Psalm 18:42 “I ground them as dust in the face of the wind; I trampled them like mu…”

Psalm 18:42

I ground them as dust in the face of the wind; I trampled them like mud in the streets.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.

World English Bible

Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets.

American Standard Version

Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the mire of the streets.

Geneva Bible 1599

Then I did beate them small as the dust before the winde: I did treade them flat as the clay in the streetes.

Darby Translation

And I did beat them small as dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the mire of the streets.

Young's Literal Translation

And I beat them as dust before wind, As mire of the streets I empty them out.

Bible in Basic English

Then they were crushed as small as dust before the wind; they were drained out like the waste of the streets.

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Cross references

“beat”

2 Kings 13:7 Psalm 50:22 Isaiah 41:2 Isaiah 41:15 Isaiah 41:16

2 Kings 13:7 · BSB

Jehoahaz had no army left, except fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers, because the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.

Psalm 50:22 · BSB

Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:

Isaiah 41:2 · BSB

Who has aroused one from the east and called him to his feet in righteousness ? He hands nations over to him and subdues kings before him. He turns them to dust with his sword, to windblown chaff with his bow.

Isaiah 41:15 · BSB

Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.

Isaiah 41:16 · BSB

You will winnow them, and a wind will carry them away; a gale will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the LORD; you will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

“cast”

Isaiah 10:6 Zechariah 10:5 Isaiah 25:10 Malachi 4:3

Isaiah 10:6 · BSB

I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.

Zechariah 10:5 · BSB

They will be like mighty men in battle, trampling the enemy in the mire of the streets. They will fight because the LORD is with them, and they will put the horsemen to shame.

Isaiah 25:10 · BSB

For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain. But Moab will be trampled in his place as straw is trodden into the dung pile.

Malachi 4:3 · BSB

Then you will trample the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day I am preparing,” says the LORD of Hosts.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

41They cried for help, but there was no one to save them— to the LORD, but He did not answer.

43You have delivered me from the strife of the people; You have made me the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.

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