Verse 26
Psalms 18:26
GOD'S WORD Translation
26
With the pure, you will show yourself pure.
With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
Original Language Text
hebrew
עִם חָסִ֥יד תִּתְחַסָּ֑ד עִם גְּבַ֥ר תָּ֝מִ֗ים תִּתַּמָּֽם
English Translation
With the faithful, you will show yourself faithful; with the blameless, you will show yourself blameless.
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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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