Psalm 18:42

42 I beat them as fine as dust blown by the wind. I poured them out like mud in the streets.

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 You made them turn their backs and run away. So I destroyed my enemies.

41 They cried out for help. But there was no one to save them. They called out to you. But you didn't answer them.

42 I beat them as fine as dust blown by the wind. I poured them out like mud in the streets.

43 You saved me when my own people attacked me. You made me the ruler over nations. People I didn't know serve me now.

44 As soon as they hear me, they obey me. People from other lands bow down to me in fear.