Psalms 18:18

Myles Coverdale Bible

They preuented me in the tyme of my trouble, but ye LORDE was my defence.

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.

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

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.

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 I wil loue the (o LORDE) my stregth. The LORDE is my sucor, my refuge, my Sauior: my god, my helper i who I trust: my buckler, ye horne of my health, & my proteccio. ² I wil prayse ye LORDE & call vpon him, so shal I be safe fro myne enemies. ³ The sorowes of death copassed me, & the brokes of vngodlynes made me afrayed. ⁴ The paynes of hell came aboute me, the snares of death toke holde vpo me. ⁵ Yet in my trouble I called vpo the LORDE, & coplayned vnto my God. ⁶ So he herde my voyce out off his holy teple, & my coplaynte came before hi, yee eue into his eares. ⁷ The the earth trembled & quaked, the very foudacios of the hilles shoke & were remoued, because he was wrothe. ⁸ There wete a smoke out of his nostrels, ad a cosumynge fyre out of his mouth, so yt coales were kyndled at it. ⁹ He bowed the heaues & came downe, & it was darcke vnder his fete. ¹⁰ He rode vpo the Cherubins & dyd fle: he came flyenge with the wynges of the wynde.

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 as he lift vp his eyes, and loked, beholde, there stode thre men ouer agaynst him. And whan he sawe them, he ranne to mete them from his tent dore, and bowed him self downe vpon the grounde,

Genesis 18:3
and sayde: LORDE, yf I haue founde fauoure in thy sight, go not by yi seruaut.

Genesis 18:17
Then sayde the LORDE: How can I hyde from Abraham, ye thinge that I wil do?

Genesis 18:18
seynge he shal be a greate and mightie people, and all ye people vpo earth shalbe blessed in him?

Genesis 18:25
That be farre fro the, yt thou shuldest do this, and to slaye the righteous with the vngodly, and that the righteous shulde be as the vngodly. That be farre from the. Shulde not the iudge of all the worlde do acordinge to right?

Genesis 18:26
And the LORDE sayde: Yf I fynde fiftie righteous at Sodome in the cite, I wil spare all the place for their sakes.

Genesis 26:4
And I wyll multiplye thy sede as the starres of heauen, and vnto thy sede wyll I geue all this londe, and thorow thy sede shall all nacions be blessed,

Psalms 72:17
& shal be grene in the cite, like grasse vpo the earth.

Galatians 3:8
The scripture sawe afore hade, that God iustifieth the Heythen thorow faith. Therfore shewed it glad tydinges afore vnto Abraham, and sayde: In the shal all the Heythen be blessed.

Galatians 3:14
yt the blessynge of Abraham mighte come on the Gentyles in Christ Iesu, and yt we might so receaue ye promysed sprete, thorow 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.