Psalm 18:42

42 Und ich zermalmte sie wie Staub vor dem Winde; wie Straßenkot schüttete ich sie aus.

Psalm 18:42 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 18:42

Then did I beat them small, as the dust before the wind
They being given up by God, and he not answering to their cries; the phrase denotes the utter ruin and destruction of them, and represents their case as desperate and irrecoverable; being, as it were, pounded to dust, and that driven away with the wind: just as the destruction of the four monarchies is signified by the iron, clay, brass, silver, and gold, being broken to pieces, and made like the chaff of the summer threshing floor, and carried away with the wind, so that no place is found for them any more, ( Daniel 2:35 ) ;

I did cast them out as the dirt of the streets;
expressing indignation and contempt: in ( 2 Samuel 22:43 ) ; it is, "I did stamp them as the mire of the street, [and] did, spread them abroad"; which also denotes the low and miserable condition to which they were reduced, and the entire conquest made of them, and triumph over them; see ( Isaiah 10:6 ) ( Micah 7:10 ) ; compare with this ( 2 Samuel 12:31 ) .

Psalm 18:42 In-Context

40 Und du hast mir gegeben den Rücken meiner Feinde; und meine Hasser, ich vernichtete sie.
41 Sie schrieen, und kein Retter war da zu Jehova, und er antwortete ihnen nicht.
42 Und ich zermalmte sie wie Staub vor dem Winde; wie Straßenkot schüttete ich sie aus.
43 Du errettetest mich aus den Streitigkeiten des Volkes; du setztest mich zum Haupte der Nationen; ein Volk, das ich nicht kannte, dient mir.
44 Sowie ihr Ohr hörte, gehorchten sie mir; die Söhne der Fremde unterwarfen sich mir mit Schmeichelei.
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