Psalms 18:1-13 ▼

1 TO THE OVERSEER. BY A SERVANT OF YHWH, BY DAVID, WHO HAS SPOKEN TO YHWH THE WORDS OF THIS SONG IN THE DAY YHWH DELIVERED HIM FROM THE HAND OF ALL HIS ENEMIES, AND FROM THE HAND OF SAUL, AND HE SAYS: I love You, O YHWH, my strength.

2 YHWH [is] my rock, and my bulwark, || And my deliverer, || My God [is] my rock, || I trust in Him: My shield, and the horn of my salvation, || My high tower.

3 I call on YHWH, the Praised One, || And I am saved from my enemies.

4 Cords of death have surrounded me, || And streams of the worthless make me afraid.

5 Cords of Sheol have surrounded me, || Snares of death have been before me.

6 In my adversity I call YHWH, || And I cry to my God. He hears my voice from His temple, || And My cry comes into His ears before Him.

7 And the earth shakes and trembles, || And foundations of hills are troubled, || And they shake—because He has wrath.

8 Smoke has gone up from His nostrils, || And fire from His mouth consumes, || Coals have been kindled by it.

9 And He inclines the heavens, and comes down, || And thick darkness [is] under His feet.

10 And He rides on a cherub, and flies, || And He flies on wings of wind.

11 He makes darkness His secret place, || Around Him His dwelling place, || Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

12 From the brightness before Him His thick clouds have passed on, || Hail and coals of fire.

13 And YHWH thunders in the heavens, || And the Most High gives forth His voice, || Hail and coals of fire.