Psalm 18:42 {17:43}
Good News Translation
I crush them, so that they become like dust which the wind blows away. I trample on them like mud in the streets.

New Revised Standard Version
I beat them fine, like dust before the wind; I cast them out like the mire of the streets.

Contemporary English Version
I ground them to dust blown by the wind, and I poured them out like mud in the streets.

New American Bible
I ground them to dust before the wind; I left them like mud in the streets.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I shall beat them as small as the dust before the wind; I shall bring them to nought, like the dirt in the streets.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I shall beat them as small as the dust before the wind; I shall bring them to nought, like the dirt in the streets.

beat

Psalm 50:22 Understand these things, you that forget God; lest he snatch you away, and there be none to deliver you.

2 Kings 13:7 And Joachaz had no more left of the people than fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen: for the king of Syria had slain them, and had brought them low as dust by threshing in the barnfloor.

Isaiah 41:2,15,16 Who hath raised up the just one from the east, hath called him to follow him? he shall give the nations in his sight, and he shall rule over kings: he shall give them as the dust to his sword, as stubble driven by the wind, to his bow. . . .

cast

Isaiah 10:6 I will send him to a deceitful nation, and I will give him a charge against the people of my wrath, to take away the spoils, and to lay hold on the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

Isaiah 25:10 For the hand of the Lord shall rest in this mountain: and Moab shall be trodden down under him, as straw is broken in pieces with the wain.

Zechariah 10:5 And they shall be as mighty men, treading under foot the mire of the ways in battle: and they shall fight, because the Lord is with them, and the riders of horses shall be confounded.

Malachi 4:3 And you shall tread down the wicked when they shall be ashes under the sole of your feet in the day that I do this, saith the Lord of hosts.

Context
The LORD is My Rock
41They cried, but there was none to save them, to the Lord: but he heard them not. 42And I shall beat them as small as the dust before the wind; I shall bring them to nought, like the dirt in the streets.43Thou wilt deliver me from the contradictions of the people; thou wilt make me head of the Gentiles.…
Cross References
Psalm 83:13
O my God, make them like a wheel; and as stubble before the wind.

Psalm 18:43
Thou wilt deliver me from the contradictions of the people; thou wilt make me head of the Gentiles.

Psalm 18:41
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