Psalms Capítulo 18

18 : 1 I love thee, O Jehovah, my strength.

18 : 2 Jehovah 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.

18 : 3 I will call upon Jehovah, who is worthy to be praised. So I shall be saved from my enemies.

18 : 4 The cords of death encompassed me, and the floods of lawlessness made me afraid.

18 : 5 The cords of Sheol were round about me. The snares of death came upon me.

18 : 6 In my distress I called upon Jehovah, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry before him came into his ears.

18 : 7 Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken because he was angry.

18 : 8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured. Coals were kindled by it.

18 : 9 He also bowed the heavens, and came down, and thick darkness was under his feet.

18 : 10 And he rode upon a cherub, and flew. Yea, he soared upon the wings of the wind.

18 : 11 He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion round about him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

18 : 12 At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire.

18 : 13 Jehovah also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice, hailstones and coals of fire.

18 : 14 And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them, Yea, lightnings manifold, and discomfited them.

18 : 15 Then the channels of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were laid bare at thy rebuke, O Jehovah, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

18 : 16 He sent from on high, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.

18 : 17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me.

18 : 18 They came upon me in the day of my calamity, but Jehovah was my stay.

18 : 19 He also brought me forth into a large place. He delivered me because he delighted in me.

18 : 20 Jehovah has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands he has recompensed me.

18 : 21 For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

18 : 22 For all his ordinances were before me, and I put not away his statutes from me.

18 : 23 I was also perfect with him, and I kept myself from my iniquity.

18 : 24 Therefore Jehovah has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.

18 : 25 With the merciful thou will show thyself merciful. With the perfect man thou will show thyself perfect.

18 : 26 With the pure thou will show thyself pure. And with the perverse thou will show thyself contrary.

18 : 27 For thou will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes thou will bring down.

18 : 28 For thou will light my lamp. Jehovah my God will lighten my darkness.

18 : 29 For by thee I run upon a troop, and by my God I leap over a wall.

18 : 30 As for God, his way is perfect. The word of Jehovah is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

18 : 31 For who is God, except Jehovah? And who is a rock, besides our God,

18 : 32 the God who girds me with strength, and makes my way perfect?

18 : 33 He makes my feet like hinds' feet, and sets me upon my high places.

18 : 34 He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of brass.

18 : 35 Thou have also given me the shield of thy salvation, and thy right hand has held me up, and thy gentleness has made me great.

18 : 36 Thou have enlarged my steps under me, and my feet have not slipped.

18 : 37 I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. Neither will I turn again till they are consumed.

18 : 38 I will smite them through, so that they shall not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet.

18 : 39 For thou have girded me with strength to the battle. Thou have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

18 : 40 Thou have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.

18 : 41 They cried, but there was none to save, even to Jehovah, but he answered them not.

18 : 42 Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets.

18 : 43 Thou have delivered me from the strivings of the people. Thou have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

18 : 44 As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.

18 : 45 The foreigners shall fade away, and shall come trembling out of their close places.

18 : 46 Jehovah lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be the God of my salvation,

18 : 47 even the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues peoples under me.

18 : 48 He rescues me from my enemies. Yea, thou lift me up above those who rise up against me. Thou deliver me from the violent man.

18 : 49 Therefore I will give thanks to thee, O Jehovah, among the Gentiles, and will sing praises to thy name.

18 : 50 He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his seed, for evermore.