{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/web/psalms/18","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T01:58:59.063Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Psalms","bookSlug":"psalms","chapter":18,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":17,"nextChapter":19,"totalChapters":150,"totalVerses":50},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"I love you, Yahweh, my strength."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised; and I am saved from my enemies."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken, because he was angry."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Yahweh also thundered in the sky. The Most High uttered his voice: hailstones and coals of fire."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, great lightning bolts, and routed them."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"They came on me in the day of my calamity, but Yahweh was my support."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"He brought me forth also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly departed from my God."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"For all his ordinances were before me. I didn't put away his statutes from me."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"For you will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes you will bring down."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"For who is God, except Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God,"},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?"},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"He makes my feet like deer's feet, and sets me on my high places."},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze."},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great."},{"verseNumber":36,"text":"You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped."},{"verseNumber":37,"text":"I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. Neither will I turn again until they are consumed."},{"verseNumber":38,"text":"I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet."},{"verseNumber":39,"text":"For you have armed me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me."},{"verseNumber":40,"text":"You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me."},{"verseNumber":41,"text":"They cried, but there was none to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn't answer them."},{"verseNumber":42,"text":"Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets."},{"verseNumber":43,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":44,"text":"As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me."},{"verseNumber":45,"text":"The foreigners shall fade away, and shall come trembling out of their close places."},{"verseNumber":46,"text":"Yahweh lives; and blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my salvation,"},{"verseNumber":47,"text":"even the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues peoples under me."},{"verseNumber":48,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":49,"text":"Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations, and will sing praises to your name."},{"verseNumber":50,"text":"He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his seed, forevermore. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David."}],"citation":{"inline":"Psalms 18 (WEB)","markdown":"[Psalms 18](https://primebible.com/web/psalms/18)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/psalms/18 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}