Psalm 18:42

42 Ich will sie zerstoßen wie Staub vor dem Winde; ich will sie wegräumen wie den Kot auf der Gasse.

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 Du gibst mir meine Feinde in die Flucht, daß ich meine Hasser verstöre.

41 Sie rufen-aber da ist kein Helfer-zum HERRN; aber er antwortet ihnen nicht.

42 Ich will sie zerstoßen wie Staub vor dem Winde; ich will sie wegräumen wie den Kot auf der Gasse.

43 Du hilfst mir von dem zänkischen Volk und machst mich zum Haupt unter den Heiden; ein Volk, das ich nicht kannte, dient mir;

44 es gehorcht mir mit gehorsamen Ohren. Ja, den Kindern der Fremde hat's wider mich gefehlt;