Psalms 18:6-50 In my straits I will call upon Jehovah, and to my God will I cry: he will hear my voice from his temple, and my cry will come before him into his ears.

JuliaSmith⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁶ In my straits I will call upon Jehovah, and to my God will I cry: he will hear my voice from his temple, and my cry will come before him into his ears. ⁷ And it will be moved and the earth will tremble, and the foundations of the mountains will be moved and they will shake, for it was kindled to him. ⁸ A smoke went up in his anger, and fire from his mouth will consume, and coals were kindled from it. ⁹ And he will incline the heavens and come down: and gloom under his feet ¹⁰ And he will ride upon a cherub, and will fly: and he will fly upon the wings of the wind. ¹¹ He will set darkness his covering; his tent round about him darknesses of waters, thick clouds. ¹² From the brightness before him the clouds passed over, hail and coals of fire. ¹³ And Jehovah will thunder in the heavens, and the Most High will give his voice; hail and coals of fire. ¹⁴ And he will send his arrows and scatter them; and he increased lightnings, and he will discomfit them. ¹⁵ And the channels of waters will be seen, and the foundations of the habitable globe will be uncovered from thy rebuke, O Jehovah, from the breathing of the spirit of thine anger. ¹⁶ He will send forth from on high, he will take me, he will draw me out of many waters. ¹⁷ He will deliver me from my strong enemy, and from them hating me: for they were strong above me. ¹⁸ They will anticipate me in the day of my calamity, and Jehovah will be a support to me. ¹⁹ And he will bring me forth to a wide place: he will deliver me, for he delighted in me. ²⁰ Jehovah will recompense me according to my justice, according to the cleanness of my hands he will turn back to me. ²¹ For I watched the ways of Jehovah, and I acted not wickedly from my God. ²² For all his judgments are before me, and his laws I shall not put away from me. ²³ And I blameless with him, and I will watch myself from mine iniquity. ²⁴ And Jehovah will turn back to me according to my justice, and according to the cleanness of my hands before his eyes. ²⁵ With the kind thou wilt show thyself kind; and with the blameless man thou wilt be perfect ²⁶ With the purified thou wilt be purified, and with the perverse thou wilt show thyself perverse ²⁷ Thou wilt save the humble people, and thou wilt humble the eyes of the lifted up. ²⁸ For thou wilt enlighten my lamp Jehovah my God will give light to my darkness. ²⁹ For by thee I will break down a troop, and in my God I will leap upon the wall. ³⁰ God, blameless his way: the saying of Jehovah being refined: a shield to all trusting in him. ³¹ For who is God besides Jehovah? or who a rock except our God? ³² God girding me with strength, and he will give my way blameless. ³³ Setting my feet as the hinds, and he will cause me to stand upon my heights. ³⁴ Teaching my hands to war, and a bow of brass was bent by mine arms. ³⁵ Thou wilt give to me the shield of thy salvation, and thy right hand will uphold me, and thy clemency will enlarge me. ³⁶ Thou wilt make broad my steps under me and my joints did not waver. ³⁷ I will pursue mine enemies, and I will overtake them: and I shall not turn back till consuming them. ³⁸ I will smite them through and through, and they shall not be able to rise: they shall fall under my feet. ³⁹ Thou wilt gird one with strength for war: thou wilt bend under me those rising up against me. ⁴⁰ Mine enemies thou gavest the back of the neck to me, and I shall destroy those hating me. ⁴¹ They will cry and none saving: to Jehovah, and he answered them not ⁴² And I will beat them in pieces as dust upon the face of the wind: I will pour them out as the mire of the streets. ⁴³ Thou wilt deliver me from the contentions of the people; thou wilt set me for head of the nations: a people I knew not shall serve me. ⁴⁴ At the hearing of the ear they shall hear to me: sons of the stranger shall feign to me. ⁴⁵ Sons of the stranger shall fall away, and they shall tremble from their enclosings. ⁴⁶ Jehovah lives; and and praised be my Rock; and the God of my salvation shall be exalted. ⁴⁷ God giving vengeance to me, and he will speak the peoples under me. ⁴⁸ Delivering me from mine enemies: from those rising up thou wilt lift me up: thou wilt deliver me from the man of violence ⁴⁹ For this I will praise thee among the nations, O Jehovah, and I will play on the harp to thy name. ⁵⁰ Magnifying the salvation of his king; and he did mercy to his anointed, and to David and to his seed even to forever.