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42 (41) “They cried out, but there was no one to help,
even to Adonai, but he didn’t answer.
43 (42) I pulverized them like dust in the wind,
threw them out like mud in the streets.

44 (43) “You also freed me from the quarrels of my people.
You made me head of the nations;
a people I did not know now serve me —

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42 I beat them as fine as windblown dust;(A)
    I trampled them[a] like mud in the streets.
43 You have delivered me from the attacks of the people;
    you have made me the head of nations.(B)
People I did not know(C) now serve me,
44     foreigners(D) cower before me;
    as soon as they hear of me, they obey me.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 18:42 Many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac and Targum (see also 2 Samuel 22:43); Masoretic Text I poured them out