Psalm 18:42

42 I will grind them as the mud of the streets: and I will beat them small as dust before the wind.

Psalm 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 ) .

Psalm 18:42 In-Context

40 And thou has made mine enemies turn their backs before me; and thou hast destroyed them that hated me.

41 They cried, but there was no deliverer: even to the Lord, but he hearkened not to them.

42 I will grind them as the mud of the streets: and I will beat them small as dust before the wind.

43 Deliver me from the gain sayings of the people: thou shalt make me head of the Gentiles: a people whom I knew not served me,

44 at the hearing of the ear they obeyed me: the strange children lied to me.