¹Untuk pemimpin kor. Mazmur Daud, hamba TUHAN. Dinyanyikan kepada TUHAN pada waktu Daud dilepaskan dari Saul dan dari musuh-musuhnya. (18-2) Kucinta kepada-Mu, ya TUHAN, Engkaulah kekuatanku.

²Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

²(18-3) TUHAN seperti benteng yang kuat tempat aku berlindung. Allahku seperti gunung batu tempat aku bernaung. Seperti perisai Ia menutupi aku, dan menjaga aku agar aman selalu.

³I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised; and I am saved from my enemies.

³(18-4) Aku berseru kepada TUHAN yang patut dipuji, Ia membebaskan aku dari musuh-musuhku.

⁴The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

⁴(18-5) Aku dikelilingi bahaya maut dan digenangi banjir kebinasaan.

⁵The cords of Sheol Sheol is the place of the dead. were around me. The snares of death came on me.

⁵(18-6) Aku dikelilingi bahaya maut, perangkap maut ada di depanku.

⁶In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

⁶(18-7) Dalam kesesakanku aku berseru kepada TUHAN, aku berteriak kepada Allahku mohon pertolongan. Dari Rumah-Nya Ia mendengar suaraku dan memperhatikan seruanku.

⁷Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.

⁷(18-8) Lalu bumi berguncang dan bergetar, dasar-dasar gunung goyah dan gemetar karena kemarahan Allah.

⁸Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.

⁸(18-9) Asap menyembur dari lubang hidung-Nya, api dan bara keluar dari mulut-Nya.

⁹He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.

⁹(18-10) Langit dibelah-Nya, lalu turunlah Ia dengan awan gelap di bawah kaki-Nya.

¹⁰He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.

¹⁰(18-11) Ia terbang dengan mengendarai kerub; Ia melayang di atas sayap angin.

¹¹He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

¹¹(18-12) Ia menyelubungi diri-Nya dengan kegelapan; awan mendung yang tebal mengelilingi Dia.

¹²At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire.

¹²(18-13) Dari kilat di hadapan-Nya, keluarlah awan, hujan es dan api.

¹³Yahweh also thundered in the sky. The Most High uttered his voice: hailstones and coals of fire.

¹³(18-14) Lalu TUHAN mengguntur dari angkasa; Yang Mahatinggi memperdengarkan suara-Nya.

¹⁴He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, great lightning bolts, and routed them.

¹⁴(18-15) Ia menembakkan panah-panah-Nya dan menceraiberaikan musuh; Ia menyambarkan kilat berulang-ulang, dan membuat mereka lari.

¹⁵Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.

¹⁵(18-16) Dasar laut tersingkap dan alas bumi terbuka waktu TUHAN membentak musuh-Nya dengan murka.

¹⁶He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.

¹⁶(18-17) Dari atas TUHAN mengulurkan tangan-Nya; dipegang-Nya aku dan ditarik-Nya dari air yang dalam.

¹⁷He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.

¹⁷(18-18) Ia menyelamatkan aku dari musuh yang perkasa dan dari orang-orang yang membenci aku, karena mereka terlalu kuat bagiku.

¹⁸They came on me in the day of my calamity, but Yahweh was my support.

¹⁸(18-19) Mereka menyerang aku waktu aku ditimpa bencana, tetapi TUHAN menjadi penolongku.

¹⁹He brought me forth also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

¹⁹(18-20) Ia melepaskan aku dari bahaya dan menyelamatkan aku karena Ia berkenan padaku.

²⁰Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.

²⁰(18-21) TUHAN membalas perbuatanku yang benar; Ia memberkati aku sebab aku tidak bersalah.

²¹For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

²¹(18-22) Aku mentaati perintah TUHAN dan tidak berpaling dari Allahku.

²²For all his ordinances were before me. I didn’t put away his statutes from me.

²²(18-23) Semua hukum-Nya kuperhatikan, perintah-perintah-Nya tidak kulalaikan.

²³I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.

²³(18-24) Ia tahu bahwa aku tidak bercela dan menjauhkan diri dari kesalahan.

²⁴Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.

²⁴(18-25) Maka TUHAN membalas perbuatanku yang benar sebab Ia tahu aku tidak bersalah.

²⁵With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.

²⁵(18-26) TUHAN, Engkau setia kepada orang yang setia dan baik kepada orang yang baik.

²⁶With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.

²⁶(18-27) Terhadap orang yang suci Kaunyatakan diri-Mu suci, tetapi orang yang jahat Kaumusuhi.

²⁷For you will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes you will bring down.

²⁷(18-28) Orang yang rendah hati Kauselamatkan, tetapi orang yang congkak Kautundukkan.

²⁸For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.

²⁸(18-29) Engkau menyalakan pelitaku; TUHAN Allahku menerangi kegelapanku.

²⁹For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall.

²⁹(18-30) Engkau menguatkan aku untuk menumpas musuh; dengan bantuan Allahku kudobrak pertahanan mereka.

³⁰As for God, his way is perfect. The word of Yahweh is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

³⁰(18-31) Perbuatan Allah sempurna janji TUHAN dapat dipercaya. Ia seperti perisai bagi semua yang berlindung pada-Nya.

³¹For who is God, except Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God,

³¹(18-32) Sebab hanya Tuhanlah Allah; Allah saja pembela kita.

³²(18-33) Dialah Allah yang menguatkan aku dan membuat jalanku aman.

³³He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and sets me on my high places.

³³(18-34) Ia menguatkan kakiku seperti kaki rusa, dan menjaga keselamatanku di pegunungan.

³⁴He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.

³⁴(18-35) Ia melatih aku untuk berperang, sehingga aku dapat merentangkan busur yang paling kuat.

³⁵You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.

³⁵(18-36) TUHAN, Engkau melindungi dan menyelamatkan aku, dan menopang aku dengan kuasa-Mu; aku menjadi unggul karena tindakan-Mu.

³⁶You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.

³⁶(18-37) Kaujaga aku supaya aku tidak tertawan, dan aku tidak pernah jatuh.

³⁷I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. Neither will I turn again until they are consumed.

³⁷(18-38) Kukejar musuhku dan kukalahkan mereka, dan pantang mundur sampai mereka binasa.

³⁸I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet.

³⁸(18-39) Kubanting mereka sampai tak dapat bangun lagi, mereka rebah tak berdaya di depan kakiku.

³⁹For you have armed me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

³⁹(18-40) Kauberi aku kekuatan untuk berperang, dan kemenangan atas musuh-musuhku.

⁴⁰You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.

⁴⁰(18-41) Kaubuat musuhku lari daripadaku; orang-orang yang membenci aku kubinasakan.

⁴¹They cried, but there was none to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.

⁴¹(18-42) Mereka berteriak, tetapi tak ada yang menolong, mereka berseru kepada TUHAN, tetapi Ia tidak menjawab.

⁴²Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets.

⁴²(18-43) Mereka kuremukkan seperti debu yang berhamburan, dan kusapu seperti lumpur di jalan.

⁴³You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

⁴³(18-44) Engkau membebaskan aku dari kaum yang durhaka, dan menjadikan aku penguasa bangsa-bangsa; bangsa yang tidak kukenal menjadi hambaku.

⁴⁴As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.

⁴⁴(18-45) Orang-orang asing tunduk kepadaku dan taat bila mendengar perintahku.

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

⁴⁵(18-46) Keberanian mereka sudah hilang; mereka gemetar dan keluar dari kubunya.

⁴⁶Yahweh lives; and blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my salvation,

⁴⁶(18-47) TUHAN hidup! Terpujilah pembelaku! Agungkanlah kebesaran Allah penyelamatku!

⁴⁷even the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues peoples under me.

⁴⁷(18-48) Ia memberi aku kemenangan atas musuhku; bangsa-bangsa ditaklukkan-Nya di hadapanku,

⁴⁸He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.

⁴⁸(18-49) diselamatkan-Nya aku dari lawan-lawanku. TUHAN, Kauberi aku kemenangan atas musuhku, Kaulindungi aku dari orang-orang yang kejam.

⁴⁹Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations, and will sing praises to your name.

⁴⁹(18-50) Maka kuagungkan Engkau di antara bangsa-bangsa, dan kunyanyikan puji-pujian bagi-Mu.

⁵⁰He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his seed, forevermore.

⁵⁰(18-51) Allah memberi kemenangan besar kepada raja-Nya, Ia tetap mengasihi orang pilihan-Nya, yaitu Daud dan keturunannya untuk selama-lamanya.