Verse 1
Thee will I love, O Lord my power: (Ps. 18:1)
My rock and fortress is the Lord, (Ps. 18:2, II Sam. 22:2, Ps. 28:1, Ps. 31:2-3, Ps. 62:2, Ps. 71:3, Ps. 144:2)
My God, my Saviour, and my tower, (Ps. 18:2, Prov. 18:10)
My horn and strength, my shield and sword; (Ps. 18:2)
Secure I trust in his defence,
I stand in his omnipotence.

Verse 2
Still will I invocate his name, (Ps. 18:3)
And spend my life in prayer and praise, (Ps. 18:3, Ps. 34:1)
His goodness own, his promise claim,
And look for all his saving grace, (Eph. 2:8-9)
Till all his saving grace I see,
From sin and hell forever free. (Ps. 18:3)

Verse 3
He sav’d me in temptation’s hour,
Horribly caught and compass’d round, (Ps. 116:3)
Expos’d to Satan’s raging power,
In floods of sin and sorrow drown’d, (Ps. 18:4, Ps. 69:1-2)
Condemn’d the second death to feel, (Rev. 20:6, Rev. 20:14, Rev. 21:8)
Arrested by the pains[1] of hell. (Ps. 18:4)

Verse 4
To God my God with plaintive cry
I call’d, in agony of fear, (Ps. 18:6)
My humble wailing pierc’d the sky,
My groaning reach’d his gracious ear, (Ps. 18:6, Ps. 34:15, Jon. 2:2)
He heard me from his glorious throne, (Ps. 18:6)
And sent the timely rescue down. (Ps. 18:16-19)

[1] Wesley changed “pains” to “pangs” in 1765.