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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 spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God. (1 Sam. 30:6)
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Psa. 3:1‑5• 1<<A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.>> Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.
 2Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.
 3But thou, O Lord, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.
 4I cried unto the Lord with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.
 5I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the Lord sustained me. (Psa. 3:1‑5)

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Cross References

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Deut. 32:35• 35To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: 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 prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the Lord was my stay. (2 Sam. 22:19)
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Jer. 18:17• 17I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity. (Jer. 18:17)
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Obad. 10‑14• 10For thy 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 the strangers carried away captive his forces, 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 that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.
 13Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity;
 14Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress. (Obad. 10‑14)
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Zech. 1:15• 15And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction. (Zech. 1:15)
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Psa. 46:1‑2,11• 1<<To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth.>> God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
 2Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
 11The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. (Psa. 46:1‑2,11)
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1 Sam. 30:6• 6And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord 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.