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18.3 :My God, my rock, in Him I take refuge;
 * My shield, and my horn of salvation, my high tower.
 * Praised, I cry, is the ,
 * And I am saved from mine enemies.


 * The cords of Death compassed me,
 * And the floods of Belial assailed me.
 * The cords of Sheol surrounded me;
 * The snares of Death confronted me.
 * In my distress I called upon the ,
 * And cried unto my God;
 * Out of His temple He heard my voice,
 * And my cry came before Him unto His ears.


 * Then the earth did shake and quake,
 * The foundations also of the mountains did tremble;
 * They were shaken, because He was wroth.
 * Smoke arose up in His nostrils,
 * And fire out of His mouth did devour;
 * Coals flamed forth from Him.
 * He bowed the heavens also, and came down;
 * And thick darkness was under His feet.
 * And He rode upon a cherub, and did fly;
 * Yea, He did swoop down upon the wings of the wind.
 * He made darkness His hiding-place, His pavilion round about Him;
 * Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
 * At the brightness before Him, there passed through His thick clouds
 * Hailstones and coals of fire.
 * The also thundered in the heavens,
 * And the Most High gave forth His voice;
 * Hailstones and coals of fire.
 * And He sent out His arrows, and scattered them;
 * And He shot forth lightnings, and discomfited them.
 * And the channels of waters appeared,
 * And the foundations of the world were laid bare,
 * At Thy rebuke, O ,
 * At the blast of the breath of Thy nostrils.


 * He sent from on high, He took me;
 * He drew me out of many waters.
 * He delivered me from mine enemy
 * most strong,
 * And from them that hated me, for they were too mighty for me.
 * They confronted me in the day of my calamity;
 * But the was a stay unto me.
 * He brought me forth also into a large place;
 * He delivered me, because He delighted in me.
 * The rewarded me according to my righteousness;
 * According to the cleanness of my hands hath He recompensed me.
 * For I have kept the ways of the ,
 * And have not wickedly departed from my God.
 * For all His ordinances were before me,
 * And I put not away His statutes from me.
 * And I was single-hearted with Him,
 * And I kept myself from mine iniquity.
 * Therefore hath the recompensed me according to my righteousness,
 * According to the cleanness of my hands in His eyes.