Psalm 18:4
Cross References
Luke 21:20
And when you shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is near.


Psalm 55:4
My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen on me.


Psalm 69:2
I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.


Psalm 116:3
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell got hold on me: I found trouble and sorrow.


Psalm 124:3
Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:


Psalm 124:4
Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:


Isaiah 17:12
Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!


Jeremiah 51:55
Because the LORD has spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:


Jonah 2:2
And said, I cried by reason of my affliction to the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and you heard my voice.


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Commentaries
18:1-19 The first words, I will love thee, O Lord, my strength, are the scope and contents of the psalm. Those that truly love God, may triumph in him as their Rock and Refuge, and may with confidence call upon him. It is good for us to observe all the circumstances of a mercy which magnify the power of God and his goodness to us in it. David was a praying man, and God was found a prayer-hearing God. If we pray as he did, we shall speed as he did. God's manifestation of his presence is very fully described, ver. 7-15. Little appeared of man, but much of God, in these deliverances. It is not possible to apply to the history of the son of Jesse those awful, majestic, and stupendous words which are used through this description of the Divine manifestation. Every part of so solemn a scene of terrors tells us, a greater than David is here. God will not only deliver his people out of their troubles in due time, but he will bear them up under their troubles in the mean time. Can we meditate on ver. 18, without directing one thought to Gethsemane and Calvary? Can we forget that it was in the hour of Christ's deepest calamity, when Judas betrayed, when his friends forsook, when the multitude derided him, and the smiles of his Father's love were withheld, that the powers of darkness prevented him? The sorrows of death surrounded him, in his distress he prayed, Heb 5:7. God made the earth to shake and tremble, and the rocks to cleave, and brought him out, in his resurrection, because he delighted in him and in his undertaking.

4. sorrows—literally, "bands as of a net" (Ps 116:3).

floods—denotes "multitude."

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