### World English Bible

Psalms 17

## The Book of Psalms

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| # Chapter 18
#### 1 | I love you, Yahweh, my strength.
#### 2 | Yahweh 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.
#### 3 | I will call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised; So shall I be saved from my enemies.
#### 4 | The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
#### 5 | The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came on me.
#### 6 | In my distress I called on Yahweh, And cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple, My cry before him came into his ears.
#### 7 | Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken, Because he was angry.
#### 8 | There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, Fire out of his mouth devoured; Coals were kindled by it.
#### 9 | He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.
#### 10 | He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.
#### 11 | He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion around him, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
#### 12 | At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, Hailstones and coals of fire.
#### 13 | Yahweh also thundered in the sky, The Most High uttered his voice, Hailstones and coals of fire.
#### 14 | He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, lightnings manifold, and routed them.
#### 15 | Then the channels of waters appeared, The foundations of the world were laid bare, At your rebuke, Yahweh, At the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
#### 16 | He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.
#### 17 | He delivered me from my strong enemy, From those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
#### 18 | They came on me in the day of my calamity, But Yahweh was my support.
#### 19 | He brought me forth also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
#### 20 | Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
#### 21 | For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, And have not wickedly departed from my God.
#### 22 | For all his ordinances were before me. I didn't put away his statutes from me.
#### 23 | I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.
#### 24 | Therefore has Yahweh recompensed me according to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
#### 25 | With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.
#### 26 | With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
#### 27 | For you will save the afflicted people, But the haughty eyes you will bring down.
#### 28 | For you will light my lamp. Yahweh, my God, will light up my darkness.
#### 29 | For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall.
#### 30 | As for God, his way is perfect. The word of Yahweh is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
#### 31 | For who is God, except Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God,
#### 32 | The God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?
#### 33 | He makes my feet like hinds' feet, And sets me on my high places.
#### 34 | He teaches my hands to war; So that my arms bend a bow of bronze.
#### 35 | You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.
#### 36 | You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.
#### 37 | I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. Neither will I turn again until they are consumed.
#### 38 | I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet.
#### 39 | For you have girded me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
#### 40 | You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, That I might cut off those who hate me.
#### 41 | They cried, but there was none to save; Even to Yahweh, but he didn't answer them.
#### 42 | Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets.
#### 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.
#### 44 | As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.
#### 45 | The foreigners shall fade away, And shall come trembling out of their close places.
#### 46 | Yahweh lives; and blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my salvation,
#### 47 | Even the God who executes vengeance for me, And subdues peoples 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.
#### 49 | Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations, And will sing praises to your name.
#### 50 | He gives great deliverance to his king, And shows lovingkindness to his anointed, To David and to his seed, forevermore. Psalm 19 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

Psalms 19

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