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18.3
PSALMS
- My God, my rock, in Him I take refuge;
- My shield, and my horn of salvation, my high tower.
- 4Praised, I cry, is the Lord,
- And I am saved from mine enemies.
- 5The cords of Death compassed me,
- And the floods of [1]Belial assailed me.
- 6The cords of [1]Sheol surrounded me;
- The snares of Death confronted me.
- 7In my distress I called upon the Lord,
- And cried unto my God;
- Out of His temple He heard my voice,
- And my cry came before Him unto His ears.
- 8Then the earth did shake and quake,
- The foundations also of the mountains did tremble;
- They were shaken, because He was wroth.
- 9Smoke arose up in His nostrils,
- And fire out of His mouth did devour;
- Coals flamed forth from Him.
- 10He bowed the heavens also, and came down;
- And thick darkness was under His feet.
- 11And He rode upon a cherub, and did fly;
- Yea, He did swoop down upon the wings of the wind.
- 12He made darkness His hiding-place, His pavilion round about Him;
- Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
- 13At the brightness before Him, there passed through His thick clouds
- Hailstones and coals of fire.
- 14The Lord also thundered in the heavens,
- And the Most High gave forth His voice;
- Hailstones and coals of fire.
- 15And He sent out His arrows, and scattered them;
- And He shot forth lightnings, and discomfited them.
- 16And the channels of waters appeared,
- And the foundations of the world were laid bare,
- At Thy rebuke, O Lord,
- At the blast of the breath of Thy nostrils.
- 17He sent from on high, He took me;
- He drew me out of many waters.
- 18He delivered me from mine enemy
- most strong,
- And from them that hated me, for they were too mighty for me.
- 19They confronted me in the day of my calamity;
- But the Lord was a stay unto me.
- 20He brought me forth also into a large place;
- He delivered me, because He delighted in me.
- 21The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness;
- According to the cleanness of my hands hath He recompensed me.
- 22For I have kept the ways of the Lord,
- And have not wickedly departed from my God.
- 23For all His ordinances were before me,
- And I put not away His statutes from me.
- 24And I was single-hearted with Him,
- And I kept myself from mine iniquity.
- 25Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousness,
- According to the cleanness of my hands in His eyes.
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