Psalms 18 Parallel Bible Translations

Psalms 18 ▼
swipe to see more →
CPDV
Catholic Public Domain Version
ESV
English Standard Version
NIV
New International Version
+Add
1 <V 17:1>Unto the end. For David, the servant of the Lord, who spoke the words of this canticle to the Lord, in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. And he said: <V 17:2>I will love you, O Lord my strength. I love you, O LORD, my strength. For the director of music. Of David the servant of the LORD. He sang to the LORD the words of this song when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love you, LORD, my strength.
2 <V 17:3>The Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my liberator. My God is my helper, and I hope in him: my protector, and the horn of my salvation, and my support. The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
3 <V 17:4>Praising, I will call upon the Lord. And I will be saved from my enemies. I call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies. I called to the LORD, who is worthy of praise, and I have been saved from my enemies.
4 <V 17:5>The sorrows of death surrounded me, and the torrents of iniquity dismayed me. The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of destruction assailed me; The cords of death entangled me; the torrents of destruction overwhelmed me.
5 <V 17:6>The sorrows of Hell encompassed me, and the snares of death intercepted me. the cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me. The cords of the grave coiled around me; the snares of death confronted me.
6 <V 17:7>In my tribulation, I called upon the Lord, and I cried out to my God. And he listened to my voice from his holy temple. And my cry in his presence entered into his ears. In my distress I called upon the LORD; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears. In my distress I called to the LORD; I cried to my God for help. From his temple he heard my voice; my cry came before him, into his ears.
7 <V 17:8>The earth was shaken, and it trembled. The foundations of the mountains were disturbed, and they were shaken, because he was angry with them. Then the earth reeled and rocked; the foundations also of the mountains trembled and quaked, because he was angry. The earth trembled and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains shook; they trembled because he was angry.
8 <V 17:9>A smoke ascended by his wrath, and a fire flared up from his face: coals were kindled by it. Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from his mouth; glowing coals flamed forth from him. Smoke rose from his nostrils; consuming fire came from his mouth, burning coals blazed out of it.
9 <V 17:10>He bent the heavens, and they descended. And darkness was under his feet. He bowed the heavens and came down; thick darkness was under his feet. He parted the heavens and came down; dark clouds were under his feet.
10 <V 17:11>And he ascended upon the cherubim, and he flew: he flew upon the feathers of the winds. He rode on a cherub and flew; he came swiftly on the wings of the wind. He mounted the cherubim and flew; he soared on the wings of the wind.
11 <V 17:12>And he set darkness as his hiding place, with his tabernacle all around him: dark waters in the clouds of the air. He made darkness his covering, his canopy around him, thick clouds dark with water. He made darkness his covering, his canopy around him— the dark rain clouds of the sky.
12 <V 17:13>At the brightness that was before his sight, the clouds crossed by, with hail and coals of fire. Out of the brightness before him hailstones and coals of fire broke through his clouds. Out of the brightness of his presence clouds advanced, with hailstones and bolts of lightning.
13 <V 17:14>And the Lord thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered his voice: hail and coals of fire. The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice, hailstones and coals of fire. The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded.
14 <V 17:15>And he sent forth his arrows and scattered them. He multiplied lightnings, and he set them in disarray. And he sent out his arrows and scattered them; he flashed forth lightnings and routed them. He shot his arrows and scattered the enemy, with great bolts of lightning he routed them.
15 <V 17:16>Then the fountains of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were revealed, by your rebuke, O Lord, by the inspiration of the Spirit of your wrath. Then the channels of the sea were seen, and the foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils. The valleys of the sea were exposed and the foundations of the earth laid bare at your rebuke, LORD, at the blast of breath from your nostrils.
16 <V 17:17>He sent from on high, and he accepted me. And he took me up, out of many waters. He sent from on high, he took me; he drew me out of many waters. He reached down from on high and took hold of me; he drew me out of deep waters.
17 <V 17:18>He rescued me from my strongest enemies, and from those who hated me. For they had been too strong for me. He rescued me from my strong enemy and from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me. He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from my foes, who were too strong for me.
18 <V 17:19>They intercepted me in the day of my affliction, and the Lord became my protector. They confronted me in the day of my calamity, but the LORD was my support. They confronted me in the day of my disaster, but the LORD was my support.
19 <V 17:20>And he led me out, into a wide place. He accomplished my salvation, because he willed me. He brought me out into a broad place; he rescued me, because he delighted in me. He brought me out into a spacious place; he rescued me because he delighted in me.
20 <V 17:21>And the Lord will reward me according to my justice, and he will repay me according to the purity of my hands. The LORD dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he rewarded me. The LORD has dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he has rewarded me.
21 <V 17:22>For I have preserved the ways of the Lord, and I have not behaved impiously before my God. For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God. For I have kept the ways of the LORD; I am not guilty of turning from my God.
22 <V 17:23>For all his judgments are in my sight, and his justice, I have not pushed away from me. For all his rules were before me, and his statutes I did not put away from me. All his laws are before me; I have not turned away from his decrees.
23 <V 17:24>And I will be immaculate together with him, and I will keep myself from my iniquity. I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from my guilt. I have been blameless before him and have kept myself from sin.
24 <V 17:25>And the Lord will reward me according to my justice and according to the purity of my hands before his eyes. So the LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight. The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.
25 <V 17:26>With the holy, you will be holy, and with the innocent, you will be innocent, With the merciful you show yourself merciful; with the blameless man you show yourself blameless; To the faithful you show yourself faithful, to the blameless you show yourself blameless,
26 <V 17:27>and with the elect, you will be elect, and with the perverse, you will be perverse. with the purified you show yourself pure; and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous. to the pure you show yourself pure, but to the devious you show yourself shrewd.
27 <V 17:28>For you will save the humble people, but you will bring down the eyes of the arrogant. For you save a humble people, but the haughty eyes you bring down. You save the humble but bring low those whose eyes are haughty.
28 <V 17:29>For you illuminate my lamp, O Lord. My God, enlighten my darkness. For it is you who light my lamp; the LORD my God lightens my darkness. You, LORD, keep my lamp burning; my God turns my darkness into light.
29 <V 17:30>For in you, I will be delivered from temptation; and with my God, I will climb over a wall. For by you I can run against a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall. With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall.
30 <V 17:31>As for my God, his way is undefiled. The eloquence of the Lord has been examined by fire. He is the protector of all who hope in him. This God—his way is perfect; the word of the LORD proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him. As for God, his way is perfect: The LORD’s word is flawless; he shields all who take refuge in him.
31 <V 17:32>For who is God, except the Lord? And who is God, except our God? For who is God, but the LORD? And who is a rock, except our God?— For who is God besides the LORD? And who is the Rock except our God?
32 <V 17:33>It is God who has wrapped me with virtue and made my way immaculate. the God who equipped me with strength and made my way blameless. It is God who arms me with strength and keeps my way secure.
33 <V 17:34>It is he who has perfected my feet, like the feet of deer, and who stations me upon the heights. He made my feet like the feet of a deer and set me secure on the heights. He makes my feet like the feet of a deer; he causes me to stand on the heights.
34 <V 17:35>It is he who trains my hands for battle. And you have set my arms like a bow of brass. He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze. He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
35 <V 17:36>And you have given me the protection of your salvation. And your right hand sustains me. And your discipline has corrected me unto the end. And your discipline itself will teach me. You have given me the shield of your salvation, and your right hand supported me, and your gentleness made me great. You make your saving help my shield, and your right hand sustains me; your help has made me great.
36 <V 17:37>You have expanded my footsteps under me, and my tracks have not been weakened. You gave a wide place for my steps under me, and my feet did not slip. You provide a broad path for my feet, so that my ankles do not give way.
37 <V 17:38>I will pursue my enemies and apprehend them. And I will not turn back until they have failed. I pursued my enemies and overtook them, and did not turn back till they were consumed. I pursued my enemies and overtook them; I did not turn back till they were destroyed.
38 <V 17:39>I will break them, and they will not be able to stand. They will fall under my feet. I thrust them through, so that they were not able to rise; they fell under my feet. I crushed them so that they could not rise; they fell beneath my feet.
39 <V 17:40>And you have wrapped me with virtue for the battle. And those rising up against me, you have subdued under me. For you equipped me with strength for the battle; you made those who rise against me sink under me. You armed me with strength for battle; you humbled my adversaries before me.
40 <V 17:41>And you have given the back of my enemies to me, and you have destroyed those who hated me. You made my enemies turn their backs to me, and those who hated me I destroyed. You made my enemies turn their backs in flight, and I destroyed my foes.
41 <V 17:42>They cried out, but there was none to save them, to the Lord, but he did not heed them. They cried for help, but there was none to save; they cried to the LORD, but he did not answer them. They cried for help, but there was no one to save them— to the LORD, but he did not answer.
42 <V 17:43>And I will crush them into dust before the face of the wind, so that I will obliterate them like the mud in the streets. I beat them fine as dust before the wind; I cast them out like the mire of the streets. I beat them as fine as windblown dust; I trampled them like mud in the streets.
43 <V 17:44>You will rescue me from the contradictions of the people. You will set me at the head of the Gentiles. You delivered me from strife with the people; you made me the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me. You have delivered me from the attacks of the people; you have made me the head of nations. People I did not know now serve me,
44 <V 17:45>A people I did not know has served me. As soon as their ears heard, they were obedient to me. As soon as they heard of me they obeyed me; foreigners came cringing to me. foreigners cower before me; as soon as they hear of me, they obey me.
45 <V 17:46>The sons of foreigners have been deceitful to me, the sons of foreigners have grown weak with time, and they have wavered from their paths. Foreigners lost heart and came trembling out of their fortresses. They all lose heart; they come trembling from their strongholds.
46 <V 17:47>The Lord lives, and blessed is my God, and may the God of my salvation be exalted: The LORD lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be the God of my salvation— The LORD lives! Praise be to my Rock! Exalted be God my Savior!
47 <V 17:48>O God, who vindicates me and who subdues the people under me, my liberator from my enraged enemies. the God who gave me vengeance and subdued peoples under me, He is the God who avenges me, who subdues nations under me,
48 <V 17:49>And you will exalt me above those who rise up against me. From the iniquitous man, you will rescue me. who rescued me from my enemies; yes, you exalted me above those who rose against me; you delivered me from the man of violence. who saves me from my enemies. You exalted me above my foes; from a violent man you rescued me.
49 <V 17:50>Because of this, O Lord, I will confess to you among the nations, and I will compose a psalm to your name: For this I will praise you, O LORD, among the nations, and sing to your name. Therefore I will praise you, LORD, among the nations; I will sing the praises of your name.
50 <V 17:51>magnifying the salvation of his king, and showing mercy to David, his Christ, and to his offspring, even for all time. Great salvation he brings to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his offspring forever. He gives his king great victories; he shows unfailing love to his anointed, to David and to his descendants forever.
Previous chapter
Top of Page
Top of Page