Psalm 18:3
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New International Version (©1984)
I call to the LORD, who is worthy of praise, and I am saved from my enemies.

New Living Translation (©2007)
I called on the LORD, who is worthy of praise, and he saved me from my enemies.

English Standard Version (©2001)
I call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
I call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, And I am saved from my enemies.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
I shall cry to Lord Jehovah and I shall be saved from my enemies.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The LORD should be praised. I called on him, and I was saved from my enemies.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from my enemies.

American King James Version
I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from my enemies.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
Praising I will call upon the Lord: and I shall be saved from my enemies.

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

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

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

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

Young's Literal Translation
The 'Praised One' I call Jehovah, And from my enemies I am saved.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will call upon the Lord - The idea here is, that he would constantly call upon the Lord. In all times of trouble and danger he would go to him, and invoke his aid. The experience of the past had been such as to lead him to put confidence in him in all time to come. He had learned to flee to him in danger, and he had never put his trust in him in vain. The idea is, that a proper view of God's dealings with us in the past should lead us to feel that we may put confidence in him in the future.

Who is worthy to be praised - More literally, "Him who is to be praised I will call upon, Jehovah." The prominent - the leading thought is, that God is a being every way worthy of praise.

So shall I be saved from my enemies - Ever onward, and at all times. He had had such ample experience of his protection that he could confide in him as one who would deliver him from all his foes.


Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

I will call upon the Lord - When he was conscious that the object of his worship was such as he has pointed out in the above nine particulars, it is no wonder that he resolves to call upon him; and no wonder that he expects, in consequence, to be saved from his enemies; for who can destroy him whom such a God undertakes to save?


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

I will call upon the Lord,.... In prayer, for fresh mercies, and further appearances of himself, and discoveries of his grace and favour;

who is worthy to be praised; for the perfections of his nature, the works of his hands, his providential goodness, and more especially for his covenant grace and blessings in Christ. The Targum is,

"in praise, or with an hymn, I pray before the Lord;''

agreeably to the rule the apostle gives, Philippians 4:6; and this prayer was a prayer of faith, as follows;

so shall I be saved from mine enemies: which was founded upon past experience of God's goodness to him in distress, when he called upon him, as the next words show.


Geneva Study Bible

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.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

3. to be praised-for past favors, and worthy of confidence.


Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

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.


Psalm 34:6 This poor man called, and the LORD heard him; he saved him out of all his troubles.
Psalm 48:1 A song. A psalm of the Sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and most worthy of praise, in the city of our God, his holy mountain.
Psalm 96:4 For great is the LORD and most worthy of praise; he is to be feared above all gods.
Psalm 113:3 From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets, the name of the LORD is to be praised.
Psalm 145:3 Great is the LORD and most worthy of praise; his greatness no one can fathom.

Cry Enemies Praise Praised Safe Saved Worthy


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

I will Ps 5:2,3 28:1,2 55:16 62:8 2Sa 22:4 Php 4:6,7

who Ps 65:1,2 76:4 Ne 9:5 Re 4:11 5:12-14

so shall Ps 50:15 91:15 Lu 1:71 Ac 2:21 Ro 8:31-39

Psalms Chapter 18 Verse 3

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