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Psalms 18:42
Psalms 18:42 is verse 42 of Psalms chapter 18, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
I ground them as dust in the face of the wind; I trampled them like mud in the streets.
Some Hebrew manuscripts, LXX, and Syriac (see also 2 Samuel 22:43); MT I poured them out
King James Version
Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
World English Bible
Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets.
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Psalms 18:40–44 · Berean Standard Bible
40 You have made my enemies retreat before me; I put an end to those who hated me.
41 They cried for help, but there was no one to save them— to the LORD, but He did not answer.
42 I ground them as dust in the face of the wind; I trampled them like mud in the streets.
43 You have delivered me from the strife of the people; You have made me the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.
44 When they hear me, they obey me; foreigners cower before me.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 50:22Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
2 Kings 13:7Jehoahaz had no army left, except fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers, because the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.
Isaiah 41:2Who has aroused one from the east and called him to his feet in righteousness ? He hands nations over to him and subdues kings before him. He turns them to dust with his sword, to windblown chaff with his bow.
Isaiah 41:15Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.
Isaiah 41:16You will winnow them, and a wind will carry them away; a gale will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the LORD; you will glory in the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 10:6I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
Isaiah 25:10For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain. But Moab will be trampled in his place as straw is trodden into the dung pile.
Zechariah 10:5They will be like mighty men in battle, trampling the enemy in the mire of the streets. They will fight because the LORD is with them, and they will put the horsemen to shame.
Malachi 4:3Then you will trample the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day I am preparing,” says the LORD of Hosts.