Salmos 18:42

42 Entonces los desmenucé como polvo delante del viento; los arrojé 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 También has hecho que mis enemigos me vuelvan las espaldas, y destruí a los que me odiaban.

41 Clamaron, mas no hubo quién los salvara; aun al SEÑOR clamaron, mas no les respondió.

42 Entonces los desmenucé como polvo delante del viento; los arrojé como lodo de las calles.

43 Tú me has librado de las contiendas del pueblo; me has puesto por cabeza de las naciones; pueblo que yo no conocía me sirve.

44 Al oírme, me obedecen; los extranjeros me fingen obediencia.