44
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.
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 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.
44
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.
45
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.
46
They will be wasted away, they will come out of their secret places shaking with fear.
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