詩篇 第 18 章

For the end. Of David, the servant of the Lord, the words of this ode which he spoke to the Lord on the day the Lord delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies and out of the hand of Saul.

And he said: I will love you, O Lord, my strength.

The Lord is my firm support and my refuge and my deliverer; my God is my helper, and I will hope in him; he is my protector and the horn of my salvation, my supporter.

Praising, I will call upon the Lord, and I shall be saved from my enemies.

The pangs of death surrounded me, and torrents of lawlessness troubled me.

The pangs of Hades encircled me; the snares of death came upon me.

And in my affliction I called upon the Lord, and I cried to my God; he heard my voice from his holy temple, and my cry before him will enter into his ears.

And the earth was shaken and became trembling, and the foundations of the mountains were troubled and were shaken, because God was angry with them.

Smoke went up in his anger, and fire from his face blazed out; coals were kindled from him.

And he bowed the heavens and came down, and thick gloom was under his feet.

And he mounted upon cheroubin and flew; he flew upon the wings of winds.

And he made darkness his hiding place; round about him his tent was dark water in clouds of the air.

Because of the brightness before him the clouds passed through—hail and coals of fire.

And the Lord thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered his voice.

And he sent out arrows and scattered them, and he multiplied lightnings and threw them into confusion.

And the springs of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were uncovered, at your rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of your wrath.

He sent from on high and took me; he received me out of many waters.

He will deliver me from my mighty enemies and from those who hate me, because they were stronger than I.

They came upon me in the day of my affliction, but the Lord became my support.

And he brought me out into a broad place; he will rescue me, because he delighted in me. He will deliver me from my mighty enemies and from those who hate me.

And the Lord will reward me according to my righteousness, and according to the cleanness of my hands he will reward me.

Because I kept the ways of the Lord, and I did not act impiously against my God.

For all his judgments are before me, and his statutes I did not put away from me.

And I shall be blameless with him, and I will keep myself from my lawlessness.

And the Lord will reward me according to my righteousness and according to the cleanness of my hands before his eyes.

With the devout you will be devout, and with the innocent man you will be innocent.

And with the chosen you will be chosen, and with the crooked you will deal crookedly.

For you will save a lowly people, and you will humble the eyes of the proud.

For you, O Lord, will light my lamp; my God, you will lighten my darkness.

For by you I shall be rescued from a trial, and by my God I shall leap over a wall.

As for my God, his way is blameless; the words of the Lord are tried in fire; he is a protector of all who hope in him.

For who is God except the Lord? And who is God except our God?

It is God who girds me with power and made my way blameless,

who makes my feet like a deer's and sets me upon the heights,

who teaches my hands for war; and you made my arms a bronze bow.

And you gave me the shield of my salvation, and your right hand supported me, and your discipline set me upright completely, and your discipline itself will teach me.

You widened my steps under me, and my footprints did not grow weak.

I will pursue my enemies and overtake them, and I will not turn back until they are consumed.

I will crush them, and they shall not be able to stand; they shall fall under my feet.

And you girded me with power for war; you fettered under me all those who rose up against me.

And you gave me the backs of my enemies, and you utterly destroyed those who hate me.

They cried out, but there was none to save; they cried to the Lord, but he did not listen to them.

And I will grind them fine like dust before the wind; like the mud of the streets I will smooth them out.

You will deliver me from the contentions of the people; you will appoint me head of nations; a people whom I did not know served me.

At the hearing of the ear he obeyed me; alien sons lied to me.

Alien sons grew old and went limping out of their paths.

The Lord lives! And blessed be my God! And let the God of my salvation be exalted—

the God who grants me acts of vengeance and subdued peoples under me,

my deliverer from my angry enemies; from those who rise up against me you will exalt me; from an unjust man you will rescue me.

Therefore I will acknowledge you among the nations, O Lord, and I will sing praise to your name—

he who magnifies the deliverances of his king and shows mercy to his anointed, to David and to his seed forever.