Psalm 18:title–15

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, ^athe servant of the Lord, who spake unto the Lord the words of ^bthis song in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said,

^bbI will love thee, O Lord, my strength.

²The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;

My God, my strength, ^cin whom I will trust;

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

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

So shall I be saved from mine enemies.

⁴The sorrows of death compassed me,

And the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

⁵The sorrows of hell compassed me about:

The snares of death ^dprevented me.

^6ddIn my distress I called upon the Lord,

And cried unto my God:

He heard my voice out of his temple,

And my cry came before him, even into his ears.

⁷Then the earth shook and trembled;

The foundations also ^eof the hills moved

And were shaken, because he was wroth.

⁸There went up a smoke out of his nostrils,

And ^ffire out of his mouth devoured:

Coals were kindled by it.

⁹He bowed the heavens also, and came down:

And darkness was under his feet.

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

Yea, he did ^gfly upon the wings of the wind.

¹¹He made darkness his secret place;

His pavilion round about him

Were ^hdark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

¹²At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed,

ⁱHail-stones and coals of fire.

¹³The Lord also thundered in the heavens,

And the Highest gave his voice;

ⁱHail-stones and coals of fire.

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

And he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.

¹⁵Then ^jthe channels of waters were seen,

And the foundations of the world were discovered

At thy rebuke, O Lord,

At the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.