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42 They looked around, but there was no one to save[a] them[b]
    they looked[c] to the Lord, but he paid no attention!
43 I pulverized them to powder,
    like the dust of the earth;
I crushed them,
    stomping on them like mud on a street.

44 You delivered me from civil war among my own people.
    You preserved me as head of the nations.
        People whom I had never known served me!

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 22:42 MT verb looked around sounds like MT verb to save
  2. 2 Samuel 22:42 The Heb. lacks them
  3. 2 Samuel 22:42 The Heb. lacks they looked

42 They cried for help,(A) but there was no one to save them—(B)
    to the Lord, but he did not answer.(C)
43 I beat them as fine as the dust(D) of the earth;
    I pounded and trampled(E) them like mud(F) in the streets.

44 “You have delivered(G) me from the attacks of the peoples;
    you have preserved(H) me as the head of nations.
People(I) I did not know now serve me,

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