Salmos 18:42

42 Y molílos como polvo delante del viento; Esparcílos como lodo de las calles.

Salmos 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 ) .

Salmos 18:42 In-Context

40 Y dísteme la cerviz de mis enemigos, Y destruí á los que me aborrecían.

41 Clamaron, y no hubo quien salvase: Aun á Jehová, mas no los oyó.

42 Y molílos como polvo delante del viento; Esparcílos como lodo de las calles.

43 Librásteme de contiendas de pueblo: Pusísteme por cabecera de gentes: Pueblo que yo no conocía, me sirvió.

44 Así que hubo oído, me obedeció; Los hijos de extraños me mintieron;