Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, [and] did spread them abroad. ] (See Gill on Psalms 18:42).
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By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.
42
They were crying out, but there was no one to come to their help: even to the Lord, but he gave them no answer.
43
Then they were crushed as small as the dust of the earth, stamped down under my feet like the waste of the streets.
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You have made me free from the fightings of my people; you have made me the head of the nations: a people of whom I had no knowledge will be my servants.
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Men of other countries will, with false hearts, put themselves under my authority: from the time when my name comes to their ears, they will be ruled by me.
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