📖WEB · 2 Samuel 22:42
What does 2 Samuel 22:42 mean?
"They looked, but there was no one to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them."
— 2 Samuel 22:42 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
I have consumed them, and struck them through, so that they can’t arise. Yes, they have fallen under my feet.
For you have armed me with strength for the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.
They looked, but there was no one to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.
Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth. I crushed them as the mire of the streets, and spread them abroad.
You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people. You have kept me to be the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known will serve me.
The foreigners will submit themselves to me. As soon as they hear of me, they will obey me.
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