Anakalypsis / Unveiling the Word

Psalms 18:1

I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.

KJV

In finem. Psalmus David.

Vulgate

Εἰς τὸ τέλος· ψαλμὸς τῷ Δαυείδ.

LXX

I love thee, O Jehovah, my strength.

ASV

לַ/מְנַצֵּ֤חַ לְ/עֶ֥בֶד יְהוָ֗ה לְ/דָ֫וִ֥ד אֲשֶׁ֤ר דִּבֶּ֨ר לַ/יהוָ֗ה אֶת דִּ֭בְרֵי הַ/שִּׁירָ֣ה הַ/זֹּ֑את בְּ/י֤וֹם הִֽצִּיל יְהוָ֘ה אוֹת֥/וֹ מִ/כַּ֥ף כָּל אֹ֝יְבָ֗י/ו וּ/מִ/יַּ֥ד שָׁאֽוּל

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

17 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֲשֶׁר
'shr
particle · 5461×
אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
דְבַר
dbr
noun · 1449×
דָּוִ֔ד
dvd
proper_noun · 1067×
וֹ
v
noun · 1620×
זֹּ֔את
z't
pronoun · 604×
י
y
verb · 282×
יְדַבֵּ֥ר
ydbr
verb · 1134×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יּ֣וֹם
yvm
noun · 2285×
ךָ
k
noun · 791×
כַּ֥ף
kp
noun · 191×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
מְנַצֵּ֥חַ
mntsch
verb · 65×
נִי
ny
verb · 211×
שִׁ֥יר
shyr
noun · 91×
שָׁא֔וּל
sh'vl
proper_noun · 404×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

9 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

1. On the subject of attention in hearkening it is superfluous to exhort you any more, so quickly have you shown by your actions the effects of my advice. For your manner of running together, your attentive postures, the thrusting one another in your eagerness to get the inner places, where my voice may more clearly be heard by you, your unwillingness to retire from the press u…
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210203.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210218.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210228.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
1. That which he exhorts others to do, saying, Philippians 4:6 Let your requests with thanksgiving be made known unto God, the same also he used to do himself: teaching us to begin always from these words, and before all things to give thanks unto God. For nothing is so acceptable to God as that men should be thankful, both for themselves and for others: wherefore also he prefa…
Chapter 28.—Of the Nature of the Two Cities, the Earthly and the Heavenly. Accordingly, two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self, even to the contempt of God; the heavenly by 283 the love of God, even to the contempt of self. The former, in a word, glories in itself, the latter in the Lord. For the one seeks glory from men; but the greatest glor…

Cross-references

  • 1Chr 16:7 — Then on that day David delivered first this psalm to thank the LORD into the hand of Asaph and his brethren.
  • 1Chr 17:8 — And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast walked, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee, and have made thee a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth.
  • 1John 4:16 — And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
  • 1John 4:19 — We love him, because he first loved us.
  • 1Sam 2:1 — And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.
  • 2Sam 7:1 — And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD had given him rest round about from all his enemies;
  • 2Sam 22:1 — And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:
  • Acts 13:36 — For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:
  • Col 1:11 — Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
  • Deut 10:12 — And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy s
  • Exod 15:1 — Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
  • Exod 15:2 — The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
  • Exod 18:4 — And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh:
  • Hab 3:19 — The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.
  • Heb 3:5 — And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
  • Heb 13:6 — So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
  • Isa 12:1 — And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.
  • Jer 16:19 — O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanit
  • Judg 5:1 — Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
  • Judg 5:1 — Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
  • Nah 1:7 — The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
  • Phil 4:13 — I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
  • Ps 7:10 — My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.
  • Ps 18:32 — It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.
  • Ps 19:14 — Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
  • Ps 21:8 — Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.
  • Ps 27:1 — The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
  • Ps 28:7 — The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.
  • Ps 28:7 — The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.
  • Ps 34:19 — Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
  • Ps 36:1 — The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.
  • Ps 36:1 — The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.
  • Ps 59:17 — Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God is my defence, and the God of my mercy.
  • Ps 116:1 — I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.
  • Ps 116:1 — I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.
  • Ps 116:16 — O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.
  • Ps 118:14 — The LORD is my strength and song, and is become my salvation.
  • Ps 140:7 — O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.
  • Ps 144:1 — Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight: