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Psalms 18:42

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

KJV

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

ASV

יְשַׁוְּע֥וּ וְ/אֵין מוֹשִׁ֑יעַ עַל יְ֝הוָ֗ה וְ/לֹ֣א עָנָֽ/ם

Hebrew

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

YLT

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

WEB

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֵ֥ין
'yn
noun · 787×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
נִי
ny
verb · 204×
נִי
ny
verb · 325×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
שִׁוַּ֖עְתִּי
shv'ty
verb · 21×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Sam 30:17 — And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.
  • 2Kgs 13:7 — Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.
  • Isa 10:6 — I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the street
  • Isa 41:15 — Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
  • Mic 7:10 — Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.
  • Ps 2:1 — Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
  • Ps 108:13 — Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
  • Zech 10:5 — And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confoun
  • Zech 10:5 — And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confoun