Psalms 18:3
I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; so shall I be saved from my enemies.
BSB
ASV
I will call upon Jehovah, who is worthy to be praised: So shall I be saved from mine enemies.
KJV
I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
In this verse the happy poet resolves to invoke the Lord in joyful song, believing that in all future conflicts his God would deal as well with him as in the past. It is well to pray to God as to one who deserves to be praised, for then we plead in a happy and confident manner. If I feel that I can and do bless the Lord for all his past goodness, I am bold to ask great things of him. That word So has much in it. To be saved singing is to be saved indeed.
He sets himself to magnify the deliverances God had wrought for him, that he might be the more affected in his returns of praise. It is good for us to observe all the circumstances of a mercy, which magnify the power of God and his goodness to us in it. The more imminent and threatening the danger was out of which we were delivered the greater is the mercy of the deliverance.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Psalms 62:8Trust in Him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts before Him. God is our refuge. Selah
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Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
Trust in the LORD forever, because GOD the LORD is the Rock eternal.
Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives…
I pour out my complaint before Him; I reveal my trouble to Him.
“No, my lord,” Hannah replied. “I am a woman oppressed in spirit. I have not had any wine or strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the LORD.
Through
Psalms 91:15When he calls out to Me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him.
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Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.
Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”
Even before they call, I will answer, and while they are still speaking, I will hear.