Psalm 18:3 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

The LORD should be praised. I called on him, and I was saved from my enemies.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

ASV:

I will call upon Jehovah, who is worthy to be praised: So shall I be saved from mine enemies.

BBE:

I will send up my cry to the Lord, who is to be praised; so will I be made safe from those who are against me.

DBY:

I will call upon Jehovah, who is to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

ERV:

I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

JPS:

Praised, I cry, is the LORD, and I am saved from mine enemies.

WBS:

I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from my enemies.

WEB:

I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised; and I am saved from my enemies.

YLT:

The 'Praised One' I call Jehovah, And from my enemies I am saved.

Psalm 18:3 Cross References

XREF:

Psalm 34:6 This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him And saved him out of all his troubles.

Psalm 48:1 A Song; a Psalm of the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, In the city of our God, His holy mountain.

Psalm 96:4 For great is the LORD and greatly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods.

Psalm 145:3 Great is the LORD, and highly to be praised, And His greatness is unsearchable. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

18:3 I will call upon the LORD, [who is worthy] to be {b} praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
(b) For no one can obtain their request from God if they do not join his glory with their petition.

MHC:

18:1-19 The first words, I will love thee, O Lord, my strength, are the scope and contents of the psalm. Those that truly love God, may triumph in him as their Rock and Refuge, and may with confidence call upon him. 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. David was a praying man, and God was found a prayer-hearing God. If we pray as he did, we shall speed as he did. God's manifestation of his presence is very fully described, ver. 7-15. Little appeared of man, but much of God, in these deliverances. It is not possible to apply to the history of the son of Jesse those awful, majestic, and stupendous words which are used through this description of the Divine manifestation. Every part of so solemn a scene of terrors tells us, a greater than David is here. God will not only deliver his people out of their troubles in due time, but he will bear them up under their troubles in the mean time. Can we meditate on ver. 18, without directing one thought to Gethsemane and Calvary? Can we forget that it was in the hour of Christ's deepest calamity, when Judas betrayed, when his friends forsook, when the multitude derided him, and the smiles of his Father's love were withheld, that the powers of darkness prevented him? The sorrows of death surrounded him, in his distress he prayed, Heb 5:7. God made the earth to shake and tremble, and the rocks to cleave, and brought him out, in his resurrection, because he delighted in him and in his undertaking.

CONC:

Cry Enemies Praise Praised Safe Saved Worthy

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