Psalms 18:1-29

I love you, LORD, my strength. The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer,  my God, my rock where I seek refuge, my shield  and the horn of my salvation,  my stronghold. I called to the LORD, who is worthy of praise,  and I was saved from my enemies.  The ropes of death were wrapped around me; the torrents of destruction terrified me.  The ropes of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.  I called to the LORD in my distress, and I cried to my God for help. From his temple he heard my voice,  and my cry to him reached his ears.  Then the earth shook and quaked; the foundations of the mountains trembled;  they shook because he burned with anger. Smoke rose from his nostrils, and consuming fire came from his mouth; coals were set ablaze by it.  , He bent the heavens and came down,  total darkness beneath his feet. He rode on a cherub and flew, soaring on the wings of the wind.  He made darkness his hiding place, dark storm clouds his canopy around him.  From the radiance of his presence,  his clouds swept onward with hail and blazing coals. The LORD thundered from   heaven; the Most High made his voice heard.  , He shot his arrows and scattered them; he hurled  lightning bolts and routed them.  The depths of the sea became visible, the foundations of the world were exposed, at your rebuke, LORD, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.  He reached down from on high and took hold of me; he pulled me out of deep water.  He rescued me from my powerful enemy and from those who hated me, for they were too strong for me.  They confronted me in the day of my calamity, but the LORD was my support.  He brought me out to a spacious place;  he rescued me because he delighted in me.  The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness;  he repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.  For I have kept the ways of the  LORD and have not turned from my God to wickedness.  Indeed, I let all his ordinances guide me  and have not disregarded his statutes.  I was blameless toward him  and kept myself from my iniquity. So the LORD repaid me according to my righteousness,  according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.  With the faithful you prove yourself faithful, with the blameless you prove yourself blameless, with the pure you prove yourself pure, but with the crooked you prove yourself shrewd.  For you rescue an oppressed people,  but you humble those with haughty eyes.  LORD, you light my lamp; my God illuminates my darkness.  With you I can attack a barricade,  and with my God I can leap over a wall.

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