Psalm 18:title–15

¹To the Overseer.—By a servant of Jehovah, by David, who hath spoken to Jehovah the words of this song in the day Jehovah delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul, and he saith:—I love Thee, O Jehovah, my strength.

²Jehovah is my rock, and my bulwark, And my deliverer, My God is my rock, I trust in Him: My shield, and a horn of my salvation, My high tower.

³The ‘Praised One’ I call Jehovah, And from my enemies I am saved.

⁴Compassed me have cords of death, And streams of the worthless make me afraid.

⁵Cords of Sheol have surrounded me, Before me have been snares of death.

⁶In mine adversity I call Jehovah, And unto my God I cry. He heareth from His temple my voice, And My cry before Him cometh into His ears.

⁷And shake and tremble doth the earth, And foundations of hills are troubled, And they shake—because He hath wrath.

⁸Gone up hath smoke by His nostrils, And fire from His mouth consumeth, Coals have been kindled by it.

⁹And He inclineth the heavens, and cometh down, And thick darkness is under His feet.

¹⁰And He rideth on a cherub, and doth fly, And He flieth on wings of wind.

¹¹He maketh darkness His secret place, Round about Him His tabernacle, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

¹²From the brightness over-against Him His thick clouds have passed on, Hail and coals of fire.

¹³And thunder in the heavens doth Jehovah, And the Most High giveth forth His voice, Hail and coals of fire.

¹⁴And He sendeth His arrows and scattereth them, And much lightning, and crusheth them.

¹⁵And seen are the streams of waters, And revealed are foundations of the earth. From Thy rebuke, O Jehovah, From the breath of the spirit of Thine anger.