Song of Deliverance
In Acts 16:25-26?
What Psalm did Paul and Silas Sing?
My Wife just shared this Psalm with me last night, even in the midst of her heavy trials.
Dear One: Thanks for sharing Psalm 18 with Me.
This Psalm sounds like the apostle Paul and Silas could have sung it, while chained and locked in stocks, in the Philippian’s Jail, just before God sent an earthquake and unchained all the prisoners and opened all the prison doors.
If that is the Case, what might this Psalm do for you and I, when we are stuck in a desperate place?
Acts 16:22-26 (KJV) 22 And the multitude rose up together against them [Paul and Silas]: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them. 23 And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely: 24 Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks. 25 And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. 26 And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed.
Please see the corresponding verse below, and Psalm 18:7– Notice the similarity in the wording.
Psalms 18:1-19 (KJV)
1 I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.
2 The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
my God, my strength, in whom I will trust;
my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
3 I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised:
so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
4 The sorrows of death compassed me,
and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about:
the snares of death prevented me.
6 In my distress I called upon the LORD,
and cried unto my God:
he heard my voice out of his temple,
and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
7 Then the earth shook and trembled;
the foundations also of the hills moved
and were shaken, because he was wroth.
8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils,
and fire out of his mouth devoured:
coals were kindled by it.
9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down:
and darkness was under his feet.
10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly:
yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
11 He made darkness his secret place;
his pavilion round about him
were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
12 At the brightness that was before him
his thick clouds passed,
hail stones and coals of fire.
13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens,
and the Highest gave his voice;
hail stones and coals of fire.
14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them;
and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
15 Then the channels of waters were seen,
and the foundations of the world were discovered
at thy rebuke, O LORD,
at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
16 He sent from above, he took me,
he drew me out of many waters.
[Sounds Like Paul may also have song this Psalm, while spending a day and night in the sea, perhaps?]
[2 Corinthians 11:24-26 (KJV) Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. 25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; 26 In journeyings often, in perils of waters [floods], in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;]
It is interesting to know that Paul here does not include being nearly stoned to death. Not sure why that is because it seems that was previous to his time in Corinth.
17 He delivered me from my strong enemy,
and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.
18 They prevented me in the day of my calamity:
but the LORD was my stay.
19 He brought me forth also into a large place;
he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
click Psalm 18 for the rest of the message.