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42 And I ground them like dust in the wind,[a]
I emptied them[b] out like mud of the streets.
43 You rescued me from strife with people;
you set me as head (over) nations.
People I did not know served me;
44 as soon as they heard,[c] they obeyed me.
The children of a foreign land feigned obedience before me.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 18:42 Literally “on the face of the wind”
  2. Psalm 18:42 Many Hebrew manuscripts, the LXX, Syriac, and 2 Sam 22:43 read “I crushed them”
  3. Psalm 18:44 Literally “hearing of ear”