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Psalm 18 is the 18th psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "I love you, O LORD, my strength". In the Greek Septuagint and the Latin Vulgate , it is psalm 17 in a slightly different numbering system, known as "Diligam te Domine fortitudo mea". [ 1 ]
Psalm 18 David praises God as the rock from which he draws strength, and thanks God for defeating his enemies. He gives a vivid description of God's appearance.
Psalm 2 ("Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?") Psalm 18 ("I love you, O Lord, my strength.") Psalm 20 ("The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee") Psalm 21 ("The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!")
The Psalms of Solomon is a group of eighteen psalms, religious songs or poems, written in the first or second century BC.They are classed as Biblical apocrypha or as Old Testament pseudepigrapha; they appear in various copies of the Septuagint and the Peshitta, but were not admitted into later scriptural Biblical canons or generally included in printed Bibles after the arrival of the printing ...
The psalms are filled with thanksgiving and praise towards God. Many of these psalms forecast destruction or devastation in the future for their tribes but are balanced with God’s mercy and saving power for the people. [6] Some of the Psalms of Asaph are not labeled as only from Asaph but as "for the leader."
Psalms Chapter 8 text in Hebrew and English, mechon-mamre.org; For the leader; "upon the gittith." A psalm of David. / O LORD, our Lord, / how awesome is your name through all the earth! text and footnotes, usccb.org United States Conference of Catholic Bishops; Psalm 8:1 introduction and text, biblestudytools.com
The midrash is prone to interpreting numbers, contributing likewise thereby important observations on the number of the Psalms and of the sections of the Pentateuch as well as on the number of verses in various Psalms. Thus it enumerates 175 sections of the Pentateuch, 147 psalms, [14] and nine verses in Psalms 20. [15]
Chapter and verse divisions did not appear in the original texts of Jewish or Christian bibles; such divisions form part of the paratext of the Bible.Since the early 13th century, most copies and editions of the Bible have presented all but the shortest of the scriptural books with divisions into chapters, generally a page or so in length.