Verse 20
Psalms 18:20
World English Bible
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Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness.
According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יּוֹצִיאֵ֥/נִי לַ/מֶּרְחָ֑ב יְ֝חַלְּצֵ֗/נִי כִּ֘י חָ֥פֵֽץ בִּֽ/י
English Translation
And He brought me out to the broad place; He rescued me because He delighted in me.
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Chapter 18 Context
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I love you, Yahweh, my strength.
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Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer;
my God (Elohim), my rock, in whom I take refuge;
m...
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I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised;
and I am saved from my enemies.
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The cords of death surrounded me.
The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
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The cords of Sheol were around me.
The snares of death came on me.
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In my distress I called on Yahweh,
and cried to my God (Elohim).
He heard my voice out of his temple...
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Then the earth shook and trembled.
The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken,
bec...
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Smoke went out of his nostrils.
Consuming fire came out of his mouth.
Coals were kindled by it.
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He bowed the heavens also, and came down.
Thick darkness was under his feet.
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He rode on a cherub, and flew.
Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.
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He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him,
darkness of waters, thick clouds of the...
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At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed,
hailstones and coals of fire.
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Yahweh also thundered in the sky.
The Most High uttered his voice:
hailstones and coals of fire.
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He sent out his arrows, and scattered them;
Yes, great lightning bolts, and routed them.
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Then the channels of waters appeared.
The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Ya...
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He sent from on high.
He took me.
He drew me out of many waters.
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He delivered me from my strong enemy,
from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
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They came on me in the day of my calamity,
but Yahweh was my support.
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He brought me out also into a large place.
He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
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Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness.
According to the cleanness of my hands has he...
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For I have kept the ways of Yahweh,
and have not wickedly departed from my God (Elohim).
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For all his ordinances were before me.
I didn’t put away his statutes from me.
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I was also blameless with him.
I kept myself from my iniquity.
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Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness,
according to the cleanness of my han...
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With the merciful you will show yourself merciful.
With the perfect man, you will show yourself perf...
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With the pure, you will show yourself pure.
With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
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For you will save the afflicted people,
but the haughty eyes you will bring down.
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For you will light my lamp, Yahweh.
My God (Elohim) will light up my darkness.
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For by you, I advance through a troop.
By my God (Elohim), I leap over a wall.
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As for God (Elohim), his way is perfect.
Yahweh’s word is tried.
He is a shield to all those who tak...
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For who is God (Elohim), except Yahweh?
Who is a rock, besides our God (Elohim),
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the God (Elohim) who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?
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He makes my feet like deer’s feet,
and sets me on my high places.
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He teaches my hands to war,
so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.
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You have also given me the shield of your salvation.
Your right hand sustains me.
Your gentleness ha...
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You have enlarged my steps under me,
My feet have not slipped.
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I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them.
Neither will I turn again until they are consumed.
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I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise.
They shall fall under my feet.
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For you have armed me with strength to the battle.
You have subdued under me those who rose up again...
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You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me,
that I might cut off those who hate me.
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They cried, but there was no one to save;
even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.
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Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind.
I cast them out as the mire of the streets.
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You have delivered me from the strivings of the people.
You have made me the head of the nations.
A...
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As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me.
The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.
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The foreigners shall fade away,
and shall come trembling out of their close places.
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Yahweh lives; and blessed be my rock.
Exalted be the God (Elohim) of my salvation,
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even the God (Elohim) who executes vengeance for me,
and subdues peoples under me.
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He rescues me from my enemies.
Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me.
You deliver m...
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Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations,
and will sing praises to your name.
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He gives great deliverance to his king,
and shows loving kindness to his anointed,
to David and to h...
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