Psalms 18
1 [For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of the LORD, who spoke to the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said, ] I love you, LORD, my strength.
to/for to conduct to/for servant/slave LORD to/for David which to speak: speak to/for LORD [obj] word [the] song [the] this in/on/with day to rescue LORD [obj] him from palm all enemy his and from hand: power Saul and to say to have compassion you LORD strength my
2 The LORD is my Rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my Rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
LORD crag my and fortress my and to escape me God my rock my to seek refuge in/on/with him shield my and horn salvation my high refuge my
3 I call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies.
to boast: praise to call: call to LORD and from enemy my to save
4 The waves of death surrounded me, and the currents of ungodliness overwhelmed me.
to surround me cord death and torrent: river Belial: destruction to terrify me
cord hell: Sheol to turn: surround me to meet me snare death (Sheol h7585)
6 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried out to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry before him came into his ears.
in/on/with distress to/for me to call: call to LORD and to(wards) God my to cry to hear: hear from temple his voice my and cry my to/for face: before his to come (in): come in/on/with ear his
7 Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.
and to shake and to shake [the] land: country/planet and foundation mountain: mount to tremble and to shake for to be incensed to/for him
8 Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.
to ascend: rise smoke in/on/with face: nose his and fire from lip his to eat coal to burn: burn from him
9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.
and to stretch heaven and to go down and cloud underneath: under foot his
10 He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.
and to ride upon cherub and to fly and to fly upon wing spirit: breath
11 He made darkness his hiding place, his canopy around him thick clouds dark with water.
to set: make darkness secrecy his around him booth his dark water cloud cloud
12 From the brightness before him his thick clouds passed on, with hailstones and coals of fire.
from brightness before him cloud his to pass hail and coal fire
13 The LORD also thundered in the sky. The Most High uttered his voice.
and to thunder in/on/with heaven LORD and Most High to give: cry out voice his hail and coal fire
14 And he sent out arrows and scattered them, and he shot lightning bolts and routed them.
and to send: depart arrow his and to scatter them and lightning to multiply ten thousand and to confuse them
15 And the depths of the sea appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, LORD, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
and to see: see channel water and to reveal: uncover foundation world from rebuke your LORD from breath spirit: breath face: nose your
16 He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.
to send: depart from height to take: take me to draw me from water many
17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
to rescue me from enemy my strong and from to hate me for to strengthen from me
18 They came on me in the day of my calamity, but the LORD was my support.
to meet me in/on/with day calamity my and to be LORD to/for support to/for me
19 He brought me forth also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
and to come out: send me to/for broad to rescue me for to delight in in/on/with me
20 The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
to wean me LORD like/as righteousness my like/as cleanness hand my to return: pay to/for me
21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
for to keep: obey way: conduct LORD and not be wicked from God my
22 For all his ordinances were before me. I did not put away his statutes from me.
for all justice: judgement his to/for before me and statute his not to turn aside: remove from me
23 I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.
and to be unblemished: blameless with him and to keep: guard from iniquity: crime my
24 Therefore the LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
and to return: pay LORD to/for me like/as righteousness my like/as cleanness hand my to/for before eye: seeing his
25 With the faithful you show yourself faithful. With the innocent you show yourself innocent.
with pious be kind with great man unblemished: blameless to finish
26 With the pure you show yourself pure. And with the crooked you show yourself tortuous.
with to purify to purify and with twisted to twist
27 For you will save a humble people, but the eyes of the proud you will bring low.
for you(m. s.) people afflicted to save and eye to exalt to abase
28 For you light my lamp. The LORD my God lights up my darkness.
for you(m. s.) to light lamp my LORD God my to shine darkness my
29 For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall.
for in/on/with you to run: run band and in/on/with God my to leap wall
30 As for God, his way is perfect. The word of the LORD is pure. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
[the] God unblemished way: conduct his word LORD to refine shield he/she/it to/for all [the] to seek refuge in/on/with him
31 For who is God, except the LORD? Who is a rock, besides our God,
for who? god from beside LORD and who? rock exception God our
32 the God who girds me with strength, and makes my way blameless?
[the] God [the] to gird me strength and to give: make unblemished: blameless way: conduct my
33 He makes my feet like deer's feet, and sets me on my high places.
to set foot my like/as doe and upon high place my to stand: stand me
34 He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.
to learn: teach hand my to/for battle and to descend bow bronze arm my
35 You have also given me the shield of your salvation, and your right hand holds me up, and your help has made me great.
and to give: give to/for me shield salvation your and right your to support me and gentleness your to multiply me
36 You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.
to enlarge step my underneath: under me and not to slip ankle my
37 I pursued my enemies and overtook them, and I did not turn back until they were destroyed.
to pursue enemy my and to overtake them and not to return: return till to end: destroy them
38 I struck them through, so that they did not rise. They fell beneath my feet.
to wound them and not be able to arise: rise to fall: fall underneath: under foot my
39 For you have equipped me with strength for the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
and to gird me strength to/for battle to bow to arise: rise me underneath: under me
40 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.
and enemy my to give: put to/for me neck and to hate me to destroy them
41 They cried, but there was none to save; even to the LORD, but he did not answer them.
to cry and nothing to save upon LORD and not to answer them
42 Then I ground them as fine as the dust on the surface of a path. Like the mud in the streets, I trampled them.
and to beat them like/as dust upon face: before spirit: breath like/as mud outside to empty them
43 You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me;
to escape me from strife people to set: make me to/for head: leader nation people not to know to serve: minister me
44 as soon as they hear of me they obey me. Foreigners come cringing to me;
to/for report ear: hearing to hear: obey to/for me son: type of foreign to deceive to/for me
45 they are not bound in chains.
son: type of foreign to wither and to quake from perimeter their
46 The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my salvation,
alive LORD and to bless rock my and to exalt God salvation my
47 even the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues peoples under me.
[the] God [the] to give: give vengeance to/for me and to speak: subdue people underneath: under me
48 He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.
to escape me from enemy my also from to arise: rise me to exalt me from man violence to rescue me
49 Therefore I will praise you, LORD, among the nations, and will sing praises to your name.
upon so to give thanks you in/on/with nation LORD and to/for name your to sing
50 He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his descendants, until forever.
(to magnify *Q(k)*) salvation king his and to make: do kindness to/for anointed his to/for David and to/for seed: children his till forever: enduring
