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Psalm 18

¹I will love thee, O Lord, my strength.
²The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
³I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
⁴The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
⁵The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
⁶In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
⁷Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
⁸There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
⁹He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
¹⁰And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
¹¹He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
¹²At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
¹³The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
¹⁴Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
¹⁵Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
¹⁶He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
¹⁷He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.
¹⁸They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the Lord was my stay.
¹⁹He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
²⁰The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

²¹And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
²²Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?
²³Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord God; I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision.
²⁴For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.
²⁵For I am the Lord: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord God.
²⁶Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying.
²⁷Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he seeth is for many days to come, and he prophesieth of the times that are far off.
²⁸Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; There shall none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have spoken shall be done, saith the Lord God.

¹⁴And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
¹⁵That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
¹⁷For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
¹⁸He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
¹⁹And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
²⁰For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
²¹But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.