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Psalm 18 Prayed
Praise
for the sufferings
and
victory of Christ
Praise for what Christ suffered for me
I love you, O Lord, my
strength.
You
are my rock, my fortress
and
my deliverer;
You are my God my rock,
in
whom I take refuge.
Your are my shield and the horn
of my salvation,
my
stronghold.
I call to you, the Lord who is worthy of praise,
and
I am saved from my spiritual enemies,
only because of the victory of your
Son Jesus,
what
he endured on the cross:
The cords of death entangled
Jesus;
the
torrents of destruction overwhelmed him.
The cords of the grave coiled
around my Saviour;
the
snares of death confronted him.
In his distress he called to
you, his Father;
He
cried to you, O God, for help.
From your temple you heard his
voice;
his
cry came before you, into your ears.
And when Jesus had cried out again in a
loud
voice,
he
gave up his spirit.
At
that moment the curtain of the temple
was
torn in two from top to bottom.
The earth shook and the rocks split.
The
earth trembled and quaked,
and
the foundations of the mountains shook;
they
trembled because you were angry.
Smoke rose from your nostrils,
O God;
consuming
fire came from your mouth,
burning
coals blazed out of it.
You parted the heavens and came
down;
dark
clouds were under your feet.
You mounted the cherubim and
flew;
you
soared on the wings of the wind.
It was now about the sixth
hour,
and
darkness came over the whole land
until
the ninth hour,
for
the sun stopped shining.
You made darkness your
covering,
your
canopy around you—
the
dark rain clouds of the sky.
Out of the brightness of your
presence
clouds
advanced,
with
hailstones and bolts of lightning.
You thundered from heaven, O
Lord;
the
voice of the Most High resounded.
You shot your arrows and
scattered
your
spiritual enemies,
great
bolts of lightning and routed them.
And having disarmed the powers
and authorities,
you
made a public spectacle of them
triumphing
over them by the cross.
The valleys of the sea were exposed
and
the foundations of the earth laid bare
at your rebuke, O Lord,
at
the blast of breath from your nostrils.
Jesus called out to you with a loud
voice,
“Father,
into your hands I commit my spirit.”
When he had said this, he
breathed his last.
You reached down from on high
and
took hold of Jesus;
you
drew him out of the deep waters of death.
You rescued him from his
powerful
enemy Satan,
from all his foes, who were too
strong for his
mortal
body.
They confronted him in the day
of
his crucifixion,
but you were his support.
You brought him out into a
spacious place;
you
rescued him because you delighted in him.
You brought Jesus into his
kingdom,
and
that day you even brought
the criminal on the cross
to
be with him in paradise.
You, Lord God, dealt with Jesus
according to his righteousness;
according to the cleanness of
his hands
you have rewarded him.
He appeared so that he might
take away our sins.
And
in him is no sin.
For he kept your ways, O Lord;
He
did no evil by turning from you.
All your laws were before him;
He
did not turn away from your decrees.
He was blameless before you
and
kept himself from sin.
You rewarded him according
to his righteousness, O Lord,
according to the cleanness of
his hands
in your sight.
My response of delight and confidence
Now, to the faithful you can
show yourself faithful,
to
the blameless you are able to show
yourself
blameless,
to those you have purified by
the blood of Jesus,
you
can show yourself pure,
but
to the crooked you show yourself shrewd.
You save those humble enough to
admit
their
need of Jesus,
but bring low those whose eyes
are haughty;
who
say they have no need of your grace.
You, O Lord, keep my lamp
burning;
my
God who turns my darkness into light.
Because of the victory of
Jesus,
with
your help, I can advance against a troop;
with
my God I can scale a wall.
As for you, O God, your way is
perfect;
Your
Word the Bible is flawless.
You are a shield
for
all who take refuge in Jesus.
For who is God besides you, O
Lord?
And
who is the Rock except Jesus?
It is you, O God, who arms me
with strength
and
makes my way perfect.
You make my feet like the feet
of a deer;
you
enable me to stand on the heights.
You train my hands for battle;
my
arms can bend a bow of bronze.
You give me your shield of
victory,
for
Christ my Saviour has gone before me.
Your right hand sustains me;
you
stoop down to make me great.
You broaden the path beneath
me,
so
that my ankles do not turn.
Jesus pursued my spiritual
enemies
and
overtook them;
He
did not turn back till they were destroyed.
He crushed them so that
they could not rise;
they
fell beneath his feet.
You armed him with
strength for battle;
you
made his adversaries bow at his feet.
You made his spiritual
enemies
turn
their backs in flight,
and
you destroyed my foes.
They cried for help, but there
was no one
to
save them—
Satan their leader abandoned
them,
You,
O Lord, did not answer.
You beat them as fine as dust
borne on the wind;
You
poured them out like mud in the streets.
Since I have flesh and blood,
Jesus
also shared in my humanity,
so that by his death he might
destroy him
who
holds the power of death—
that
is, the devil—
and free me, who all my life was held in slavery
by
my fear of death.
You have delivered Jesus from
the attacks
of
the people;
you
have made him the head of nations:
May those people who do not
know Jesus
now
hear the gospel.
May they obey him;
may
foreigners bow before him in repentance.
May they all lose heart in
their false gods;
may
they come trembling from their
strongholds,
and
discover the freedom of serving you.
The Lord Jesus lives!
Death
could not hold him.
Praise be to my Rock!
Exalted
be God my Saviour!
You are the God who avenges
Christ,
who
subdues nations under him,
who
saves him from his spiritual enemies.
You exalted him above his foes;
from
violent men you rescued him.
Therefore I will praise
you among
the
nations, O Lord;
I
will sing praises to your name.
You give King Jesus great
victories;
You
show unfailing kindness to your Messiah,
to Jesus the Son of
David,
and
to us, his descendants by faith, forever.
to David and
his descendants forever.
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Psalm 18 Prayed
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