Psalms 18:1-19

1I will love thee, O LORD, my strength. 2The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.1 3I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from my enemies. 4The sorrows of death surrounded me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.2 5The sorrows of hell surrounded me: the snares of death seized me.3 6In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears. 7Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was angry. 8There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.4 9He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet. 10And he rode upon a cherub, and flew: yea, he flew upon the wings of the wind. 11He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion around him was dark waters and thick clouds of the skies. 12At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire. 13The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire. 14Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and destroyed them. 15Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were uncovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils. 16He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.5 17He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them who hated me: for they were too strong for me. 18They came upon me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay. 19He brought me forth also in a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.