Psalm 18:1–15

¹I love thee, O Jehovah, my strength.

²Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;

My God, my rock, in whom I will take refuge;

My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

³I will call upon Jehovah, who is worthy to be praised:

So shall I be saved from mine enemies.

⁴The cords of death compassed me,

And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

⁵The cords of Sheol were round about me;

The snares of death came upon me.

⁶In my distress I called upon Jehovah,

And cried unto my God:

He heard my voice out of his temple,

And my cry before him came into his ears.

⁷Then the earth shook and trembled;

The foundations also of the mountains quaked

And were shaken, because he was wroth.

⁸There went up a smoke out of his nostrils,

And fire out of his mouth devoured:

Coals were kindled by it.

⁹He bowed the heavens also, and came down;

And thick darkness was under his feet.

¹⁰And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly;

Yea, he soared upon the wings of the wind.

¹¹He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion round about him,

Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

¹²At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed,

Hailstones and coals of fire.

¹³Jehovah also thundered in the heavens,

And the Most High uttered his voice,

Hailstones and coals of fire.

¹⁴And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them;

Yea, lightnings manifold, and discomfited them.

¹⁵Then the channels of waters appeared,

And the foundations of the world were laid bare,

At thy rebuke, O Jehovah,

At the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.