Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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!
Interlinear
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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; they cried to the LORD, but he did not answer them.
43
Cross References
Micah 7:10
Then my enemy will see, and shame will cover her who said to me, "Where is the LORD your God?" My eyes will look upon her; now she will be trampled down like the mire of the streets.
Isaiah 10:6
Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
2 Kings 13:7
For there was not left to Jehoahaz an army of more than fifty horsemen and ten chariots and ten thousand footmen, for the king of Syria had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.
Zechariah 10:5
They shall be like mighty men in battle, trampling the foe in the mud of the streets; they shall fight because the LORD is with them, and they shall put to shame the riders on horses.
Deuteronomy 32:26
I would have said, "I will cut them to pieces; I will wipe them from human memory,"
Psalm 18:42
I beat them fine as dust before the wind; I cast them out like the mire of the streets.
Psalm 35:5
Let them be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of the LORD driving them away!
Isaiah 26:15
But you have increased the nation, O LORD, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.
Daniel 2:35
Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, all together were broken in pieces, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.
Zechariah 2:6
Up! Up! Flee from the land of the north, declares the LORD. For I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heavens, declares the LORD.
Malachi 4:1
"For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the LORD of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
Luke 21:24
They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.