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Psalm 18

Psa. 18:18 KJV (With Strong’s)

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They prevented
qadam (Hebrew #6923)
to project (one self), i.e. precede; hence, to anticipate, hasten, meet (usually for help)
KJV usage: come (go, (flee)) before, + disappoint, meet, prevent.
Pronounce: kaw-dam'
Origin: a primitive root
me in the day
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
of my calamity
'eyd (Hebrew #343)
oppression; by implication misfortune, ruin
KJV usage: calamity, destruction.
Pronounce: ade
Origin: from the same as 181 (in the sense of bending down)
: butf the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
was my stay
mish`en (Hebrew #4937)
from 8172; a support (concretely), i.e. (figuratively) a protector or sustenance
KJV usage: stay.
Pronounce: mish-ane'
Origin: or mishtan {mish-awn'}
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1 Sam. 30:6• 6And David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him; for the soul of all the people was embittered, every man because of his sons and because of his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Jehovah his God. (1 Sam. 30:6)
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Psa. 3:1‑5• 1A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. Jehovah, how many are they that trouble me, many they that rise up against me!
 2Many say of my soul, There is no salvation for him in God. Selah.
 3But thou, Jehovah, art a shield about me; my glory, and the lifter up of my head.
 4With my voice will I call to Jehovah, and he will answer me from the hill of his holiness. Selah.
 5I laid me down and slept; I awaked, for Jehovah sustaineth me. (Psa. 3:1‑5)

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Cross References

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Deut. 32:35• 35Vengeance is mine, and recompense, For the time when their foot shall slip. For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things that shall come upon them make haste. (Deut. 32:35)
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2 Sam. 22:19• 19They encountered me in the day of my calamity; But Jehovah was my stay. (2 Sam. 22:19)
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Jer. 18:17• 17As with an east wind will I scatter them before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity. (Jer. 18:17)
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Obad. 10‑14• 10Because of violence against thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
 11In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away captive his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.
 12But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day of his disaster; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; nor have opened wide thy mouth in the day of distress.
 13Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity, nor have looked, even thou, on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither shouldest thou have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity;
 14and thou shouldest not have stood on the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape, nor have delivered up those remaining of him in the day of distress. (Obad. 10‑14)
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Zech. 1:15• 15and I am wroth exceedingly with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little wroth, and they helped forward the affliction. (Zech. 1:15)
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Psa. 46:1‑2,11• 1To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. On Alamoth. A song. God is our refuge and strength, a help in distresses, very readily found.
 2Therefore will we not fear though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the heart of the seas;
 11Jehovah of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our high fortress. Selah. (Psa. 46:1‑2,11)
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1 Sam. 30:6• 6And David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him; for the soul of all the people was embittered, every man because of his sons and because of his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Jehovah his God. (1 Sam. 30:6)

J. N. Darby Translation

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