Psaume 18:42

42 Je les broie comme la poussière qu'emporte le vent, Je les foule comme la boue des rues.

Psaume 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 ) .

Psaume 18:42 In-Context

40 Tu fais tourner le dos à mes ennemis devant moi, Et j'extermine ceux qui me haïssent.

41 Ils crient, et personne pour les sauver! Ils crient à l'Eternel, et il ne leur répond pas!

42 Je les broie comme la poussière qu'emporte le vent, Je les foule comme la boue des rues.

43 Tu me délivres des dissensions du peuple; Tu me mets à la tête des nations; Un peuple que je ne connaissais pas m'est asservi.

44 Ils m'obéissent au premier ordre, Les fils de l'étranger me flattent;