Psalm 18:37-51

Complete Jewish Bible

^38 (37) “I pursued my enemies and overtook them,
without turning back until they were destroyed.
^39 (38) I crushed them, so that they can’t get up;
they have fallen under my feet.

^40 (39) “For you braced me with strength for the battle
and bent down my adversaries beneath me.
^41 (40) You made my enemies turn their backs in flight,
and I destroyed those who hated me.

^42 (41) “They cried out, but there was no one to help,
even to Adonai, but he didn’t answer.
^43 (42) I pulverized them like dust in the wind,
threw them out like mud in the streets.

^44 (43) “You also freed me from the quarrels of my people.
You made me head of the nations;
a people I did not know now serve me —
^45 (44) the moment they hear of me, they obey me,
foreigners come cringing to me.
^46 (45) Foreigners lose heart
as they come trembling from their fortresses.
^47 (46) “Adonai is alive! Blessed is my Rock!
Exalted be the God of my salvation,
^48 (47) the God who avenges me
and subdues peoples under me.
^49 (48) He delivers me from my enemies.
You lift me high above my enemies,
you rescue me from violent men.

^50 (49) “So I give thanks to you, Adonai, among the nations;
I sing praises to your name.
^51 (50) Great salvation he gives to his king;
he displays grace to his anointed,
to David and his descendants forever.”