Salmo 18

¹ I will love thee, O Jehovah, my strength. ² Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my *God, my rock, in whom I will trust; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower. ³ I will call upon Jehovah, who is to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies. ⁴ The bands of death encompassed me, and torrents of Belial made me afraid. ⁵ The bands of Sheol surrounded me, the cords of death encountered me. ⁶ In my distress I called upon Jehovah, and I cried out to my God; he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, into his ears. ⁷ Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains trembled and shook, because he was wroth. ⁸ There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals burned forth from it. ⁹ And he bowed the heavens, and came down; and darkness was under his feet. ¹⁰ And he rode upon a cherub and did fly; yea, he flew fast upon the wings of the wind. ¹¹ He made darkness his secret place, his tent round about him: darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies. ¹² From the brightness before him his thick clouds passed forth: hail and coals of fire. ¹³ And Jehovah thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice: hail and coals of fire. ¹⁴ And he sent his arrows, and scattered mine enemies ; and he shot forth lightnings, and discomfited them. ¹⁵ And the beds of the waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were uncovered at thy rebuke, Jehovah, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils. ¹⁶ He reached forth from above, he took me, he drew me out of great waters: ¹⁷ He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me; for they were mightier than I. ¹⁸ They encountered me in the day of my calamity, but Jehovah was my stay. ¹⁹ And he brought me forth into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

²⁰ Jehovah hath rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. ²¹ For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, and have not wickedly departed from my God. ²² For all his ordinances were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me; ²³ And I was upright with him, and kept myself from mine iniquity. ²⁴ And Jehovah hath recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight. ²⁵ With the gracious thou dost shew thyself gracious; with the upright man thou dost shew thyself upright; ²⁶ With the pure thou dost shew thyself pure; and with the perverse thou dost shew thyself contrary. ²⁷ For it is thou that savest the afflicted people; but the haughty eyes wilt thou bring down. ²⁸ For it is thou that makest my lamp to shine: Jehovah my God enlighteneth my darkness.

²⁹ For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall. ³⁰ As for *God, his way is perfect; the word of Jehovah is tried: he is a shield to all that trust in him. ³¹ For who is +God save Jehovah? and who is a rock if not our God? ³² The *God who girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect, ³³ Who maketh my feet like hinds' feet , and setteth me upon my high places; ³⁴ Who teacheth my hands to war, and mine arms bend a bow of brass; ³⁵ And thou didst give me the shield of thy salvation, and thy right hand held me up; and thy condescending gentleness hath made me great. ³⁶ Thou didst enlarge my steps under me, and mine ankles have not wavered. ³⁷ I pursued mine enemies, and overtook them; and I turned not again till they were consumed. ³⁸ I crushed them, and they were not able to rise: they fell under my feet. ³⁹ And thou girdedst me with strength to battle; thou didst subdue under me those that rose up against me. ⁴⁰ And mine enemies didst thou make to turn their backs unto me, and those that hated me I destroyed. ⁴¹ They cried, and there was none to save; --unto Jehovah, and he answered them not. ⁴² And I did beat them small as dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the mire of the streets. ⁴³ Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; thou hast made me the head of the nations: a people I knew not doth serve me. ⁴⁴ At the hearing of the ear, they obey me: strangers come cringing unto me. ⁴⁵ Strangers have faded away, and they come trembling forth from their close places. ⁴⁶ Jehovah liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of my salvation, ⁴⁷ The *God who hath avenged me, and hath subjected the peoples to me; ⁴⁸ Who hath delivered me from mine enemies: yea, thou hast lifted me up above them that rose up against me; from the man of violence hast thou delivered me. ⁴⁹ Therefore will I give thanks to thee, Jehovah, among the nations, and will sing psalms to thy name. ⁵⁰  It is he who giveth great deliverances to his king, and sheweth loving-kindness to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.