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Psalm 18:3

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18:3I called10 to the Lord, who is worthy of praise,11

and I was delivered from my enemies.

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Footnotes

  1. 10 In this song of thanksgiving, where the psalmist recalls how the Lord delivered him, the prefixed verbal form is best understood as a preterite indicating past tense, not an imperfect.
  2. 11 Heb “worthy of praise, I cried out [to] the Lord.” Some take מְהֻלָּל (méhullal, “worthy of praise”) with what precedes and translate, “the praiseworthy one,” or “praiseworthy.” However, the various epithets in vv. 1–2 have the first person pronominal suffix, unlike מְהֻלָּל. If one follows the traditional verse division and takes מְהֻלָּל with what follows, it is best understood as substantival and as appositional to יְהוָה (yéhvah): “[to the] praiseworthy one I cried out, [to the] Lord.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

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

and I am saved from my enemies.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

I called to the Lord, who is worthy of praise,

and I have been saved from my enemies.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

I called to the Lord, who is worthy of praise,

and I was saved from my enemies.

NLTNew Living Translation

I called on the Lord, who is worthy of praise,

and he saved me from my enemies.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

I called upon Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised,

and I was saved from my enemies.

KJV 1900King James Version

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

So shall I be saved from mine enemies.