell under my feet.

39 You equipped me with strength for war; you brought my adversaries down underneath me.

40 You made my enemies turn tail from me; I destroyed my foes.

41 They cried for help, but there was no one to save them. They cried for help to the LORD, but he wouldn't answer them.

42 I crushed them like dust blown away by the wind; I threw them out like mud dumped in the streets.

43 You delivered me from struggles with many people; you appointed me the leader of many nations. Strangers come to serve me.

44 After hearing about me, they obey me; foreigners grovel before me.

45 Foreigners lose their nerve; they come trembling out of their fortresses.

46 The LORD lives! Bless God, my rock! Let the God of my salvation be lifted high!

47 This is the God who avenges on my behalf, who subdues people before me,

48 who delivers me from my enemies. Yes, you lifted me high above my adversaries; you delivered me from violent people.

49 That's why I thank you, LORD, in the presence of the nations. That's why I sing praises to your name.

50 You are the one who gives great victories to your king, who shows faithful love to your anointed one— to David and to his descendants forever.

The Message Bible MSG

1 I love you, God - you make me strong.

2 God is bedrock under my feet, the castle in which I live, my rescuing knight. My God - the high crag where I run for dear life, hiding behind the boulders, safe in the granite hideout.

3 I sing to God, the Praise-Lofty, and find myself safe and saved.

4 The hangman's noose was tight at my throat; devil waters rushed over me.

5 Hell's ropes cinched me tight; death traps barred every exit.

6 A hostile world! I call to God, I cry to God to help me. From his palace he hears my call; my cry brings me right into his presence - a private audience!

7 Earth wobbles and lurches; huge mountains shake like leaves, Quake like aspen leaves because of his rage.

8 His nostrils flare, bellowing smoke; his mouth spits fire. Tongues of fire dart in and out;

9 he lowers the sky. He steps down; under his feet an abyss opens up.

10 He's riding a winged creature, swift on wind-wings.

11 Now he's wrapped himself in a trenchcoat of black-cloud darkness.

12 But his cloud-brightness bursts through, spraying hailstones and fireballs.

13 Then God thundered out of heaven; the High God gave a great shout, spraying hailstones and fireballs.

14 God shoots his arrows - pandemonium! He hurls his lightnings - a rout!

15 The secret sources of ocean are exposed, the hidden depths of earth lie uncovered The moment you roar in protest, let loose your hurricane anger.

16 But me he caught - reached all the way from sky to sea; he pulled me out

17 that enemy chaos, the void in which I was drowning.

18 They hit me when I was down, but God stuck by me.

19 He stood me up on a wide-open field; I stood there saved - surprised to be loved!

20 God made my life complete when I placed all the pieces before him. When I got my act together, he gave me a fresh start.

21 Now I'm alert to God's ways; I don't take God for granted.

22 Every day I review the ways he works; I try not to miss a trick.

23 I feel put back together, and I'm watching my step.

24 God rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes.

25 The good people taste your goodness, The whole people taste your health,

26 The true people taste your truth, The bad ones can't figure you out.

27 You take the side of the down-and-out, But the stuck-up you take down a peg.

28 Suddenly, God, you floodlight my life; I'm blazing with glory, God's glory!

29 I smash the bands of marauders, I vault the highest fences.

30 What a God! His road stretches straight and smooth. Every God-direction is road-tested. Everyone who runs toward him Makes it.

31 Is there any god like God? Are we not at bedrock?

32 Is not this the God who armed me, then aimed me in the right direction?

33 Now I run like a deer; I'm king of the mountain.

34 He shows me how to fight; I can bend a bronze bow!

35 You protect me with salvation-armor; you hold me up with a firm hand, caress me with your gentle ways.

36 You cleared the ground under me so my footing was firm.

37 When I chased my enemies I caught them; I didn't let go till they were dead men.

38 I nailed them; they were down for good; then I walked all over them.

39 You armed me well for this fight, you smashed the upstarts.

40 You made my enemies turn tail, and I wiped out the haters.

41 They cried "uncle" but Uncle didn't come; They yelled for God and got no for an answer.

42 I ground them to dust; they gusted in the wind. I threw them out, like garbage in the gutter.

43 You rescued me from a squabbling people; you made me a leader of nations. People I'd never heard of served me;

44 the moment they got wind of me they listened.

45 they came on their bellies, crawling from their hideouts.

46 Live, God! Blessings from my Rock, my free and freeing God, towering!

47 This God set things right for me and shut up the people who talked back.

48 He rescued me from enemy anger, he pulled me from the grip of upstarts, He saved me from the bullies.

49 That's why I'm thanking you, God, all over the world. That's why I'm singing songs that rhyme your name.

50 God's king takes the trophy; God's chosen is beloved. I mean David and all his children - always.