40
For thou didst gird me with strength for the battle; thou didst make my assailants sink under me.
41
Thou didst make my enemies turn their backs to me, those who hated me, and I destroyed them.
42
They looked, but there was none to save; they cried to the LORD, but he did not answer them.
43
I beat them fine as the dust of the earth, I crushed them and stamped them down like the mire of the streets.
44
"Thou didst deliver me from strife with the peoples; thou didst keep me as the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.