🎵WEB · Psalms 18:42
What does Psalms 18:42 mean?
"Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets."
— Psalms 18:42 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
For you have armed me with strength to 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 cried, but there was no one to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.
Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets.
You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.
As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.
The foreigners shall fade away, and shall come trembling out of their close places.
Explanation
Psalm 18:42 comes near the end of a long song of victory in which David describes how God r
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