Psalm 18: Israeli Elections Both Sides Declare Victory

26 Psalms 18
¹I will love you, Yahvah, my strength and my trust;
²my refuge and my deliverer is the mighty God in whom I trust; he is my helper and the horn of my salvation and my glorious refuge.
³I will call on Yahvah; so I will be saved from my enemies.

⁴For the pains of death surrounded me, and the rush of ungodly men has confused me.
⁵The travail of the grave has taken hold of me: the snares of death preceded me.

⁶In my distress I called on Yahvah, and cried to my God; he heard my voice out of his house, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
⁷Then the land shook and trembled; the foundations of the mountains also quaked and were shaken because he was angry.
⁸There went up smoke out of his wrath, and fire flamed from his face, and coals were kindled by it.
⁹He bowed the skies and came down; and thick darkness was under his feet.
¹⁰And he rode on cherubim and flew; yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.
¹¹He made darkness his cover; his pavilion around him was darkness of waters and thick clouds of the skies.
¹²Out of the brightness of his shadow, his clouds rained hailstones and coals of fire.

¹³Yahvah also thundered in the skies, and the Highest gave his voice: hailstones and coals of fire.
¹⁴Yes, he sent out his arrows and scattered them; and he multiplied his lightnings and confused them.
¹⁵Then the brooks appeared, and the foundations of the world were laid open at your rebuke, Yahvah, at the blast of the breath of your anger.

¹⁶He sent from on high and quieted me; he received me out of great waters.
¹⁷He delivered me from my strong enemies and from them which hated me; for they were too strong for me.
¹⁸They confronted me in the day of my extremity, but Yahvah was my deliverer.
¹⁹He brought me forth into comfort; he delivered me because he delighted in me.

²⁰Yahvah rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he has repaid me.
²¹For I have kept the ways of Yahvah, and have not revolted against my God.
²²For all his judgments were before me, and his laws I did not put away from me.
²³I was also blameless before him, and I carefully kept myself from my sins.
²⁴Therefore Yahvah has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyes.

²⁵With the pure, you will be pure; with an upright man, you will be upright.
²⁶With the clean, you will be clean; and from the crooked, you will turn aside.
²⁷For you will save the afflicted people; but will humble the proud.
²⁸For you will light my lamp; Yahvah my God will enlighten my darkness.
²⁹For through you, I have pursued a band of robbers; and through my God, I have lept over a fence.
³⁰As for God, his way is perfect; the word of Yahvah is pure: he is a help to all those who trust in him.

³¹For there is no God except Yahvah; and there is no one who is mighty like our God.
³²It is God that girds me with strength and makes my way perfect.
³³He makes my feet like deer's feet and sets me on high places.
³⁴He trains my hands to war; and he strengthens my arms like a bow of brass.
³⁵You have also given me the shield of your salvation; and your right hand has held me up; and your discipline has made me great.
³⁶You have steadied my legs under me, that my ankles may not be weakened.
³⁷I will pursue my enemies and overtake them; and I will not turn again until they are consumed.
³⁸I will strike them so that they will not be able to stand; they will fall under my feet.
³⁹For you have girded me with strength to the battle; you have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
⁴⁰You have also defeated my enemies before me, that I might silence those who hate me.
⁴¹They will cry, but there will not be anyone to save them; they will beg Yahvah, but he will not answer them.
⁴²Then I will beat them small as the dust before the wind; I will tread over them as the mire of the streets.

⁴³You will deliver me from the judgments of the people; and you will make me the leader of the Gentiles; a people whom I have not known will serve me.
⁴⁴As soon as they hear of me, they will obey me; strangers will submit themselves to me.
⁴⁵Strangers will halt and will be hindered from walking in their paths.

⁴⁶Yahvah lives; blessed be the one who gives me strength; let my God and my Savior be exalted.
⁴⁷It is God that avenges me and subdues the people under me.
⁴⁸He delivered me from my enemies; yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me; you have delivered me from lawless men.

⁴⁹Therefore I will give thanks to you Yahvah, among the Gentiles, and sing praises to your name.
⁵⁰He gives great deliverance to his king; and shows mercy to his anointed, to David and to his sons forever.