1 Vir die musiekleier. 'n Psalm van Dawid, die kneg van die HERE, wat die woorde van hierdie lied tot die HERE gespreek het op die dag toe die HERE hom gered het uit die hand van al sy vyande en uit die hand van Saul.
2 En hy het gesê: Ek het U hartlik lief, HERE, my sterkte.
3 Die HERE is my rots en my bergvesting en my redder; my God, my rots by wie ek skuil; my skild en die horing van my heil, my rotsvesting.
4 Ek roep die HERE aan wat lofwaardig is, en van my vyande word ek verlos.
5 Bande van die dood het my omring, en strome van onheil het my oorval.
6 Bande van die doderyk was rondom my; strikke van die dood het my teëgekom.
7 Toe ek benoud was, het ek die HERE aangeroep, en ek het tot my God geroep om hulp; Hy het my stem uit sy paleis gehoor, en my hulpgeroep voor sy aangesig het in sy ore gekom.
8 Toe het die aarde geskud en gebewe; die fondamente van die berge het gesidder en geskud, omdat Hy toornig was.
9 Rook in sy neus het opgegaan, en 'n vuur uit sy mond het verteer; kole uit Hom het gebrand.
10 En Hy het die hemel gebuig en neergedaal, en donkerheid was onder sy voete.
11 En Hy het op 'n g,rub gery en gevlieg; ja, Hy het gesweef op die vleuels van die wind.
12 Duisternis het Hy sy skuilplek gemaak, sy hut rondom Hom: duisternis van waters, diktes van wolke.
13 Deur die glans voor Hom het sy wolke verbygetrek, hael en gloeiende kole.
14 En die HERE het in die hemel gedonder, en die Allerhoogste het sy stem laat hoor; hael en gloeiende kole.
15 En Hy het sy pyle uitgestuur en hulle verstrooi; ja, sy bliksems in menigte, en Hy het hulle verwar.
16 En die beddings van die waters het sigbaar geword, en die fondamente van die wêreld is blootgelê vanweë u dreiging, o HERE, vanweë die geblaas van die wind van u neus.
17 Hy het uit die hoogte sy hand uitgestrek, Hy het my gegryp, Hy het my uit groot waters getrek.
18 Hy het my verlos van my magtige vyand en van my haters, omdat hulle te sterk was vir my.
19 Hulle het my oorval op die dag van my nood; maar die HERE was my steun.
20 En Hy het my uitgelei in die ruimte; Hy het my gered, omdat Hy behae in my gehad het.
21 Die HERE het met my gehandel na my geregtigheid; Hy het my vergelde na die reinheid van my hande.
22 Want ek het die weë van die HERE gehou en nie goddeloos van my God afgewyk nie;
23 want al sy verordeninge was voor my, en sy insettinge het ek nie van my verwyder nie.
24 Maar ek was opreg by Hom, en ek was op my hoede vir my ongeregtigheid.
25 So het die HERE my dan vergelde na my geregtigheid, na die reinheid van my hande, voor sy oë.
26 By die liefderyke betoon U Uself liefderyk, by die opregte man opreg,
27 by die reine rein; maar by die valse betoon U Uself verkeerd.
28 Want U verlos die verdrukte volk; maar U verneder die oë wat hoog is.
29 Want U laat my lamp skyn; die HERE my God laat my duisternis opklaar.
30 Want met U loop ek 'n bende storm, en met my God spring ek oor 'n muur.
31 Die weg van God is volmaak; die woord van die HERE is gelouter; Hy is 'n skild vir almal wat by Hom skuil.
32 Want wie is God buiten die HERE, en wie is 'n rots behalwe onse God?
33 God is dit wat my met krag omgord en my weg volkome maak.
34 Hy maak my voete soos die van herte en laat my staan op my hoogtes.
35 Hy leer my hande om oorlog te voer, sodat my arms 'n koperboog span.
36 Ook het U my die skild van u uitredding gegee, en u regterhand het my ondersteun, en u neerbuigende goedheid het my groot gemaak.
37 U het my voetstap ruim gemaak onder my, en my enkels het nie gewankel nie.
38 Ek het my vyande agtervolg en hulle ingehaal, en ek het nie teruggekom voordat ek hulle vernietig het nie.
39 Ek het hulle verbrysel, sodat hulle nie kon opstaan nie; hulle het geval onder my voete.
40 En U het my met krag omgord vir die stryd; U het my teëstanders onder my laat buk.
41 En U het my vyande vir my laat vlug; en my haters, die het ek vernietig.
42 Hulle het geroep om hulp, maar daar was geen verlosser nie -- tot die HERE, maar Hy het hulle nie geantwoord nie.
43 Toe het ek hulle vermaal soos stof voor die wind; ek het hulle uitgegooi soos modder van die strate.
44 U het my gered uit die getwis van die volk; U het my 'n hoof gemaak van nasies; 'n volk wat ek nie geken het nie, het my gedien.
45 Sodra hulle van my gehoor het, was hulle my gehoorsaam, uitlanders het kruipende na my gekom.
46 Uitlanders word kragteloos en kom met siddering uit hulle vestings.
47 Die HERE leef! En geloofd sy my rots, en laat verhoog wees die God van my heil!
48 Die God wat my die wraak gee en volke aan my onderwerp;
49 wat my red van my vyande; ja, U verhef my bo my teëstanders; U bevry my van die man van geweld.
50 Daarom wil ek U loof, o HERE, onder die nasies, en tot eer van u Naam wil ek psalmsing. [ (Psalms 18:51) Hy wat die verlossinge van sy koning groot maak en goedertierenheid bewys aan sy gesalfde, aan Dawid en aan sy nageslag tot in ewigheid. ]
1 To the chief music-maker. Of the servant of the Lord, of David, who said the words of this song to the Lord on the day when the Lord made him free from the hand of all his haters, and from the hand of Saul; and he said,
2 \18:1\I will give you my love, O Lord, my strength.
3 \18:2\The Lord is my Rock, my walled town, and my saviour; my God, my Rock, in him will I put my faith; my breastplate, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
4 \18:3\I will send up my cry to the Lord, who is to be praised; so will I be made safe from those who are against me.
5 \18:4\The cords of death were round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear.
6 \18:5\The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.
7 \18:6\In my trouble my voice went up to the Lord, and my cry to my God: my voice came to his hearing in his holy Temple, and my prayer came before him, even into his ears.
8 \18:7\Then trouble and shock came on the earth; and the bases of the mountains were moved and shaking, because he was angry.
9 \18:8\There went up a smoke from his nose, and a fire of destruction from his mouth: flames were lighted by it.
10 \18:9\The heavens were bent, so that he might come down; and it was dark under his feet.
11 \18:10\And he went in flight through the air, seated on a storm-cloud: going quickly on the wings of the wind.
12 \18:11\He made the dark his secret place; his tent round him was the dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
13 \18:12\Before his shining light his dark clouds went past, raining ice and fire.
14 \18:13\The Lord made thunder in the heavens, and the voice of the Highest was sounding out: a rain of ice and fire.
15 \18:14\He sent out his arrows, driving them in all directions; by his flames of fire they were troubled.
16 \18:15\Then the deep beds of the waters were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of your words of wrath, O Lord, because of the breath from your mouth.
17 \18:16\He sent from on high, he took me, pulling me out of great waters.
18 \18:17\He made me free from my strong hater, and from those who were against me, because they were stronger than I.
19 \18:18\They came on me in the day of my trouble; but the Lord was my support.
20 \18:19\He took me out into a wide place; he was my saviour because he had delight in me.
21 \18:20\The Lord gives me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean before him.
22 \18:21\For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God.
23 \18:22\For all his decisions were before me, and I did not put away his laws from me.
24 \18:23\And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.
25 \18:24\Because of this the Lord has given me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean in his eyes.
26 \18:25\On him who has mercy you will have mercy; to the upright you will be upright;
27 \18:26\He who is holy will see that you are holy; but to the man whose way is not straight you will be a hard judge.
28 \18:27\For you are the saviour of those who are in trouble; but eyes full of pride will be made low.
29 \18:28\You, O Lord, will be my light; by you, my God, the dark will be made bright for me.
30 \18:29\By your help I have made a way through the wall which was shutting me in; by the help of my God I have gone over a wall.
31 \18:30\As for God, his way is completely good; the word of the Lord is tested; he is a breastplate for all those who put their faith in him.
32 \18:31\For who is God but the Lord? or who is a Rock but our God?
33 \18:32\God puts a strong band about me, guiding me in a straight way.
34 \18:33\He makes my feet like roes' feet, and puts me on high places.
35 \18:34\He makes my hands expert in war, so that a bow of brass is bent by my arms.
36 \18:35\You have given me the breastplate of your salvation: your right hand has been my support, and your mercy has made me great.
37 \18:36\You have made my steps wide under me, so that my feet are kept from slipping.
38 \18:37\I go after my haters and overtake them; not turning back till they are all overcome.
39 \18:38\I will give them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.
40 \18:39\For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who come out against me.
41 \18:40\By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.
42 \18:41\They were crying out, but there was no one to come to their help: even to the Lord, but he gave them no answer.
43 \18:42\Then they were crushed as small as dust before the wind; they were drained out like the waste of the streets.
44 \18:43\You have made me free from the fightings of the people; you have made me the head of the nations: a people of whom I had no knowledge will be my servants.
45 \18:44\From the time when my name comes to their ears they will be ruled by me: men of other countries will, with false hearts, put themselves under my authority.
46 \18:45\They will be wasting away, they will come out of their secret places shaking with fear.
47 \18:46\The Lord is living; praise be to my Rock, and let the God of my salvation be honoured.
48 \18:47\It is God who sends punishment on my haters, and puts peoples under my rule.
49 \18:48\He makes me free from my haters; I am lifted up over those who come up against me: you have made me free from the violent man.
50 \18:49\Because of this I will give you praise, O Lord, among the nations, and will make a song of praise to your name.
51 \18:50\Great salvation does he give to his king; he has mercy on the king of his selection, David, and on his seed for ever.