3 I called to the Lord, who is worthy of praise, and I have been saved from my enemies.
3 I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
3 I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies.
3 I sing to God, the Praise-Lofty, and find myself safe and saved.
3 I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised; So shall I be saved from my enemies.
3 I called on the Lord, who is worthy of praise, and he saved me from my enemies.
481 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
481 Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised in the city of our God! His holy mountain,
481 God majestic, praise abounds in our God-city! His sacred mountain,
481 A Song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised In the city of our God, In His holy mountain.
481 How great is the Lord, how deserving of praise, in the city of our God, which sits on his holy mountain!
(Read Psalm 48:1-7)
Jerusalem is the city of our God: none on earth render him due honour except the citizens of the spiritual Jerusalem. Happy the kingdom, the city, the family, the heart, in which God is great, in which he is all. There God is known. The clearer discoveries are made to us of the Lord and his greatness, the more it is expected that we should abound in his praises. The earth is, by sin, covered with deformity, therefore justly might that spot of ground, which was beautified with holiness, be called the joy of the whole earth; that which the whole earth has reason to rejoice in, that God would thus in very deed dwell with man upon the earth. The kings of the earth were afraid of it. Nothing in nature can more fitly represent the overthrow of heathenism by the Spirit of the gospel, than the wreck of a fleet in a storm. Both are by the mighty power of the Lord.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 18:3
Commentary on Psalm 18:1-19
(Read Psalm 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, Hebrews 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.