Salmi 18:42

42 Io li ho tritati come polvere esposta al vento, li ho spazzati via come il fango delle strade.

Salmi 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 ) .

Salmi 18:42 In-Context

40 hai fatto voltar le spalle davanti a me ai miei nemici, e ho distrutto quelli che m’odiavano.

41 Hanno gridato, ma non vi fu chi li salvasse; hanno gridato all’Eterno, ma egli non rispose loro.

42 Io li ho tritati come polvere esposta al vento, li ho spazzati via come il fango delle strade.

43 Tu m’hai liberato dalle dissensioni del popolo, m’hai costituito capo di nazioni; un popolo che non conoscevo mi e stato sottoposto.

44 Al solo udir parlare di me, m’hanno ubbidito; i figli degli stranieri m’hanno reso omaggio.