Psalms 18:18

The Darby Translation

They encountered me in the day of my calamity, but Jehovah was my stay.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They confronted me in the day of my calamity,but the Lord was my support.

Hebrew Names Version
They came on me in the day of my calamity, But the LORD was my support.

King James Version
They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the Lord was my stay.

English Standard Version
They confronted me in the day of my calamity, but the Lord was my support.

New Century Version
They attacked me at my time of trouble, but the Lord supported me.

New English Translation
They confronted me in my day of calamity, but the Lord helped me.

Amplified Bible
They confronted me in the day of my disaster, But the LORD was my support.

New American Standard Bible
They confronted me in the day of my disaster, But the LORD was my support.

World English Bible
They came on me in the day of my calamity, But Yahweh was my support.

Geneva Bible (1587)
They preuented me in the day of my calamitie: but the Lord was my stay.

Legacy Standard Bible
They confronted me in the day of my disaster,But Yahweh was my support.

Berean Standard Bible
They confronted me in my day of calamity, but the LORD was my support.

Contemporary English Version
On the day disaster struck, they came and attacked, but you defended me.

Complete Jewish Bible
he rescued me from my powerful enemy, from those who hated me, for they were stronger than I.

Easy-to-Read Version
They attacked me in my time of trouble, but the Lord was there to support me.

George Lamsa Translation
They confronted me in the day of my extremity, but the LORD was my deliverer.

Good News Translation
When I was in trouble, they attacked me, but the Lord protected me.

Lexham English Bible
They confronted me on the day of disaster, but Yahweh was my support.

Literal Translation
They went before my face in my day of calamity, but Jehovah was my support.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
They preuented me in the tyme of my trouble, but ye LORDE was my defence.

American Standard Version
They came upon me in the day of my calamity; But Jehovah was my stay.

Bible in Basic English
They came on me in the day of my trouble; but the Lord was my support.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
He delivered me from mine enemy most strong, and from them that hated me, for they were too mighty for me.

King James Version (1611)
They preuented me in the day of my calamitie: but the Lord was my stay.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
They preuented me in the day of my trouble: but God was vnto me a sure stay.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
They prevented me in the day of mine affliction: but the Lord was my stay against them.

English Revised Version
They came upon me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He delyuerede me fro my strongeste enemyes; and fro hem that hatiden me, fro thei weren coumfortid on me.

Update Bible Version
They came on me in the day of my calamity; But Yahweh was my stay.

Webster's Bible Translation
They attacked me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.

New King James Version
They confronted me in the day of my calamity, But the LORD was my support.

New Living Translation
They attacked me at a moment when I was in distress, but the Lord supported me.

New Life Bible
They stood against me in the day of my trouble. But the Lord was my strength.

New Revised Standard
They confronted me in the day of my calamity; but the Lord was my support.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
They confronted me, in the day of my necessity, Then became Yahweh my stay:

Douay-Rheims Bible
(17-19) They prevented me in the day of my affliction: and the Lord became my protector.

Revised Standard Version
They came upon me in the day of my calamity; but the LORD was my stay.

Young's Literal Translation
They go before me in a day of my calamity And Jehovah is for a support to me.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
They confronted me in the day of my calamity, But the Lord was my stay.

Contextual Overview

¹

To the chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David, the servant of Jehovah, who spoke to Jehovah the words of this song in the day that Jehovah had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies and out of the hand of Saul. And he said,

I will love thee, O Jehovah, my strength. ² Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I will trust; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower. ³ I will call upon Jehovah, who is to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies. ⁴ The bands of death encompassed me, and torrents of Belial made me afraid. ⁵ The bands of Sheol surrounded me, the cords of death encountered me. ⁶ In my distress I called upon Jehovah, and I cried out to my God; he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, into his ears. ⁷ Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains trembled and shook, because he was wroth. ⁸ There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals burned forth from it. ⁹ And he bowed the heavens, and came down; and darkness was under his feet. ¹⁰ And he rode upon a cherub and did fly; yea, he flew fast upon the wings of the wind.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

me in: Deuteronomy 32:35, 2 Samuel 22:19, Jeremiah 18:17, Obadiah 1:10-14, Zechariah 1:15

but: Psalms 46:1, Psalms 46:2, Psalms 46:11, 1 Samuel 30:6

Reciprocal: Psalms 4:1 - thou Psalms 21:3 - preventest Psalms 118:13 - General Psalms 119:56 - because

Cross-References

Genesis 18:2
And he lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, three men standing near him. And when he saw [them], he ran to meet them from the tent-door, and bowed himself to the earth,

Genesis 18:3
and said, Lord, if now I have found favour in thine eyes, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant.

Genesis 18:17
And Jehovah said, Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing?

Genesis 18:18
Since Abraham shall indeed become a great and mighty nation; and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him.

Genesis 18:25
Far be it from thee to do so, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that the righteous should be as the wicked—far be it from thee! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?

Genesis 18:26
And Jehovah said, If I find at Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will forgive all the place for their sakes.

Genesis 26:4
And I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and unto thy seed will I give all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth bless themselves—

Psalms 72:17
His name shall endure for ever; his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and [men] shall bless themselves in him; all nations shall call him blessed.

Galatians 3:8
and the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the nations on the principle of faith, announced beforehand the glad tidings to Abraham: In thee all the nations shall be blessed.

Galatians 3:14
that the blessing of Abraham might come to the nations in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They prevented me in the day of my calamity,.... Referring to the times of his distress in the garden and upon the cross; the time of his sufferings and death, which was a dark and cloudy day, as the word x used suggests, both in a literal and in a spiritual sense; and when the day and hour was come, fixed and determined by the will of God, then his enemies, though not before, met him, laid hold on him, were too mighty for him, condemned, crucified, and insulted him;

but the Lord was my stay; or staff, on whom he leaned, relied, and depended, believing he would help him; and by whom he was supported and upheld, Isaiah 42:1. The Targum is,

"the Word of the Lord was my stay.''

x ביום אידי "in the day of my cloudy calamity", Ainsworth; "nomen" איד "proprie signifient vaporem vel nubem, ut Gen. vii. 6. hinc per metaphoram transfertur ad obscuras ac terrificas calamitatum nebulas, Prov. i. 26.", Gejerus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They prevented me - They anticipated me, or went before me. See the note at Psalms 18:5. The idea here is that his enemies came before him, or intercepted his way. They were in his path, ready to destroy him.

In the day of my calamity - In the day to which I now look back as the time of my special trial.

But the Lord was my stay - My support, or prop. That is, the Lord upheld me, and kept me from falling.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 18:18. They prevented me in the day of my calamity — They took advantage of the time in which I was least able to make head against them, and their attack was sudden and powerful. I should have been overthrown, but the Lord was my stay. He had been nearly exhausted by the fatigue of the day, when the giant availed himself of this advantage.