Psalms 18:1 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 18:1

I will love thee, O Lord, my strength.

KJV

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WEB

I love You, O LORD, my strength.

ASV

I love thee, O Jehovah, my strength.

YLT

To the Overseer. --By a servant of Jehovah, by David, who hath spoken to Jehovah the words of this song in the day Jehovah delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul, and he saith: --I love Thee, O Jehovah, my strength.

DBT

I will love thee, O Jehovah, my strength.

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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46 verses on the floor

Hebrews 13:6
So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
2 Samuel 22:1–51
And David spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:
Psalms 27:1
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Colossians 1:11
Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
Nahum 1:7
The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.

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As the Scripture does not use the verb rhm, racham, for to love, except in the conjugation pihel, and as it is here put in the conjugation kal, some of the Jewish expositors explain it as here meaning to seek mercy; as if David had said, Lord, since I have so often experienced thee to be a merciful God, I will trust to and repose in thy mercies for ever.

John Calvin· Commentaries, 1554reformed

The various terms used describe God as an object of the most implicit and reliable trust. rock--literally, "a cleft rock," for concealment. strength--a firm, immovable rock. horn of my salvation--The horn, as the means of attack or defense of some of the strongest animals, is a frequent emblem of power or strength efficiently exercised (compare De 33:17;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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PSA 18:1PHP 4:13 EPH 6:10
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 18:1PHP 4:13 ISA 41:10
PSA 18:1PHP 4:13 2CO 12:9-10
PSA 18:1PHP 4:13 COL 1:11
PSA 18:1PHP 4:13 ISA 40:29-31
PSA 18:11JN 4:19 1JN 4:10
PSA 18:11JN 4:19 JHN 3:16
PSA 18:11JN 4:19 JHN 15:16

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