Psalms 18 — English–Hebrew Parallel

1 I racham (show mercy / love) you, Yahawah (), my chazaq (strength).

2 Yahawah () is my salai (rock), my matzawad (fortress), and my deliverer; my Al, my tzawar (rock), in whom I take chasah (refuge); my magan (shield), and the qaran (horn) of my yashai (salvation), my high tower.

3 I qaraa (called) on Yahawah (), who is halal (praise) to be praised; and I am yashai (salvation) from my ayab (enemy).

4 The chabalay (cords) of mawath (death) surrounded me. The nachalay (floods) of ungodliness made me baith (afraid).

5 The chabalay (cords) of shaawal (Sheol / afterlife) were around me. The mawaqashay (snares) of mawath (death) qadam (came) on me.

6 In my tzar (oppressor / distressor) I qaraa (called) on Yahawah (), and shawai (cried) to my Alahayam (). He shamai (hearken / hear) my qawal (sound / voice) out of his hayakal (temple). My cry panayam (face) him bawaa (come) into his azan (ear).

7 Then the aratz (Earth/land) gaish (shook) and raish (trembled). The mawasaday (foundations) also of the harayam (mountains) ragaz (quaked) and were gaish (shaken), because he was charah (hot with anger).

8 Ishan (smoke) ilah (go up / offer) out of his ap (nostril / picture: bull snorting). Akal (eat) ash (fire) came out of his pah (mouth). Gachalayam (coals) were bair (kindled) by it.

9 He natah (bowed) the shamayam (Shamayam / Heavens) also, and yarad (came) down. Irapal (thick) darkness was under his ragal (feet / foot).

10 He rakab (rode) on a karawab (cherub), and iwap (flying). Yes, he soared on the kanapay (wings) of the rawach (spirit / wind).

11 He shayath (put / appoint / make) chashak (darkness) his sathar (secret / hidden) place, his sakah (pavilion) around him, chashakah (darkness) of mayam (Waters), ib (thick) clouds of the skies.

12 At the nagah (brightness) before him his ib (thick) clouds ibar (pass over/through), hailstones and gachalay (coals) of ash (fire).

13 Yahawah () also raim (thundered) in the sky. The Most ilayawan (Ilayawan) nathan (give) his qawal (sound / voice): hailstones and gachalay (coals) of ash (fire).

14 He shalach (send) out his chatz (arrows), and pawatz (scattered) them; Yes, great baraq (lightning) bolts, and routed them.

15 Then the apayaqay (channels) of mayam (Waters) raah (see). The mawasadawath (foundations) of the thabal (world) were laid bare at your gairah (rebuke), Yahawah (), at the nashamah (breathing thing) of the rawach (spirit / wind) of your ap (nostril / picture: bull snorting).

16 He shalach (send) from on marawam (high). He laqach (take / seize) me. He mashah (Moses) me out of many mayam (Waters).

17 He natzal (delivered) me from my iz (strong) ayab (enemy), from those who shanaa (hate) me; for they were too amatz (mighty) for me.

18 They qadam (came) on me in the yawam (day) of my ayad (calamity), but Yahawah () was my support.

19 He yatzaa (go out / come out) me forth also into a marachab (large) place. He chalatz (delivered) me, because he chapatz (delighted) in me.

20 Yahawah () has gamal (rewarded) me according to my tzadaq (righteous / just / fair). According to the bar (cleanness) of my yad (hand) has he shawab (turn back / repent) me.

21 For I have shamar (keep/guard) the darakay (ways) of Yahawah (), and have not wickedly departed from my Alahayam ().

22 For all his mashapat (ordinances) were before me. I didn't sawar (put) away his chaqah (statutes) from me.

23 I was also blameless with him. I shamar (keep/guard) myself from my iwan (guilt/iniquity).

24 Therefore Yahawah () has shawab (turn back / repent) me according to my tzadaq (righteous / just / fair), according to the bar (cleanness) of my yad (hand) in his eyesight.

25 With the chasayad (merciful) you will show yourself chasad (grace). With the thamayam (complete / whole) gabar (man), you will show yourself thamam (perfect).

26 With the barar (pure), you will show yourself barar (pure). With the iqash (crooked) you will show yourself shrewd.

27 For you will yashai (salvation) the inay (afflicted) im (nation / people), but the rawam (will lift up) iyanayam (eyes) you will shapal (bring) down.

28 For you will awar (light) my nayar (lamp), Yahawah (). My Alahayam () will nagah (light) up my chashak (darkness).

29 For by you, I advance rawatz (through) a gadawad (troop). By my Alahayam (), I dalag (leap) over a shawar (wall).

30 As for Al, his darak (way) is thamayam (complete / whole). The amarah (sayings) of Yahawah () is tzarap (tried). He is a magan (shield) to all those who take chasah (refuge) in him.

31 For who is Alawah (), except Yahawah ()? Who is a tzawar (rock), zawalah (besides) our Alahayam (),

32 The Al who arms me with chayal (wealth / substance / capability / valor), and nathan (give) my darak (way) thamayam (complete / whole)?

33 He shawah (makes) my ragal (feet / foot) like deer's feet, and imad (sets) me on my bamah (high) places.

34 He teaches my yad (hand) to malachamah (war), so that my zarawai (arms) bend a qashath (bow) of bronze.

35 You nathan (give) also given me the magan (shield) of your yashai (salvation). Your right yamayan (right hand) sustains me. Your inawah (gentleness) rabah (has) made me great.

36 You have enlarged my tzaid (steps) under me, My qarasal (feet) have not maid (slipped).

37 I will radap (pursue) my ayab (enemy), and nashag (overtake) them. Neither will I shawab (turn) again until they are kalah (complete / finish).

38 I will machatz (crush / shatter) them through, so that they will not be yakal (able) to qawam (rise up). They shall napal (fall / be cast down) under my ragal (feet / foot).

39 For you have armed me with chayal (wealth / substance / capability / valor) to the malachamah (battle). You have karai (subdued) under me those who qawam (rise up) up against me.

40 You nathan (give) also made my ayab (enemy) turn their irap (neck) to me, that I might tzamath (cut) off those who shanaa (hate) me.

41 They shawai (cried), but there was none to yashai (salvation); even to Yahawah (), but he didn't inah (answer / respond) them.

42 Then I shachaq (beat) them small as the ipar (dust) panayam (face) the rawach (spirit / wind). I rawaq (cast) them out as the tayat (mire) of the chawatzawath (streets).

43 You have palat (delivered) me from the rayabay (strivings) of the im (nation / people). You have shawam (place / establish / appoint) me the raash (head) of the gawayam (heathen). A im (nation / people) whom I yadai (have) not known shall ibad (servant) me.

44 As soon as they shamai (hear) of me they shall shamai (hearken / hear) me. The foreigners shall kachash (submit) themselves to me.

45 The foreigners shall nabal (fade) away, and shall come trembling out of their masagarath (close) places.

46 Yahawah () chay (life); and barak (blessed) be my tzawar (rock). Rawam (will lift up) be the Alahayam () of my yashai (salvation),

47 Even the Al who executes vengeance for me, and dabar (word / matter) imayam (peoples) under me.

48 He rescues me from my ayab (enemy). Yes, you rawam (will lift up) me up above those who rawam (will lift up) up against me. You natzal (deliver) me from the chamas (violent) ayash (man / husband).

49 Therefore I will give yadah (thanks) to you, Yahawah (), among the gawayam (nations), and will sing zamar (praises) to your sham (name).

50 He gadal (gives) great yashawaih (salvation) to his malak (king), and shows loving chasad (grace) to his mashayach (anointed one), to Dawad (David) and to his zarai (seed), forevermore.