{"translation":{"identifier":"web","name":"World English Bible","language":"English","language_code":"eng","license":"Public Domain"},"verses":[{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":1,"text":"I love you, Yahweh, my strength.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":2,"text":"Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer;\nmy God, my rock, in whom I take refuge;\nmy shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":3,"text":"I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised;\nand I am saved from my enemies.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":4,"text":"The cords of death surrounded me.\nThe floods of ungodliness made me afraid.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":5,"text":"The cords of Sheol were around me.\nThe snares of death came on me.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":6,"text":"In my distress I called on Yahweh,\nand cried to my God.\nHe heard my voice out of his temple.\nMy cry before him came into his ears.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":7,"text":"Then the earth shook and trembled.\nThe foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken,\nbecause he was angry.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":8,"text":"Smoke went out of his nostrils.\nConsuming fire came out of his mouth.\nCoals were kindled by it.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":9,"text":"He bowed the heavens also, and came down.\nThick darkness was under his feet.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":10,"text":"He rode on a cherub, and flew.\nYes, he soared on the wings of the wind.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":11,"text":"He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him,\ndarkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":12,"text":"At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed,\nhailstones and coals of fire.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":13,"text":"Yahweh also thundered in the sky.\nThe Most High uttered his voice:\nhailstones and coals of fire.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":14,"text":"He sent out his arrows, and scattered them;\nYes, great lightning bolts, and routed them.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":15,"text":"Then the channels of waters appeared.\nThe foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh,\nat the blast of the breath of your nostrils.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":16,"text":"He sent from on high.\nHe took me.\nHe drew me out of many waters.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":17,"text":"He delivered me from my strong enemy,\nfrom those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":18,"text":"They came on me in the day of my calamity,\nbut Yahweh was my support.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":19,"text":"He brought me out also into a large place.\nHe delivered me, because he delighted in me.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":20,"text":"Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness.\nAccording to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":21,"text":"For I have kept the ways of Yahweh,\nand have not wickedly departed from my God.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":22,"text":"For all his ordinances were before me.\nI didn’t put away his statutes from me.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":23,"text":"I was also blameless with him.\nI kept myself from my iniquity.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":24,"text":"Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness,\naccording to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":25,"text":"With the merciful you will show yourself merciful.\nWith the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":26,"text":"With the pure, you will show yourself pure.\nWith the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":27,"text":"For you will save the afflicted people,\nbut the haughty eyes you will bring down.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":28,"text":"For you will light my lamp, Yahweh.\nMy God will light up my darkness.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":29,"text":"For by you, I advance through a troop.\nBy my God, I leap over a wall.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":30,"text":"As for God, his way is perfect.\nYahweh’s word is tried.\nHe is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":31,"text":"For who is God, except Yahweh?\nWho is a rock, besides our God,\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":32,"text":"the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":33,"text":"He makes my feet like deer’s feet,\nand sets me on my high places.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":34,"text":"He teaches my hands to war,\nso that my arms bend a bow of bronze.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":35,"text":"You have also given me the shield of your salvation.\nYour right hand sustains me.\nYour gentleness has made me great.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":36,"text":"You have enlarged my steps under me,\nMy feet have not slipped.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":37,"text":"I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them.\nNeither will I turn again until they are consumed.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":38,"text":"I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise.\nThey shall fall under my feet.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":39,"text":"For you have armed me with strength to the battle.\nYou have subdued under me those who rose up against me.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":40,"text":"You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me,\nthat I might cut off those who hate me.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":41,"text":"They cried, but there was no one to save;\neven to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":42,"text":"Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind.\nI cast them out as the mire of the streets.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":43,"text":"You have delivered me from the strivings of the people.\nYou have made me the head of the nations.\nA people whom I have not known shall serve me.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":44,"text":"As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me.\nThe foreigners shall submit themselves to me.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":45,"text":"The foreigners shall fade away,\nand shall come trembling out of their close places.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":46,"text":"Yahweh lives; and blessed be my rock.\nExalted be the God of my salvation,\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":47,"text":"even the God who executes vengeance for me,\nand subdues peoples under me.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":48,"text":"He rescues me from my enemies.\nYes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me.\nYou deliver me from the violent man.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":49,"text":"Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations,\nand will sing praises to your name.\n"},{"book_id":"PSA","book":"Psalms","chapter":18,"verse":50,"text":"He gives great deliverance to his king,\nand shows loving kindness to his anointed,\nto David and to his offspring, forever more.\n"}]}