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Psalm 18

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.

World English Bible WEB

1 <<For the Chief Musician. By David, the servant of Yahweh, who spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said,>> I love you, Yahweh, my strength.

2 Yahweh is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; My God, my rock, in whom I will take refuge; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

3 I will call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised; So shall I be saved from my enemies.

4 The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

5 The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came on me.

6 In my distress I called on Yahweh, And cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple, My cry before him came into his ears.

7 Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken, Because he was angry.

8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, Fire out of his mouth devoured; Coals were kindled by it.

9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.

10 He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.

11 He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion around him, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

12 At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, Hailstones and coals of fire.

13 Yahweh also thundered in the sky, The Most High uttered his voice, Hailstones and coals of fire.

14 He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, lightnings manifold, and routed them.

15 Then the channels of waters appeared, The foundations of the world were laid bare, At your rebuke, Yahweh, At the blast of the breath of your nostrils.

16 He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.

17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, From those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.

18 They came on me in the day of my calamity, But Yahweh was my support.

19 He brought me forth also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

20 Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.

21 For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, And have not wickedly departed from my God.

22 For all his ordinances were before me. I didn't put away his statutes from me.

23 I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.

24 Therefore has Yahweh recompensed me according to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.

25 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.

26 With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.

27 For you will save the afflicted people, But the haughty eyes you will bring down.

28 For you will light my lamp. Yahweh, my God, will light up my darkness.

29 For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall.

30 As for God, his way is perfect. The word of Yahweh is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

31 For who is God, except Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God,

32 The God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?

33 He makes my feet like hinds' feet, And sets me on my high places.

34 He teaches my hands to war; So that my arms bend a bow of bronze.

35 You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.

36 You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.

37 I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. Neither will I turn again until they are consumed.

38 I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet.

39 For you have girded me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

40 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, That I might cut off those who hate me.

41 They cried, but there was none to save; Even to Yahweh, but he didn't answer them.

42 Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets.

43 You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

44 As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.

45 The foreigners shall fade away, And shall come trembling out of their close places.

46 Yahweh lives; and blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my salvation,

47 Even the God who executes vengeance for me, And subdues peoples under me.

48 He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.

49 Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations, And will sing praises to your name.

50 He gives great deliverance to his king, And shows lovingkindness to his anointed, To David and to his seed, forevermore.