Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Then I beat them small as the dust of the earth. I crushed them as the mire of the streets, and spread them abroad.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.
Holman Bible
I crush them and trample them like mud in the streets.
International Standard Version
I pulverized them to powder, like the dust of the earth; I crushed them, stomping on them like mud on a street.
American Standard Version
Then did I beat them small as the dust of the earth, I did crush them as the mire of the streets, and did spread them abroad.
Amplified
“Then I beat them as [small as] the dust of the earth;
I crushed and stamped them as the mire (dirt, mud) of the streets.
Bible in Basic English
Then they were crushed as small as the dust of the earth, stamped down under my feet like the waste of the streets.
Darby Translation
And I did beat them small as the dust of the earth, I trod them as the mire of the streets; I stamped upon them.
Julia Smith Translation
And I will rub them as the dust of the earth: As the mire of the streets I will stamp them, I will beat them:
King James 2000
Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I beat them fine, like the dust of the earth; like the mire of the streets, I crushed them, I stamped them down.
Modern King James verseion
Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I stamped them like the mire of the streets and spread them out.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And I will beat them as small as the dust of the earth, and will stamp them as the dirt of the street, and will spread them abroad.
NET Bible
I grind them as fine as the dust of the ground; I crush them and stomp on them like clay in the streets.
New Heart English Bible
Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth. I crushed them as the mire of the streets, and spread them abroad.
The Emphasized Bible
Then did I beat them in pieces, like the dust of the earth, - like the clay of the lanes, did I crush them, stamp them down.
Webster
Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I stamped them as the mire of the street, and spread them abroad.
World English Bible
Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth. I crushed them as the mire of the streets, and spread them abroad.
Youngs Literal Translation
And I beat them as dust of the earth, As mire of the streets I beat them small -- I spread them out!
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Word Count of 20 Translations in 2 Samuel 22:43
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Victory Song Of David
42 They looked, but there was none to save; even to LORD, but he did not answer them. 43 Then I beat them small as the dust of the earth. I crushed them as the mire of the streets, and spread them abroad. 44 Thou have also delivered me from the strivings of my people. Thou have kept me to be the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.
Cross References
Micah 7:10
Then my enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her who said to me, Where is LORD thy God? My eyes shall see [my desire] upon her. Now she shall be trodden down as the mire of the streets.
Isaiah 10:6
I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people of my wrath. I will give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
2 Kings 13:7
For he did not leave to Jehoahaz of the people except fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen, for the king of Syria destroyed them, and made them like the dust in threshing.
Zechariah 10:5
And they shall be as mighty men, treading down [their enemies] in the mire of the streets in the battle. And they shall fight, because LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.
Deuteronomy 32:26
I said, I would scatter them afar, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men,
Psalm 18:42
Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets.
Psalm 35:5
Let them be as chaff before the wind, and the agent of LORD driving [them] on.
Isaiah 26:15
Thou have increased the nation, O LORD, thou have increased the nation. Thou are glorified. Thou have enlarged all the borders of the land.
Daniel 2:35
Then the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, was broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors. And the wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them. And the sto
Zechariah 2:6
Ho, ho, flee from the land of the north, says LORD. For I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heavens, says LORD.
Malachi 4:1
For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace, and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, shall be stubble. And the day that comes shall burn them up, says LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Luke 21:24
And they will fall by the jaw of the sword, and will be led away captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.