Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me [to be] head of the heathen: a people [which] I knew not shall serve me.] (See Gill on Psalms 18:43).
42
They looked, but there was none to save; they cried to the LORD, but he did not answer them.
43
I beat them fine as the dust of the earth, I crushed them and stamped them down like the mire of the streets.
44
"Thou didst deliver me from strife with the peoples; thou didst keep me as the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.
45
Foreigners came cringing to me; as soon as they heard of me, they obeyed me.
46
Foreigners lost heart, and came trembling out of their fastnesses.
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